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A Simple Method of Using Linked Health Data in Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes a simple technique for utilizing linked health information in syndromic surveillance. Using knowledge of which patient encounters resulted in laboratory test requests and prescriptions may improve sensitivity and specificity of… read more… with seasonal respiratory illness outbreaks. The top plot shows all the data, regardless of severity linkage score. The … ratio [1] for this event increased by about 26% as the severity linkage score filtering increased from … -
The Development of Virtual Data for Syndromic Surveillance Exercises
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On 27 April 2005, a simulated bioterrorist event—the aerosolized release of Francisella tularensis in the men’s room of luxury box seats at a sports stadium—was used to exercise the disease surveillance capability of the National Capital Region (NCR… read more… (NCR). The objective of this exercise was to permit all of the health departments in the NCR to exercise … as it both is proprietary and contains protected, though de-identified, health information about real people; nor is … (NCR). The ob- jective of this exercise was to permit all of the health departments in the NCR to exercise inter- … -
Methodology for prediction of outbreaks of diseases of military importance
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Traditional public health practice has relied on public health surveillance of disease to detect outbreaks in an effort to mitigate their effects. Often the earlier an outbreak is detected, the greater the mitigation of its effects. The logical… read more… bacterial diarrheal diseases, and dengue fever as the top three endemic threats to deployed US forces. Of those … health interventions. For rigorous disease prediction, all predictor variables need to be collected for the … realistic prediction, that is, one in which the values of all the predictor variables can be obtained before … -
Cross-Disciplinary Consultancy to Enhance Predictions of Asthma Exacerbation Risk in Boston
Content Type: Journal Article
This paper continues an initiative conducted by the International Society for Disease Surveillance with funding from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to connect near-term analytical needs of public health practice with technical expertise from… read more… and modelers. Discussion finalized design of an 8-year de-identified dataset of Boston ED patient records for … and modelers. Discussion finalized design of an 8-year de-identified dataset of Boston ED patient records for … -
Dengue Fever Outbreak Prediction
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Dengue fever is endemic in over 100 countries and there are an estimated 50 - 100 million cases annually. There is no vaccine for dengue fever yet, and the mortality rate of the severe form of the disease, dengue hemorrhagic fever, ranges from 10-20… read more… permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
A Survey of Usage and Response Protocols of Syndromic Surveillance Systems by State Public Health Departments in the United States
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Within the syndromic surveillance literature there are acknowledged gaps with respect to penetration of syndromic surveillance systems and standard or promising practices for response. The lack of adequate data and evidence-based… read more… of a multi-phase study, with the global objectives of de- scribing existing infrastructure in responding to alerts … cur- rently underway by the International Society for Dis- ease Surveillance directed towards developing a … survey (telephone and email) of state epidemiologists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The survey … -
Framework for the Development of Response Protocols for Public Health Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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Although syndromic surveillance cannot serve its intended purpose without the timely public health response launched after aberration detection, the literature is very limited with respect to response to syndromic surveillance… read more… [3]. The framework for response in this study was de- signed with attention to decision-making support and … METHODS We selected eight case study states to secure a di- verse sample with respect to population size, geogra- … will help to achieve system “portability,” a concept de- scribed in CDC’s syndromic surveillance evaluation …