Alert system to detect possible school-based outbreaks of influenza-like illness

Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Feb;17(2):262-4. doi: 10.3201/eid1702.100496.

Abstract

To evaluate the usefulness of school absentee data in identifying outbreaks as part of syndromic surveillance, we examined data collected from public schools in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA. An innovative automated alert system captured information about school-specific absenteeism to detect and provide real-time notification of possible outbreaks of influenza-like illness.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Absenteeism*
  • Disease Notification / methods*
  • Disease Notification / statistics & numerical data
  • Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control
  • Disease Outbreaks / statistics & numerical data*
  • Florida / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype / isolation & purification
  • Influenza, Human / epidemiology*
  • Influenza, Human / virology
  • Population Surveillance / methods*
  • Public Health Informatics
  • Schools / statistics & numerical data*
  • Software
  • United States / epidemiology