Syndromic Surveillance and Bioterrorism-related Epidemics

摘要: To facilitate rapid detection of a future bioterrorist attack, an increasing number public health departments are investing in new surveillance systems that target the early manifestations bioterrorism-related disease. Whether this approach is likely to detect epidemic sooner than reporting by alert clinicians remains unknown. The will depend on population characteristics, availability and use services, nature epidemiologic features individual diseases, methods, capacity respond alerts. Predicting how these factors combine bioterrorism attack may be impossible. Nevertheless, understanding their effect should help define usefulness syndromic identify approaches likelihood recognize report epidemic.