59 Hepatitis outbreak in children 3 the process of collecting and aggregating data for the contributing locations was straightforward using the script, and this approach would work for many laboratory measurements. After composing the analysis script, updating the results by rerunning the code took a matter of minutes. If studies such as this one can demonstrate clinical utility in monitoring rates of abnormalities then this may indicate a role for these rates to be monitored prospectively either locally or nationally. Conclusion We demonstrated that rapid collection of large amounts of summary data from different hospitals in different countries for a pooled analysis is feasible for the purpose of syndromic surveillance. In most regions, there was no evidence for an outbreak of milder cases of hepatitis during the period of interest.
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