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Performances of a Syndromic Surveillance System during a Heat Wave

Description

The 2003 heat wave in France (15,000 extra deaths in 10 days) led the French institute for public health surveillance to modify its public health surveillance system. One of the major objectives of this program was a real time surveillance based on emergency departments (EDs). Trials experiments started in 2004 with a daily automatic data collection from 20 hospitals in the Paris area. The objectives of this new system were: 1) to detect early all threats for public health; and 2) to measure the impact of an identified phenomena.

In 2006 France was concerned by a new heat wave. It was the opportunity for recording health data during a hot period through this real time system.

 

Objective

This paper describes the performances of a syndromic surveillance system based on EDs during a heat wave.

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