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Improving Local Non-Communicable Disease Surveillance within a Changing Data Environment
Content Type: Abstract
LHDs are operating in a changing data environment. As household telephone use declines, national surveys are not sampling large enough populations to report representative local health statistics. As a result, reliable indicators from surveys such… read more -
Asyndromic Cluster Detection Consultancy
Content Type: Report
Materials associated with the Analytic Solutions for Real-Time Surveillance: Asyndromic Cluster Detection consultancy held June 9-10, 2015 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Problem Summary A syndrome cannot be… read more -
Using NC DETECT for Comprehensive Morbidity Surveillance on Poisoning and Overdose
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A retrospective analysis of emergency department data in NC for drug and opioid overdoses has been explained previously [1]. We built on this initial work to develop new poisoning and surveillance reports to facilitate near real time surveillance by… read more -
Identifying Emerging Novel Outbreaks In Textual Emergency Department Data
Content Type: Abstract
Typical approaches to monitoring ED data classify cases into pre-defined syndromes and then monitor syndrome counts for anomalies. However, syndromes cannot be created to identify every possible cluster of cases of relevance to public health. To… read more