Early Warning System for Infectious Diseases at the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan C. Semenza
Keyword(s):  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Early Warning System ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Warning System ◽  
And Control

Application of Early Warning Nursing System During COVID-19 Epidemic in Children’s Hospital

Nano LIFE ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 2140004
Author(s):  
Wenying Yao ◽  
Jinxia Yang ◽  
Xin Wang ◽  
Min Shen
Keyword(s):  
Early Warning ◽  
Early Warning System ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Children's Hospital ◽  
Hospital Nursing ◽  
Children’S Hospital ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
And Control

Aim: To develop a nursing early warning system in children’s hospital during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia, and to accomplish the construction and application of this system, so as to provide decision-support of the prevention and control for COVID-19 in children’s medical institutions. Method: Children’s hospital nursing early warning system was divided into three modules: hospital nursing early warning platform includes internal and external early warning platform, nursing staff early warning program includes protection, human resources early warning plan and patient early warning program includes outpatient, emergency and ward early warning plan. The data of epidemic training, assessment, prevention and control screening from January to June 2020 were collected from the nursing early warning system to evaluate the application effect of the system. Results: A total of 18 procedures and specifications were formulated, nine hospital-level trainings and about 1000 department-level trainings were organized, two hospital-level assessments (pass rate 95.6% and 98.2%), and 78 nurses were reserved, and 10 popular science articles, five popular science videos were published during the application of the nursing early warning system. A total of 583,435 children and 139,308 caregivers were screened in outpatient, emergency and wards during pre-checks, 2385 suspected cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia were confirmed (0.41%) after the screening and 1 case (0.0002%) was finally confirmed. Conclusion: The nursing early warning system of children’s hospital can prevent and control the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic from each module, ensure early warning and triage of suspected infected patients, reduce the risk of cross-infection in hospital and improve the safety of the children’s hospital medical environment.

Evaluation of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Ability of Medical Buildings in Harbin, China

2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-74
Author(s):  
Tian Wang ◽  
Shanshan Zhang ◽  
Yue Wu ◽  
Hongzhe Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Building System ◽  
And Control

Objective: Entrusted by the Harbin Municipal Government, evaluation medical building system for prevention and control of sudden infectious diseases in the city has been established. Background: China, as a country that found the COVID-19 earlier, has taken strict control measures. However, as the medical building system is not perfect enough to prevent and control sudden infectious diseases. Method: First, expert group methodology was used and evaluation index of ability of prevention and control of sudden infectious diseases in medical building system was selected; then fuzzy comprehensive evaluation was adopted to establish index set and to set weight and medical building system evaluation model for prevention and control of sudden infectious diseases was constructed; finally, it’s to modify the indicators and weights in the evaluation set and to make an evaluation of the ability of Harbin medical building system to prevent and control sudden infectious diseases in accordance with the current management mode of system. Results: The medical building system in Harbin is significantly unbalanced in its ability to prevent sudden infections where there are low indicators for response monitoring and forecasting terminals, there are high indicators for the construction of emergency center. Conclusions: The evaluation model of the ability of medical building system to prevent and control sudden infectious diseases was constructed. The model is adopted to make practical evaluation of infectious disease prevention and control ability in Harbin and to form the evaluation method of the direct connection between the theoretical research of medical architecture and medical building design.

scholarly journals Comparative Study on Early Warning Methods of Infectious Diseases

2021 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 03084
Author(s):  
Song-nian Hu ◽  
Xiao Cheng ◽  
Dan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Early Warning System ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Early Warning Systems ◽  
Warning Systems ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Major epidemics of infectious diseases will not only endanger people’s lives and property, but also cause panic and social unrest. Therefore, it is particularly important to establish an infectious disease early warning system and take effective measures in time to prevent infectious disease outbreaks. The article summarizes the relevant definitions of infectious disease early warning system, domestic and foreign development status, infectious disease early warning models and methods, and aims to provide references for the establishment of infectious disease early warning systems.

A Retrospective Study of Parent’s First-Hand Experience of Premonitions and Other Anomalous Aspects of the SIDS Phenomenon: A potential “SIDS early warning system?”

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Eric Sage ◽  
Nancy Maruyama ◽  
Joseph Hageman
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
Early Warning System ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Parent ◽  
Electronic Questionnaires ◽  
And Control

Introduction The main purpose of this study is to determine the incidence of premonition in SIDS parents vs. Non-SIDS/Control Group parents and to test for a number of other anomalous "markers" noted anecdotally by decades of in the field observation. Evidence of premonition and these other "markers" as consistent elements of the SIDS phenomenon could serve as an "early warning system" for a future SIDS event if confirmed by larger studies. Methodology Both groups of SIDS parents and Control parent participants completed electronic questionnaires on the SurveyMonkey platform for statistical analysis. Results The results of this pilot study indicated statistically significant differences between the SIDS parent and Non-SIDS control study groups for premonition and a set of other anomalous markers. Conclusion The authors believe that this pilot study of premonition and other markers may provide an "early-warning" system for an impending SIDS event if confirmed with future larger studies. Importance: This pilot study confirms results of the value of premonition as well as other anomalous observations by parents whose infants may be at risk for a SIDS event. This study deserves to be confirmed by larger studies and, if so, confirmed indicates a reliable "early warning system" for an impending SIDS event. We face the problem if this SIDS event represents the small percentage of infants who will die of SIDS, even if a diagnostic evaluation and management, including hospital admission and monitoring, may not prevent death from SIDS. However, if this premonition is predictive of Sudden Unexplained Infant Death (SUID) secondary to a potentially preventable etiology, this infant death may be preventable.

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