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  • Visualizing Data Quality: Tools and Views

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    Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health department… read more
    … with summarized (aggregated) data which cannot be traced back to the un-aggregated 'raw' data. This and the … with summarized (aggregated) data, which cannot be traced back to the unaggregated ’raw’ data. This and the … with summarized (aggregated) data which cannot be traced back to the un-aggregated 'raw' data. This and the …
  • 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
    … with summarized (aggregated) data which cannot be traced back to the un-aggregated 'raw' data. This and the … with summarized (aggregated) data, which cannot be traced back to the unaggregated ’raw’ data. This and the … with summarized (aggregated) data which cannot be traced back to the un-aggregated 'raw' data. This and the …
  • Towards a Framework for Data Quality Properties of Indicators used in Surveillance

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    Effective use of data for disease surveillance depends critically on the ability to trust and quantify the quality of source data. The Scalable Data Integration for Disease Surveillance project is developing tools to integrate and present… read more
    … burden of malaria (Presidents Malaria Initiative, Roll Back Malaria Initiative and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, … burden of malaria (Presidents Malaria Initiative, Roll Back Malaria Initiative and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, …
  • Using Change Point Detection for Monitoring the Quality of Aggregate Data

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    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
    … changes in the source make up of the reporting sites and lack of data timeliness due to individual site data accruing … changes in the source make up of the reporting sites and lack of data timeliness due to individual site data accruing …
  • Effective Collaboration Models for Statiscians and Public Health Departments

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    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
    … departments must respond to successive crises and often lack the time for requirements analysis and technical … departments must respond to successive crises and often lack the time for requirements analysis and technical …
  • Monitoring winter-seasonal acute gastroenteritis emergency department visits by age

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    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
    … AGE data, 6 provided historical baseline data going back to January 2006 or earlier. Of these, 3 were state, 3 … ratios [(weekly AGE syndrome count)/ (total ED visit count)] were assessed by jurisdiction and age group. … 21894257. *Don Olson E-mail: drolson@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. …
  • 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 …
  • 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
    … on the sources for derived data elements and tracing back to meta-data stored about the completeness of the data …