Syndromic surveillance refers to methods relying on detection of individual and population
health indicators that are discernible before confirmed diagnoses are made. In particular …

Innovative electronic surveillance systems are being developed to improve early detection of
outbreaks attributable to biologic terrorism or other causes. A review of the rationale, goals …

Objective: Develop and evaluate a natural language processing application for classifying
chief complaints into syndromic categories for syndromic surveillance. Introduction: Much of …

Objective: Sporting events often constitute mass gatherings (MGs) featuring large crowds of
spectators and participants. Our objective is to understand the current state of emergency …

Infectious disease surveillance for mass gatherings (MGs) can be directed locally and
globally; however, epidemic intelligence from these two levels is not well integrated …

The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, the growing fear of an influenza
pandemic and the recent shortage of flu vaccine highlight the need for surveillance systems …

Automatic detection of cases of febrile illness may have potential for early detection of
outbreaks of infectious disease either by identification of anomalous numbers of febrile …

PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis,
interpretation, and dissemination of data regarding a health-related event that enables …

The 2006 FIFA World Cup was held in 12 German cities between 9 June and 9 July 2006.
We identified a need to accelerate and sensitise the pre-existing surveillance system for …

Syndromic surveillance is concerned with continuous monitoring of public health-related
information sources and early detection of adverse disease events. Syndromic surveillance …