SurvNet Electronic Surveillance System for Infectious Disease Outbreaks, Germany

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Krause, Gérard ; Altmann, Doris ; Faensen, Daniel ; Porten, Klaudia ; Benzler, Justus ; Pfoch, Thomas ; Ammon, Andrea ; Kramer, Michael H. ; Claus, Hermann
• Description:
  In 2001, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) implemented a new electronic surveillance system (SurvNet) for infectious disease outbreaks in Germany. SurvNet has captured 30,578 outbreak reports in 2001-2005. The size of the outbreaks ranged from 2 to 527 cases. For outbreaks reported in 2002-2005, the median duration from notification of the first case to the local health department until receipt of the outbreak report at RKI was 7 days. Median outbreak duration ranged from 1 day (caused by Campylobacter) up to 73 days (caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis). The most common settings among the 10,008 entries for 9,946 outbreaks in 2004 and 2005 were households (5,262; 53%), nursing homes (1,218; 12%), and hospitals (1,248; 12%). SurvNet may be a useful tool for other outbreak surveillance systems because it minimizes the workload of local health departments and captures outbreaks even when causative pathogens have not yet been identified.
• Subjects:
  Database Management Systems Disease Notification Disease Outbreaks Humans Internet Population Surveillance Public Health Informatics Sentinel Surveillance
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 13(10):1548-1555.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Germany
• Volume:
  13
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9b37d315a3e21675bf65253f6052e9bbc091c794c9cd6ef6e2c0343d8e281787
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16748/cdc_16748_DS1.pdf
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