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Rapid Measles Exposure Assessment in an Urban Emergency Department Using a Syndromic Surveillance System
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In November of 2011, the local Public Health unit responsible for the Edmonton area (population 1.2mil) was alerted to an individual meeting the case definition for measles in the ED. A key part of the management strategy was to identify contacts to… read more -
Enhancing Public Health Surveillance by Using Multiple Data Sources for Syndromic Surveillance: The Alberta Real Time Syndromic Surveillance Net
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Capital Health is a regional health care organization, which provides services for over one million inhabitants in the Edmonton area of Alberta, Canada. Traditionally, disease surveillance under its jurisdiction has been paper-based… read more -
Automated Data Acquisition: Data Collection and Integration for the Alberta Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance Net (ARTSSN)
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The ability to provide real time syndromic surveillance throughout the Capital Health Region is currently undeveloped. There are limited mechanisms for routine real time surveillance of disease or conditions of public health… read more -
Use of a Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance System to Improve Influenza Like Illness Screening and Documentation in Emergency Departments during the H1N1 Pandemic
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Screening for Influenza Like Illness (ILI) is an important infection control activity within emergency departments (ED). When ILI screening is routinely completed in the ED it becomes clinically useful in isolating potentially infectious persons and… read more -
An Early Warning Influenza Model using Alberta RealTime Syndromic Data (ARTSSN)
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Standardized electronic pre-diagnostic information is routinely collected in Alberta, Canada. ARTSSN is an automated real-time surveillance data repository able to rapidly refresh data that include school absenteeism information, calls about health… read more