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Access to and use of syndromic surveillance information at the local health department level
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Syndromic surveillance data have been widely shown to be useful to large health departments. Use at smaller local health departments (LHDs) has rarely been described, and the effectiveness of various methods of delivering syndromic… read more… staff from a stratified random sample of LHDs during May through September 2009. The survey captured information … to public health stakeholders and partners (four of 14 (26%)). LHD staff obtained syndromic surveillance information … from patient!hospi- tal records; 22 of 85 LHDs (26%) had access to a PHE. The information distributed by …