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Infection Watch Live- A Real-time, Geospatial Mapping Tool of Hospital Triage Data for Public Consumption
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To inform health professionals and the public directly about real-time utilization of local Emergency Departments for respiratory and gastrointestinal illness to enable enhanced communication and collaboration between Public Health and health care… read more… maps (generated using ArcGIS Server) and be available at www.klfapublichealth.ca in Septem- ber 2008. METHODS Design … Information: Adam van Dijk, avandijk@kflapublichealth.ca www.kflapublichealth.ca Advances in Disease Surveillance … -
GIS Mapping of Occupational Health Visit Data from a Southeastern Ontario Tertiary Care Hospital
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Health care workers (HCWs) have an increased risk of exposure to infectious agents including (among others) tuberculosis, influenza, norovirus, and Clostridium difficile as a consequence of patient care1,2 Most occupational transmission is… read more… NIOSH Safety and Health Topic: Surveillance. http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/surveillance/ (Accessed June 3, … -
Can Monitoring Telehealth Ontario Respiratory Call Volume be a Component of an Effective Public Health Influenza Surveillance Strategy?
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Influenza epidemics occur seasonally, impose a high economic burden on the health care system, and are responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality (1). The past century has seen three influenza A pandemics with variable severity. The recent… read more… Health Organization 2003;Available from: URL: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs211/en/ (2) Girard MP, … -
Cross Border Syndromic Surveillance- Overview and Recommendations from an ISDS Consultation Held in Kingston, Ontario Canada, June 11-12th, 2007
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The objectives of the two day International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) funded consultation were to develop expert, consensus-based recommendations that address specific, unanswered questions that hinder advances in cross border… read more… ad- vances in cross border syndromic surveillance. The con- sultation included a discussion of the details of … sharing of notifiable/reportable disease reports. The con- sultation objective was to build upon this work while … -
Acute Care Alerting and Integrated Public Health Investigation and Response to Syndromic Surveillance Alerts: Example of a Local Food Borne Outbreak
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To highlight the key role of Emergency Department syn-dromic surveillance in linking acute care and public health, thus enabling collaborative detection, monitoring and management of a local food borne outbreak.… health, laboratories and acute care institutions and col- laborative investigation. Retrospective investigation … -
Emergency Department Surveillance of Alcohol-Related Violence and Injuries to Enable Event Monitoring and Management
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Syndromic surveillance has been used been used as method of surveillance for various events in recent years. For example, post September 11th, 2001 anthrax attacks in New York City, World Youth Day in Toronto 2002, Salt Lake City 2002 Olympics,… read more… EDs during Homecoming weekend, which has become a greater con- cern in recent years. This information may be used to … -
Absenteeism Among Employees in a Southeastern Ontario Hospital: A Novel Application of Syndromic Surveillance
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Sickness absence is particularly pronounced within health care organizations where job demands and work environment expose workers to an increased risk of illness and injury, potentially leading to an inability to attend work.… read more… not remain statistically significant after adjusting for co- variates. HCW respiratory illness reporting followed a …