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Beyond Traditional Surveillance: Applying Syndromic Surveillance to Developing Settings- Opportunities and Challenges
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The revised International Health Regulations (IHR) have expanded traditional infectious disease notification to include surveillance diseases of international importance, including emerging infectious diseases. However, there are no clearly… read more -
Combining Laboratory Test Orders and Outpatient Visits to Monitor Respiratory Illness
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To evaluate whether joint monitoring of laboratory test orders and outpatient visits improves the sensitivity and timeliness of alerting during seasonal increases in respiratory illness. -
Development of an Introductory Continuing Medical Education Program for Public Health Professionals and Clinicians in Syndromic Surveillance
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58 medical licensure boards require between 12 and 50 hours of Continuing Medical Education (CME) for re-licensure of physicians. 28 states as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Mariana Islands, require… read more -
Effective Use of Laboratory Data for Monitoring Population Health
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Effective public health response to emerging infectious diseases, natural disasters, and bioterrorism requires access to real-time, accurate information on disease patterns and healthcare utilization. The ESSENCE surveillance… read more -
Localized Cluster Detection Applied to Joint and Separate Military and Veteran Subpopulations
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The Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project seeks to improve situational awareness of the health of VA/DoD populations by combining their respective data. Each system uses a version of the Electronic Surveillance… read more -
A Review of Evaluations of Electronic Event-based Biosurveillance Systems
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EEBS’s that use near real-time information from the Internet are an increasingly important source of intelligence for public health organizations. However, there has not been a systematic assessment of EEBS evaluations, which could identify… read more -
User Experience of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Respiratory Disease Dashboard
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Lessons learned from the 2009 influenza pandemic have driven many changes in the standards and practices of respiratory disease surveillance worldwide. In response to the needs for timely information sharing of emerging respiratory pathogens (1),… read more -
Survey of Pre-Clinical Behavior – What Do People Do When They Get Sick?
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The impetus for the development of many first syndromic surveillance systems was the hope of detecting infectious disease outbreaks earlier than with traditional surveillance. Various data sources have been suggested as potential… read more