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Active Surveillance of Foodborne Illnesses Using a Novel Syndrome Database
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Poison control centers (PCCs) provide a new source of real-time symptom data that could enhance surveillance systems for foodborne disease outbreaks (FBDOs) through more timely public health department interventions. PCCs provide treatment advice to… read more… surveillance. Systems that identify too many cases may overwhelm a health department’s surveillance ability, while too few cases may prevent effective identification of outbreaks. … surveillance [2]. Systems that identify too many cases may overwhelm a health department’s surveillance ability, … -
Approaches to Prediction Models for Poison Control Center-Based Syndromic Surveillance for Foodborne Illness
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To construct and validate a prediction algorithm that detects early increases in laboratory reports of enteric illnesses on the basis of calls to a poison control center reporting suspected foodborne illnesses.… systems were developed for acute clinical care, and may lack information neces- sary for syndromic surveillance. … i.e., cases that were epidemiologically linked to a com- mon food source, increases in laboratory reports of …