Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Innovations to Developing Settings

Chrétien, Dominique; Burkom, Howard; Sedyaningsih, Endang R.; Larasati, Ria Purwita; Lescano, Andrés G.; Mundaca, Carmen C; Blazes, David L.; Munayco, César V.; Coberly, Jacqueline S.; Ashar, Raj; Lewis, Sheri

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050072

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“…[31][32][33][34][35][36] The network has also overseen the development and refinement of a series of systems designed to bring real-time disease surveillance to remote or low-resource settings, including Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, the Philippines, and Andean Ridge countries of South America. [37][38][39][40][41] GEIS partners at NAMRU-3 and WRAIR have additionally conducted revealing studies on the burden of diarrheal diseases among US and coalition troops in the Eurasian theater, recommending more aggressive empiric treatment. [11][12][13][14][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51] Last, the DoD-GEIS network has supported the training of thousands of host-country scientists, epidemiologists, physicians, and laboratorians while simultaneously investing in physical laboratory capacity to extend the return on the local training.…”

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Global Infectious Disease Surveillance at DoD Overseas Laboratories, 1999–2007

Sueker

Chrétien²,

Gaydos³

et al. 2010

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Abstract. The United States Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DoD-GEIS) conducted a review in 2008 of projects funded by DoD-GEIS at five partner overseas laboratories from 1999 through 2007. During this period, the annual overseas programming budget grew from US$1.038 million to US$21 million. The review describes the distribution of project priorities and geographic locations over the years, the types of outcomes the projects generated, and the frequency with which they involved collaboration with other public health agencies and organizations, including CDC and WHO. Areas for further program strengthening are identified.

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Global Infectious Disease Surveillance at DoD Overseas Laboratories, 1999–2007

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Chrétien²,

Gaydos³

et al. 2010

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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“…For example, the World Health Regulations in effect until 2007 required reporting of cholera, yellow fever, and plague-but only these three diseases (Chretien et al 2008 STAT. § 36-782 2008).…”

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“…The basic idea of such "syndromic surveillance" is to collect real-time data about disease indicators in order to detect possible outbreaks of diseases even before the diseases themselves have been identified (Buehler et al 2004;Mandl et al 2004). Syndromic surveillance thus relies on a wide variety of data available in electronic or other forms beyond those used in traditional surveillance (Chretien et al 2008;Heffernan et al 2004). This includes information such as data about chief complaints, symptoms, medication sales; grocery store purchases such as pediatric electrolyte formulas or even orange juice; absenteeism from work or school; or internet queries for topics such as "influenza" or "fever."…”

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Syndromic Surveillance and Patients as Victims and Vectors

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Syndromic surveillance uses new ways of gathering data to identify possible disease outbreaks. Because syndromic surveillance can be implemented to detect patterns before diseases are even identified, it poses novel problems for informed consent, patient privacy and confidentiality, and risks of stigmatization. This paper analyzes these ethical issues from the viewpoint of the patient as victim and vector. It concludes by pointing out that the new International Health Regulations fail to take full account of the ethical challenges raised by syndromic surveillance.

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“…Monitoring systems are currently been used by government and private organizations to obtain relevant data, access situations and to respond quickly during emergencies. The timely transmission of surveillance data is critical for the development of surveillance or monitoring system, the widespread application of modern telecommunication network and technology make the rapid electronic data entry, reporting and analysis possible in resource-limited areas [11].…”

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An Online Poultry Diseases Monitoring System for Nigeria

Oyetunji¹

2017

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Poultry disease statistics in Nigeria reveal a serious and growing problem with absolute fatality rate and casualty figure rising rapidly. A crucial goal of infectious disease surveillance is the early detection of epidemics, which is essential for disease control. The current system for monitoring poultry disease is based on conventional method using extension workers and confirmed case reports which has proved ineffective over the years. The poultry disease monitoring system aimed at assisting poultry farmers, healthcare officers and stakeholders alike to understand the distribution of poultry diseases and the state of poultry farms in Nigeria in order to ensure early detection and response during an outbreak. The system requirement was elicited from poultry farmers located within the south-western part of Nigeria using interviews while the requirements were designed using use-case diagrams for the representing data insertion and data query. The system was implemented using HTML, PHP and CSS while the database was implemented using MYSQL. In conclusion, the use of monitoring system would be of great importance in providing accurate, timely and detailed information about poultry disease in Nigeria. It will also help to alert disease control agencies about poultry related diseases in Nigeria.

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Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Innovations to Developing Settings

Abstract: The tools and strategies of syndromic surveillance, say the authors, hold promise for improving public health security in developing countries.

Cited by 89 publications

References 18 publications

Global Infectious Disease Surveillance at DoD Overseas Laboratories, 1999–2007

Global Infectious Disease Surveillance at DoD Overseas Laboratories, 1999–2007

Syndromic Surveillance and Patients as Victims and Vectors

An Online Poultry Diseases Monitoring System for Nigeria

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