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Estimating the number of deaths attributable to nine common infectious pathogens adjusted for seasonality and temperature
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Accurately assigning causes or contributing causes to deaths remains a universal challenge, especially in the elderly with underlying disease. Cause of death statistics commonly record the underlying cause of death, and influenza… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance for a Large Respiratory Disease Outbreak by Legionella in the Netherlands
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To evaluate the added value of a syndromic surveillance system in detecting a large severe respiratory disease outbreak with a point-source we used the Legionnaires' disease (LD) outbreak of 1999 in the Netherlands as a case-study. We… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance for Detection of Increased Morbidity and Mortality by Influenza
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To evaluate whether a rise or shift in severe morbidity and mortality by influenza can be detected with syndromic surveillance. -
Syndromic Surveillance for Localized Outbreaks of Lower-Respiratory Infections: Does it Work?
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To evaluate whether syndromic surveillance can detect localized outbreaks of lower-respiratory infections (LRI's) with limited numbers of alarms in time. -
Syndromic Surveillance with Death Data: a Pilot Study in the Netherlands
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Crude mortality could be valuable for infectious disease surveillance if available in a complete and timely fashion. Such data can be of used for detecting, and tracking the impact of unusual health events (e.g. pandemic… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance with Death Data: Is Crude Mortality Data Suitable for Real Time Surveillance?
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Crude mortality could be valuable for infectious disease surveillance if available in a complete and timely fashion. Syndromic surveillance with weekly deaths has been demonstrated to be useful in France. Such data can be of use… read more -
Understanding the Dynamics of Gastro-Intestinal Syndrome: General Practioner and Hospital Data vs Laboratory Surveillance
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Objective Understanding the baseline dynamics of syndrome counts is essential for use in prospective syndromic surveillance. Therefore we studied to what extent the known seasonal dynamics of gastro-intestinal (GI… read more -
Laboratory Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza: Estimating the Potential Magnitude of Diagnostic Demand through Trends in Respiratory Illness
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To estimate diagnostic demand in case of pandemic threat using trends in respiratory syndromes (as input for a laboratory preparedness program).