From: ICARES: a real-time automated detection tool for clusters of infectious diseases in the Netherlands
Alert | Syndrome (Health care institution) | Additional public health diagnostics | True cluster | Comment |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Respiratory tract infection (GP) | No | No | Different causative agents and coding imperfections |
2 | Infectious hepatitis (GP) | Yes | No | Non-infectious hepatitis |
3 | Meningoencephalitis (Hospital) | No | Yes | Enterovirus encephalitis |
4 | Meningoencephalitis (Hospital) | No | No | Two unrelated cases of Listeria in Katwijk |
5 | Infectious hepatitis (GP) | No | No | Coding imperfections |
6 | Respiratory tract infection (Hospital and GP) | No | Yes | Long lasting influenza season with high peak incidence |
7 | Meningoencephalitis (Hospital) | No | No | Coding imperfections/double coding |
8 | Meningoencephalitis (GP) | No | No | Non-acute illness |