Rapid Measles Exposure Assessment in an Urban Emergency Department Using a Syndromic Surveillance System | Zendy

Christopher Sikora | Zendy; Kerri Fournier | Zendy; Hussain R. Usman | Zendy; Angela Jacobs | Zendy; Bryan Wicentowich | Zendy; James Talbot | Zendy

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Rapid Measles Exposure Assessment in an Urban Emergency Department Using a Syndromic Surveillance System

Author(s) -

Christopher Sikora,

Kerri Fournier,

Hussain R. Usman,

Angela Jacobs,

Bryan Wicentowich,

James Talbot

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

online journal of public health informatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1947-2579

DOI - 10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5155

Subject(s) - measles , communicable disease , medical emergency , medicine , public health , public health surveillance , outbreak , emergency department , disease surveillance , emergency response , environmental health , pediatrics , vaccination , virology , nursing

The Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Public Health unit was alerted to an individual with measles in the Emergency Department. To find contacts, Public Health used a manual lookup of hospital records and piloted a time-based automated data query through the syndromic surveillance system, ARTSSN. The completeness and time needed, for both methods were compared. The ARTSSN patient list had 137 contacts compared to 108 from the manual method. Less time was needed for the ARTSSN list. This automated method is valuable in investigating geographic and time-defined Communicable Disease outbreaks as well as potential chemical or radiological exposures.

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