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Syndromic Surveillance Implementation During Disaster Events.

Eyad F Alkhattabi^1,2,3, Alexander Hart^1,4,5, Fadi Issa^1,3

¹BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.

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|November 30, 2023

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Syndromic surveillance systems are effective for monitoring diseases during disasters. While generally simple and timely, data quality requires standardization for optimal public health surveillance.

Keywords:

disaster early warning public health emergency syndromic surveillance

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Public Health
Epidemiology
Disaster Medicine

Background:

Disease surveillance is crucial for public health, monitoring trends and detecting outbreaks.
Effective evaluation of surveillance systems is essential for public health.
Guidelines for Evaluating Surveillance Systems promote efficient and effective public health surveillance globally.

Approach:

Systematic literature search of PubMed for articles on syndromic surveillance during disasters.
Narrative review of selected articles.
Performance evaluation using updated Guidelines for Evaluating Public Health Surveillance Systems.

Key Points:

16 studies met inclusion criteria out of 5,059 evaluated.
Syndromic surveillance was largely found usable during disaster events.
Key attributes highlighted were simplicity and timeliness of information.

Conclusions:

Syndromic surveillance is a simple, flexible, useful, and usable tool during disasters.
Timely data acquisition is feasible, but data quality is susceptible to reporting errors.
Standardized approaches are necessary to optimize syndromic surveillance systems for public health.