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  • Super Bowl Surveillance: A Practical Exercise in Inter-Jurisdictional Public Health Information Sharing

    Content Type: Abstract

    When the Chicago Bears met the Indianapolis Colts for Super Bowl XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public health departments have instituted heightened… read more
    … heightened local surveillance during mass gatherings due to concerns about increased risk of disease outbreaks. … For the first time, in 2007, health departments in all three Super Bowl-related regions already practiced daily … heightened local surveillance during mass gatherings due to concerns about increased risk of disease outbreaks. …
  • School Disease Transmission: Has the time come for coordination between monitors and modelers?

    Content Type: Webinar

    Guoyan Zhang and Anthony Llau, Miami-Dade County Health Department, have been instrumental in developing the School-Based Absentee Surveillance System (SBASS), which uses school absentee data to identify outbreaks as part of syndromic surveillance.… read more
    … I 20% on first day I 40% on second I 15% on third Chao, DE, Halloran, ME, Obenchain, VJ, and Longini, IM, (2010). … (FHCRC) A Within-School Contact Network October 18, 2011 26 / 37 Intervention simulations Reactive grade closure I … 5 0. 0 0. 5 Estimated change in probability of epidemic due to TAP intervention Probability of transmission given …
  • Utility of the ESSENCE System for Surveillance of Influenza-like Illness (ILI) in Miami-Dade County

    Content Type: Abstract

    The threat of pandemic and seasonal influenza has drawn attention to syndromic surveillance systems for early detection of influenza-like illness. Since 2005, the Miami-Dade County Health Department has implemented ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance… read more
    … standard. RESULTS From January-March 2005, there were 26,383 emergency department visits, of which 1489 (5.6%) … to the ILI syndromic group. Of these 1,489 events, 26 (1.7%) were true positives and 1,463 (98.3%) were false … value [4]. The low sensitivity seen in this study may be due to low diagnosis of influenza in the emergency …
  • Enhanced Public Health Surveillance Activities in Miami-Dade County for Super Bowl XLI

    Content Type: Abstract

    A large event such as the Super Bowl that attracts over 120,000 visitors to an area within a short period of time has the potential to increase the risk of communicable diseases and environmental hazards in a community in… read more
    … were implemented to ensure the health and safety of all residents and visitors in the weeks surrounding the … were implemented to ensure the health and safety of all residents and visitors in the weeks surrounding the … the data can not determine whether or not absenteeism was due to illness or to the event. CONCLUSIONS Although no …
  • Use of Epidemiological Knowledge to Create Syndromic Surveillance Reports

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance is an investigational approach used to monitor trends of illness in communities. It relies on pre-diagnostic health data rather than laboratory-confirmed clinical diagnoses. Its primary purpose is to detect… read more
    … with other staff members, the report is emailed to all hospital Infection Control Practitioners (ICPs) and … a high alert. Each day, an MDCHD analyst evaluates all alerts and develops a summary report. This report … s te r in g B y Z ip C o d e ? C lu s te r in g B y C h ie f C o m p la in t? C lu s te r in g B y H o s p i ta l? C …
  • Comparison of 2005-2007 Influenza-Like Illness Observed from Emergency Department Visits in Miami-Dade County

    Content Type: Abstract

    The purpose of this study was to compare the 2005- 2006 and 2006-2007 Influenza seasons using Influenza-like illness (ILI) data received from Emergency Departments in Miami-Dade County.
    … season. This is particularly true among children, who did not have an obvious peak time. ED-based syndromic … tool to monitor ILI trends in the community. LIMITATIONS Due to the unavailability of Flu vaccination data by age …
  • Tracking emergency department (ED) patients with gastrointestinal symptoms during a Norovirus epidemic in Miami-Dade

    Content Type: Abstract

    From January to March 2010, thirteen outbreaks of Norovirus infection were reported to the Epidemiology, Disease Control and Immunization Service (EDC-IS), up from four outbreaks in the entire 2008 and same number during 2009. … read more
    … ec-09 1-Jan-10 1-F eb-10 1-M ar-10 1-A pr-10 Date P at ie nt s in O ut br ea ks 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 … 3 consecutive days of red flags were posted among the all-age group. The next leg up in the uptrend of the count … than an actual increase in incidence. Rotavirus infection did not appear to make a contribution to the increase in the …
  • Using Public School Absentee Data to Enhance Syndromic Surveillance in Miami-Dade County, 2007

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Miami-Dade County Health Department currently utilizes Emergency Department based Syndromic surveillance data, 911 Call Center data, and more recently Public School Absenteeism data. Daily monitoring of school absenteeism… read more
    … on syndromic surveillance data among the 0-4, 5-17, and All age groups (Figures 1-3). Coincidentally, 108 schools … 12th matched the zip codes of patients visiting the ED due to GI illness. Forty percent (66 of 165) of children …