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Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents
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Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… read more -
Case Definition for Real-Time Surveillance of Influenza-like Illness
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case definition of influenza-like illness (ILI) as fever with cough and/or sore throat casts a wide net resulting in lower sensitivity which can have major implications on public health… read more -
Utility of Natural Language Processing for Clinical Quality Measures Reporting
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Clinical quality measures (CQMs) are tools that help measure and track the quality of health care services. Measuring and reporting CQMs helps to ensure that our health care system is delivering effective, safe, efficient, patient-centered,… read more -
Impact of alternate diagnoses on the accuracy of influenza-like illness case definition used for H1N1 screening in the emergency department
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In June 2009, the CDC defined a confirmed case of H1N1 as a person with an ILI and laboratory confirmed novel influenza A H1N1 virus infection. ILI is defined by the CDC as fever and cough and/or sore throat, in the absence of a known cause… read more -
Technical Challenges of Syndromic Surveillance System Deployment in a Health Information Exchange
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Adoption of electronic medical records is on the rise, due to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act and meaningful use incentives. Simultaneously, numerous HIE initiatives provide data sharing flexibility to… read more -
The Development of BTA-Specific Disease Profiles for Use in a Real-Time Disease Identification and Notification System
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Real-time disease surveillance is critical for early detection of the covert release of a biological threat agent (BTA). Numerous software applications have been developed to detect emerging disease clusters resulting from either naturally occurring… read more -
Relationship Between Baseline Influenza-like Illness Rates And Healthcare Settings
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The primary goal of syndromic surveillance is early recognition of disease trends, in order to identify and control infectious disease outbreaks, such as influenza. For surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI), public health departments receive… read more -
GUARDIAN: Geographic Utilization of Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time for Disease Identification and Notification
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Real-time disease surveillance is critical for early detection of the covert release of a biological threat agent (BTA). Numerous software applications have been developed to detect emerging disease clusters resulting from either naturally occurring… read more