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Besides diagnoses of known diseases, pre-diagnostic syndromic indicators—such as the primary complaints of patients coming to the emergency room or calling a nurse hotline—are being collected in electronic formats and could be analyzed if suitable methods existed.
The New York City Emergency Department syndromic surveillance system is described in detail elsewhere [7].
The latter restriction is a reflection of the belief that the main purpose of this syndromic surveillance system is early disease outbreak detection, and if the outbreak has existed for over 1 wk, it is more likely to be picked up by reporting of specific disease diagnoses by clinicians or laboratories.
In any event, the difference, even if real, should not seriously interfere with the utility of this syndromic surveillance system to identify overall disease trends or provide early warning of illness clusters.
The World Trade Center and anthrax terrorist attacks in 2001, as well as the recent West Nile virus and SARS outbreaks, have motivated many public health departments to develop early disease outbreak detection systems using non-diagnostic information, often derived from electronic data collected for other purposes (“syndromic surveillance”) [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17].
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