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While it is still unclear whether systematic health surveillance using syndromic or reportable disease data will be able to quickly detect a bioterrorism attack [39,40], the methods described here can also be applied to early detection of outbreaks of other, more common infectious diseases.
Syndromic surveillance also allows the earliest possible identification of increased disease frequency, presumably days before laboratory test results become available.
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].
The lack of uniformity in the use of ICD9 codes, for instance in assigning a diagnosis of pneumonia, may be ameliorated by grouping diagnoses into broader syndromic surveillance categories, as was done for this report.
No standard syndromic grouping is yet in wide use for surveillance purposes.
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