Description
Recent health events in France, such as the dramatic excess of mortality occurred during the 2003 heat wave showed the need for a better provision of information to health authorities. A new syndromic surveillance system based on the recording of general practitioner’s visits by SOS Médecins has been developed by the Aquitaine Regional Epidemiology unit (Cire).
Objective
To describe the surveillance system based on SOS Medecins data, the first GP emergency and healthcare network in France and to show the utility and validity of this data source as a real-time syndromic surveillance system.