A concept for routine emergency-care data-based syndromic surveillance in Europe

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2433-2446

  Ziemann, A ^a   Rosenkotter N ^a   Garcia Castrillo Riesgo, L ^a   Schrell, S ^b   Kauhl, B ^e   Vergeiner, G ^a   Fischer, M ^c   Lippert, F K ^d   Kramer A ^e   Brand, H ^f   Krafft, T ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c Dispatch Centre Tyrol (Leitstelle Tirol Gesellschaft MbH)   (Austria)

^d KLINIK AM EICHERT   (Germany)

^e Center for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research   (Denmark)

^f BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal infections; public health; surveillance system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL DISPATCH CENTER; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOROVIRUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SYNDROME;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYNDROME;

EID: 84909994676     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813003452     Document Type: Article

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