Evaluation is a major topic in order to enhance syndromic surveillance. In May 2004, a CDC working group developed a framework for evaluating public health surveillance systems for early detection of outbreaks. This framework has been used to evaluate some civilian and also some military syndromic surveillance systems, as the French system 2SE FAG (Surveillance spatiale des épidémies au sein des forces armées en Guyane) and the UK system RMS (Real time Medical Surveillance). Those systems have been set up since the 2002 Prague summit. But because the objectives and the functioning of those systems have some military specificities, the current CDC framework was not totally adapted for their evaluation. This study presented a proposal of a new framework for evaluating military syndromic surveillance systems.
Objective
The objective of this study was to propose a new framework for evaluating military surveillance systems for early detection of outbreaks. This one was based on the French and UK military real time surveillance systems.