Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents

Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome definitions and measuring their validity is lacking.

Objective

The objective of this study is to outline and demonstrate the robust methodology used by Geographic Utilization of Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time for Disease Identification and Alert Notification surveillance system to generate and validate BTA profiles.