1. ESCAIDE, Plenary session B Performance, efficiency and added value of syndromic surveillance: a critical analysis.
JC Desenclos
Département des Maladies Infectieuses,
Institut de Veille Sanitaire
Stokholm, October

2. Definition & objectives of syndromic suveillance
”Real time collection, process, analysis and feed back of health care data available prior or independent of disease diagnosis”
In order to:
identify unexpected health events
identify defined events (more rapidly ?)
monitor the impact of a recognized exposure/event
reassure during threats or in case of rumors …

3. Rationale of syndromic surveillance Adapted from Henning KJ, MMWR 2004, 53 (Suppl)
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4. Objective & content of the session
Review experiences of national syndromic surveillance in several European countries
rationale, organisation, outputs…
difficulties, efficiency…
interaction with, and added value to, traditional surveillance
performance & future needs ?
Three presentations
Gillian Smith & Duncan Cooper, Health Protection Agency, UK. Lessons learned from implementing a syndromic surveillance system for England and Wales using calls to a telephone help line
Cees van den Wijngaard - RIVM, The Netherlands. Dutch experience in evaluating syndromic surveillance
Loic Josseran, Institut de Veille Sanitaire, France. Real time monitoring of mortality during a health hazards: lessons learned during the 2006 heat wave in France and the Chikungunya epidemic in la Réunion