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Validation of Data from Medical Registrations in The Netherlands for Syndromic Surveillance Use: Comparing Respiratory Syndromes with Laboratory Surveillance
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Objective To study if syndromic surveillance would have an added value over existing surveillance systems, we retrospectively evaluated whether known trends in respiratory pathogens are reflected in medical registrations in the… read more… correlations. RESULTS Visually, seasonal variation in all three laboratory pathogens is reflected in the respiratory syndrome in all four medical registrations. The respiratory syndromes … RSV and influenza associated illness were reflected in all four registrations. In addition, an unexpected increase …