Published on in Vol 8, No 9 (2019): September

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/13941, first published .
A Fully Integrated Real-Time Detection, Diagnosis, and Control of Community Diarrheal Disease Clusters and Outbreaks (the INTEGRATE Project): Protocol for an Enhanced Surveillance System

A Fully Integrated Real-Time Detection, Diagnosis, and Control of Community Diarrheal Disease Clusters and Outbreaks (the INTEGRATE Project): Protocol for an Enhanced Surveillance System

A Fully Integrated Real-Time Detection, Diagnosis, and Control of Community Diarrheal Disease Clusters and Outbreaks (the INTEGRATE Project): Protocol for an Enhanced Surveillance System

Kirsty Marie McIntyre   1, 2 , BSc, PhD ;   Frederick J Bolton   1 , PhD ;   Rob M Christley   1 , PhD ;   Paul Cleary   2, 3 , MD, PhD ;   Elizabeth Deja   4 , PhD ;   Ann E Durie   1 , MSc ;   Peter J Diggle   2, 5 , PhD ;   Dyfrig A Hughes   6 , PhD ;   Simon de Lusignan   7, 8 , MD ;   Lois Orton   4 , PhD ;   Alan D Radford   9 , PhD ;   Alex J Elliot   10 , PhD ;   Gillian E Smith   10 , MD ;   Darlene A Snape   4 , PhD ;   Debbi Stanistreet   4 , PhD ;   Roberto Vivancos   3 , MD, PhD ;   Craig Winstanley   11 , PhD ;   Sarah J O’Brien   2, 4 , MD

1 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Neston, United Kingdom

2 National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Gastrointestinal Infections, Liverpool, United Kingdom

3 Field Epidemiology Services, Public Health England, Liverpool, United Kingdom

4 Department of Public Health and Policy, Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

5 Centre for Health Informatics, Computing, and Statistics, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

6 Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom

7 Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre, London, United Kingdom

8 Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

9 Department of Infection Biology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Neston, United Kingdom

10 Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance Team, Field Service, National Infection Service, Public Health England, Birmingham, United Kingdom

11 Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Corresponding Author:

  • Kirsty Marie McIntyre, BSc, PhD
  • Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
  • Institute of Infection and Global Health
  • University of Liverpool
  • Chester High Road
  • Neston, CH64 7TE
  • United Kingdom
  • Phone: 44 1519758307
  • Email: k.m.mcintyre@liverpool.ac.uk