Co-financed by the European Commission through the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers, the European Triple-S project (Syndromic Surveillance Survey, Assessment towards Guidelines for Europe) was launched in 2010 for a 3-year period [1]. It involves 24 organisations from 13 countries. The project's final purpose is to increase the European capacity for real-time surveillance and monitoring of the health burden of expected and unexpected health-related events. Based on inventories of European SyS systems [2;3], eight country visits [4] and experts advice, the project has developed scientific guidelines that aim at providing scientific and technical guidance for the development and implementation of SyS systems for both human and animal health.
Objective
To present the Guidelines for implementing syndromic surveillance (SyS) systems at a national, regional or local level.