The effectiveness of syndromic surveillance for the early detection of waterborne outbreaks: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Waterborne outbreaks are still a risk in high-income countries, and their early detection is crucial to limit their societal consequences. Although syndromic surveillance is widely used for the purpose of detecting outbreaks days earlier than traditional surveillance systems, evidence of the effectiveness of such systems is lacking. Thus, our objective was to conduct a systematic review of the effectiveness of syndromic surveillance to detect waterborne outbreaks.

Method

We searched the Cochrane Library, Medline/PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, and Web of Science for relevant published articles using a combination of the keywords 'drinking water', 'surveillance', and 'waterborne disease' for the period of 1990 to 2018. The references lists of the identified articles for fu

SUBMITTER: Hyllestad S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8290622 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature