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Early warning and NHS Direct: a role in community surveillance?

Author(s) -

M Baker,

Gillian Smith,

D.L. Cooper,

Neville Q. Verlander,

Frances Chinemana,

Sarah Cotterill,

V. Hollyoak,

R Griffiths

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdg096

Subject(s) - helpline , warning system , medicine , outbreak , disease surveillance , medical emergency , public health surveillance , public health , hotline , early warning system , environmental health , disease control , epidemiology , emergency medicine , nursing , telecommunications , computer science , virology

NHS Direct is a nurse-led telephone help line that covers the whole of England and Wales. NHS Direct derived data are being used for community surveillance, the purpose of which is to detect a local or national increase in symptoms reported by callers. The system has the potential to identify an increase in symptoms reported by callers about people in the prodromal stages of illness caused by the deliberate release of a biological or chemical agent. There are no other community surveillance projects existing on a national scale that utilize electronic daily data.

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