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Rapid ad-hoc cross-jurisdictional sharing of syndrome data using Distribute technology
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Cross-jurisdictional sharing of public health syndrome data is useful for many reasons, among them to provide a larger regional or national view of activity and to determine if unusual activity observed in one jurisdiction is atypical. Considerable… read more… of recent interest: alcohol related and heat related ED visits. Objective To demonstrate how rapid adhoc sharing of … of recent interest: alcohol-related and heat-related ED visits. Methods The Distribute system was initially designed … 3. www.gossamerhealth.org. *Ian Painter E-mail: ipainter@uw.edu (page number not for citation purpose) … -
Gossamer Health: A meaningful, open-source approach to shared surveillance software
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Cost-effective, flexible and innovative tools that integrate disparate data sets and allow sharing of information between geographically dispersed collaborators are needed to improve public health surveillance practice. Gossamer Health (Good Open… read more… on summarized clinical data, such as the influenza and visit counts used in the Distribute project (1), (2) methods … open source; architecture; cloud; software *Ian Painter E-mail: ipainter@uw.edu (page number not for citation purpose) … -
The validity of emergency department influenza-like-illness (ILI) for laboratory-confirmed influenza in children
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Syndromic surveillance systems use electronic health-related data to support near-real time disease surveillance. Over the last 10 years, the use of ILI syndromes defined from emergency department (ED) data has become an increasingly accepted… read more… time of study. Results We studied approximately 14,000 visits during the discrete year and 32,000 visits during concomitant years. Viral results were … the official views of the CDC. *Carla Rodriguez E-mail: carlarod@uw.edu (page number not for citation purpose) … -
Propagating the Effects of Missing Data Sources in a Surveillance System
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A common problem in syndromic surveillance using ED department data is temporary gaps in the data received from individual ED departments caused by delays in receiving the data. Currently most syndromic surveillance systems provide information… read more… demographic dimensions (for example, the number of ED visits coded to the respiratory syndrome in 0-2 year olds in … -
Identifying Current Practical Analytic Challenges - the Analytic Solutions Committee
Content Type: Webinar
Presented September 21, 2017. The purpose of this webinar is to introduce the Analytic Solution Committees (ASC) to ISDS members, explaining how the committee works and how it… read more… Submitter name: Jurisdiction or affiliation: Phone: Email: Co-submitters and affiliations: PROBLEM DESCRIPTION … -
Systematic Comparison of Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance
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Varied approaches have been used by syndromic surveillance systems for aberration detection. However, the performance of these methods has been evaluated only across a small range of epidemic characteristics. Objective… read more… syndromes having average daily counts of 2, 10, 35 and 50 visits per day. We then simulated epidemics by creating all …