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Acute Care Alerting and Integrated Public Health Investigation and Response to Syndromic Surveillance Alerts: Example of a Local Food Borne Outbreak
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To highlight the key role of Emergency Department syn-dromic surveillance in linking acute care and public health, thus enabling collaborative detection, monitoring and management of a local food borne outbreak.… basis and a continuous feedback loop was established with all stake- holders leading to efficient identification of … terviews revealed diarrhea to be a common symptom among all ill cases. Levels of GI syndrome (diarrhea +/- other … the sensitivity of the ED syndromic surveillance tool to de- tect a local GI outbreak. The integration of syndromic …