December 1, 2014The Medical Journal of Australia

An outbreak of enterovirus 71 in metropolitan Sydney: enhanced surveillance and lessons learnt

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Structured PICO

Population

Children aged less than 10 years with suspected or confirmed enterovirus infection

Intervention

Enhanced public health surveillance system including statewide emergency department surveillance and clinical surveillance

Outcome

Epidemiology of the outbreak, including weekly case counts, demographic information, geographic spread of the outbreak, and clinical presentation and progression

Surveillance of routinely collected emergency department data can provide a useful indication of enterovirus 71 activity in the community.

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Implication

Alerts clinicians to atypical EV71 presentations during pediatric outbreaks; supports routine ED data surveillance for community enterovirus activity.

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Zander et al. (2014) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6fcb7c5d37378ac1dcdc45 https://doi.org/10.5694/mja14.00014

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Implication

Alerts clinicians to atypical EV71 presentations during pediatric outbreaks; supports routine ED data surveillance for community enterovirus activity.

An outbreak of enterovirus 71 in metropolitan Sydney: enhanced surveillance and lessons learnt

Structured PICO

Discussion

Implication

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An outbreak of enterovirus 71 in metropolitan Sydney: enhanced surveillance and lessons learnt

Structured PICO

Discussion

Implication

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