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Syndromic surveillance should thus be useful both for tracking the activity of infectious agents that are common in communities, and also for identification of new, emerging infections or bioterrorist attack.
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.
At this time, we have no simple way to measure directly the accuracy of coding or of directly assessing the effect of syndromic groupings.
Currently, this information is typically unavailable for epidemiologic purposes, although the tracking of influenza like illness in sentinel practices is an example of such syndromic surveillance.
Syndromic surveillance also allows the earliest possible identification of increased disease frequency, presumably days before laboratory test results become available.