Real-time Warning and Signal Verification for Infectious Disease Outbreaks using Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural Jiangxi Province, China

Authors

  • Tao Tao School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
  • Changming Zhou School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
  • Xiaoxiao Song School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
  • Qi Zhao School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
  • Per Andersson Invotech Solutions, Gãvle, Sweden.
  • Weirong Yan Division of Global Health (IHCAR), Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
  • Biao Xu School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5158

Abstract

This study introduced real-time warning and signal verification to evaluate the practical performance of ISSC syndromic surveillance system. Findings showed that combined with real-time warning and epidemiological verification, ISSC system has the ability to detect infectious disease outbreaks which might be missed by traditional case report system. The number of false positive alert signals would be further decreased by incorporating advanced detection algorithms and exploring the manifestations of disease outbreak in rural community.

Author Biography

Tao Tao, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Tao Tao is a senior PhD student at School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He has participated in many research projects on infectious disease epidemiology and health system research, funded by the WHO, NIH and Chinese government. He is now working as a main researcher in a EU project - 'Integrated Surveillance System in rural China (ISSC)'. His research interests focus on the field implementation and performance evaluation of syndromic surveillance system.

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Published

2014-03-09

How to Cite

Tao, T., Zhou, C., Song, X., Zhao, Q., Andersson, P., Yan, W., & Xu, B. (2014). Real-time Warning and Signal Verification for Infectious Disease Outbreaks using Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural Jiangxi Province, China. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5158

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Lightning Talks