Selected article for: "disease outbreak and epidemiologic study"

Author: Ahn, Shin; Lee, Jae Ho; Kim, Won; Lim, Kyung Soo
Title: Analysis of the Korean Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System: Mass Type Acute Diarrheal Syndrome
  • Document date: 2010_9_30
  • ID: j9m5wk5q_22
    Snippet: The original purpose of the EDSS is to integrate the number of symptoms requiring emergency care during the average year and create the standard number of patients, then when the subject syndromic patients exceed 2 to 3 standard deviation of the standard patient, alert an early warning system, at the same time discriminate between true prevalence of the disease and errors of data input or phenomenon of natural increase due to weather or time diff.....
    Document: The original purpose of the EDSS is to integrate the number of symptoms requiring emergency care during the average year and create the standard number of patients, then when the subject syndromic patients exceed 2 to 3 standard deviation of the standard patient, alert an early warning system, at the same time discriminate between true prevalence of the disease and errors of data input or phenomenon of natural increase due to weather or time differences. Also, if necessary, perform epidemiologic study and inform those who work in the emergency departments to be prepared for the disease outbreak. Nowadays, various countries including those of North America have implemented this surveillance system [7] [8] [9] [10] .

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