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The Tradeoffs Driving Policy and Research Decisions in Biosurveillance
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Every public health monitoring operation faces important decisions in its design phase. These include information sources to be used, the aggregation of data in space and time, the filtering of data records for required… read more… alerting methods, we used 3 years of outpatient clinic visit data in which records were classified by syndrome and … -
Classification of Emergency Department Syndromic Data for Seasonal Influenza Surveillance
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We evaluated several classifications of emergency department (ED) syndromic data to ascertain best syndrome classifications for ILI.… with ED data. We used 6 classifications of ILI ED visit data for this analysis: (1) A chief complaint with … -
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… Number of People ISDS Sent Announcement via E-‐mail 2209 Opened Announcement 547 (26.5%) Clicked on Announcement Email (percentage based on # of opens) 145 (26.5%) … valida4on and prac4cal usage 61 Outpatient Visits Raw Data Stream Cleaning Analysis-based Filter … -
Analytic disease surveillance methodology based on emulation of experienced human monitors
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Recently published studies evaluate statistical alerting methods for disease surveillance based on detection of modeled signals in a data background of either authentic historical data or randomized samples. Differences in regional… read more… Security Technology Department, Baltimore, MD, USA E-mail: howard.burkom@jhuapl.edu Objective This presentation … -
Hybrid Probabilistic Modeling and Automated Data Fusion for Biosurveillance Applications
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The increased threat of bioterrorism and naturally occurring diseases, such as pandemic influenza, continually forces public health authorities to review methods for evaluating data and reports. The objective of bio-surveillance is to automatically… read more… chief complaints, ICD-9 diagnosis codes, physician office visits, and pharmacy data. In addition, information such as … -
Evaluating Pandemic Influenza Surveillance and Response Systems in Developing Countries: Framework and Pilot Application
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A pandemic caused by influenza A/H5N1 or another novel strain could kill millions of people and devastate economies worldwide. Recent computer simulations suggest that an emerging influenza pandemic might be contained in Southeast Asia through rapid… read more… questionnaires provided to system operators and site visits. We will develop recommen- dations for system … -
Utility of Syndromic Surveillance for Investigating Morbidity Resulting from a Severe Weather Event
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On 12/14/06, a windstorm in western Washington caused 4 million residents to lose power; within 24 hours, a surge in patients presented to emergency departments (EDs) with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. As previously described, records of… read more… our syndromic surveillance system captured 16,982 ED visits. Most of the 169 ED patients with CO-related illness … -
The Evolution of ESSENCE
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In development for over fourteen years, ESSENCE is a disease surveillance system utilized by public health stakeholders at city, county, state, regional, national, and global levels. The system was developed by a team from the Johns Hopkins… read more… Health80. 2003;80(2 Suppl 1):i32�42. *Wayne Loschen E-mail: wayne.loschen@jhuapl.edu (page number not for citation …