Effectiveness of National Biosurveillance Systems BioWatch and the Public Health System: Interim Report (2009) / Chapter Skim
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It is likely that several thousand people were exposed to anthrax, with antibiotic prophylaxis widely prescribed for those whose exposure was known or suspected. The consequences of this event included five deaths from inhalational anthrax and another 17 inhalational or cutaneous anthrax infections, as well as substantial economic costs and significant operational challenges in public health and health care from the federal level down to the community level (Gursky et al., 2003)
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in DHS to ask the National Academies to evaluate the effectiveness of the BioWatch program, to compare the costs and benefits of the current and planned versions of BioWatch monitoring systems, to examine the costs and benefits of an enhanced national surveillance system that relies on hospitals and the public health system, and to compare the effectiveness of BioWatch to such an enhanced system. 1 STUDY COMMITTEE AND STUDY CHARGE To carry out this congressionally mandated study, the National Academies has convened the Committee on Effectiveness of National Biosurveillance Systems: BioWatch and the Public Health System.
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The IOM and the NRC shall provide expert advisors that reflect expertise in relevant fields, such as biological threat assessments, biological detection systems evaluation, environmental monitoring technologies, biological assays, microbiology, virology, epidemiology, health information technology, the U.S. public health system, hospital operations, local emergency management, public health response, statistical methods, infectious disease modeling, syndromic surveillance, systems engineering, operations research, complex database management and analysis; and economic analysis.
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The members of the committee bring to the study expertise in areas that include biological threat assessments, evaluation of biological detection systems, environmental monitoring technologies, biological assays, microbiology, virology, epidemiology, syndromic surveillance, health information technology, the U.S. public health sector, hospital systems, emergency medicine, laboratory operations, statistical methods, systems engineering, operations research, and economic analysis.
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At the conclusion of its review and deliberations, the committee looks forward to providing a final report that presents constructive findings and recommendations regarding the roles of the BioWatch program and the public health and health care systems in biosurveillance and disease detection for biodefense. REFERENCES CRS (Congressional Research Service)
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2003. Anthrax 2001: Observations on the medical and public health response.
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