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  • Effective Collaboration Models for Statiscians and Public Health Departments

    Content Type: Abstract

    Public health departments need enhanced surveillance tools for population monitoring, and external researchers have expertise and methods to provide these tools. However, collaboration with potential solution developers and students in academia,… read more
    … 40 U.S. states, access to improved analytic methods was a top priority. Among the tools most desired by respondents … 40 U.S. states, access to improved analytic methods was a top priority. Among the tools most desired by respondents …
  • Discover the 2014 ISDS Conference

    Content Type: Webinar

    Whether you are planning on attending the ISDS Conference for the first time this December or you have been attending since 2002, the ISDS Scientific Program Committee invites you to discover the 2014 ISDS Conference! This webinar will highlight the… read more
    … Program Committee Co-chari Please  use  #2014ISDS  in  all  webinar-­‐  and  Conference-­‐related  Tweets   Webinar …     •  Schijven  J,  Bouwknegt  M,  de  Roda  Husman  AM,  et  al.  A  Decision  Support  Tool …
  • Some Interactive Data Exploration Tools for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes several interactive data exploration tools for examining surveillance data.
    … 4 views Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … variation between browser engines (Mozilla and IE). For example expanding tables with hundreds of rows had … down’ results . For example, moving the mouse from the ‘all’ class for gender to the ‘female’ class will cause the …
  • 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
    … ILI-s time-series visualized on the Distribute restricted website. Emerging Health Threats Journal 2011, 4:s48. doi: … could be visualized through the Distribute restricted website. Comparison of local ILI-narrow, ILI-broad and ILI-s … 1 Olson DR, Paladini M, Buehler JW, Mostashari F. Adv Dis Surv 2008;5:185 …
  • Monitoring winter-seasonal acute gastroenteritis emergency department visits by age

    Content Type: Abstract

    Epidemic acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a major contributor to the global burden of morbidity and mortality. Rotavirus and norovirus epidemics present a significant burden annually, with their predominant impact in temperate climates occurring… read more
    … pre- and postlicensure periods were compared. Results All jurisdictions submitting AGE data to Distribute … and the contribution of norovirus, 1996�2007. Clin Infect Dis. 2011;52: 466�74. … and as a composite mean ratio (thick black lines). The top graph shows relative increase for ED visits among all …
  • Using Change Point Detection for Monitoring the Quality of Aggregate Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Data consisting of counts or indicators aggregated from multiple sources pose particular problems for data quality monitoring when the users of the aggregate data are blind to the individual sources. This arises when agencies wish to share data but… read more
    … in part by the nature of the system: transient problems due to inconsistent uploads, problems associated with … up of the reporting sites and lack of data timeliness due to individual site data accruing over time rather than … in part by the nature of the system: transient problems due to inconsistent uploads, problems associated with …
  • Accrued – An R Package for Visualizing Data Quality for Aggregate Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    The utility of specific sources of data for surveillance, and the quality of those data, are an ingoing issue in public health(1). Syndromic surveillance is typically conducted as a secondary use of data collected as part of routine clinical… read more
    … faced with the Distribute system was that of timeliness due to accrual lag; variable delays in the receipt of … faced with the Distribute system was that of timeliness due to accrual lag; variable delays in the receipt of …
  • How good is your data?

    Content Type: Abstract

    Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health… read more
    … terms of timeliness and completion, and completion rates did not necessarily correlate with accuracy. In our talk, we … syndromic surveillance data and, in particular, how the Dis- tribute project can be leveraged to improve the quality … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in …