National Syndromic Surveillance Program

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (U.S.). Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance.
• Description:
  Syndromic surveillance provides public health officials with a timely system for detecting, understanding, and monitoring health events. By tracking symptoms of patients in emergency departments—before a diagnosis is confirmed—public health can detect unusual levels of illness to determine whether a response is warranted.
  
  Access the NSSP website at https://www.cdc.gov/nssp/ for more information about this program.
  
  CS322707-A | Revised February 2021
  
  NSSP-overview.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases/epidemiology Data Collection Disease Notification/methods Epidemiologic Methods Public Health Surveillance Sentinel Surveillance
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Name as Subject:
  National Syndromic Surveillance Program ; National Syndromic Surveillance Program
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cf605c14781e5328ad6e200ac0fd32967fe2dfbb471d188902a4ffe5ac156708
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/103137/cdc_103137_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 134.55 KB ]