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How good is your data?
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Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public healthā¦ read more -
Visualizing Data Quality: Tools and Views
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Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health departmentā¦ read more -
Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The āILI-sā Pilot
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The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndromeā¦ read more -
Traditional and Mobile Public Health Alert Communications with Health Care Providers
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The effectiveness of emergency preparedness and response systems depends, in part, on the effectiveness of communication between agencies and individuals involved in emergency response, including health care providers who play a significant role inā¦ read more -
Clinical Versus Public Health Perceptions of Notifiable Disease Reporting Burden
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The importance transmitting clinical information to public health for disease surveillance is well-documented. Conventional reporting processes require health care providers to complete paper-based notifiable condition reports which are transmittedā¦ read more -
Gossamer Health: A meaningful, open-source approach to shared surveillance software
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Cost-effective, flexible and innovative tools that integrate disparate data sets and allow sharing of information between geographically dispersed collaborators are needed to improve public health surveillance practice. Gossamer Health (Good Openā¦ read more -
Field-based Evaluation of Malaria Outbreak Detection & Response, Mudzi and Goromonzi
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Infectious disease outbreaks, such as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, highlight the need for surveillance systems to quickly detect outbreaks and provide data to prevent future pandemics. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Jointā¦ read more