Volume 9, Number 9, September 2003

Automated, Laboratory-based System Using the Internet for Disease Outbreak Detection, the Netherlands

Marc-Alain Widdowson,*†Arnold Bosman,† Edward van Straten,† Mark Tinga,† Sandra Chaves,† Liesbeth van Eerden,† and Wilfred van Pelt†
*European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology and Training, Bilthoven, the Netherlands; and †National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands

Figure 2. View of Web page listing surveillance diagnoses (“onderwerp”) flagged on week 9 of 2002. The asterisks in the columns labeled “verheffingsweek” indicate the week of sampling when the number of a particular surveillance diagnosis exceeded the threshold defined by a historical algorithm (“historische drempel”). The surveillance diagnosis for syphilis (“syphilis, vroege”) is flagged at the end of 2001 (weeks 51 and 52) and 2002 (weeks 4–9).

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