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  • Modeling Disease Surveillance and Assessing its Effectiveness for Detection of Acute Respiratory Outbreaks in Resource-Limited Settings

    Content Type: Abstract

    A U.S. Department of Defense program is underway to assess health surveillance in resource-poor settings and to evaluate the Early Warning Outbreak Reporting System. This program has included several information-gathering trips,… read more
    … 2006.   Objective This modeling effort will provide guidance for policy and planning decisions in developing … an outbreak with pandemic potential. Document … System Objective This modeling effort will provide guidance for policy and planning decisions in developing …
  • Minimizing False Alarms in Syndromic Surveillance

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    This paper describes a method of avoiding false alerts in automated syndromic surveillance algorithms which monitor the temporal relationship between a particular monitored syndrome (the ìtargetî) in relationship to other reference healthcare data… read more
    … reference healthcare data streams (the ìcontextî). Document … surveillance up to now, will be applied to gain practical guidance toward this goal. REFERENCES [1] Burkom H, Alerting …
  • Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more
    … Distribute project ILI syndrome standardization pilot. Document … ILI-s concepts and coding as closely as possible, and to document and share local ILI-narrow and ILI-broad code …
  • Analytic Methodologies for Disease Surveillance Using Multiple Sources of Evidence

    Content Type: Webinar

    This presentation is for public health practitioners and methodology developers interested in using statistical methods to combine evidence from multiple data sources for increased sensitivity to disease outbreaks. Methods described will account for… read more
    … Discussion of roles and scope of multivariate analysis Document Analytic_Methodologies_Webinar_Report.pdf Document …   •  Network  structures:    mainly  heuris4c,  based  on  guidance  from   medical  epidemiologist     •  Condi4onal …