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Mitigating data collection challenges with adaptive frameworks
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Electronic disease surveillance systems can be extremely valuable tools; however, a critical step in system implementation is collection of data. Without accurate and complete data, statistical anomalies that are detected hold little… read more… A Poku et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 58 for those challenges to define the … for data collection. BMC Proc 2008;2 (Suppl 3):SS. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1753-6561/2/ S3/S5. 2 Ashar R, Lewis S, Blazes DL, … -
Biosurveillance applications for resource-limited settings: open ESSENCE and ESSENCE desktop edition
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More than a decade ago, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) developed the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more… nic surveillance capability, which can help countries con- form to IHR 2005 regulations. Acknowledgements This … Coberly et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 20 References 1 Lombardo JS, Ross DA. … Health Threats Journal JS Coberly et al. 2011, 4:s71 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 21 … -
Florida’s ESSENCE system - from syndromic surveillance to routine epidemiologic analysis across syndromic and non-syndromic data sources
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Federal laws and national directives have focused attention on the development of more robust biosurveillance systems intended to detect events of public health interest in a timelier manner. Presidential Decision Directive 21 calls for integrated… read more… et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 44 identify clusters by the time … Health Threats Journal A Kite-Powell et al. 2011, 4:s89 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 45 … -
A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival
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One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more… Burkom et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 13 … -
Essential Requirements for Effective Advanced Disease Surveillance
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Advanced surveillance systems require expertise from the fields of medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, and information technology to develop a surveillance application that will automatically acquire, archive, process and present data to the user… read more… Department Chief Complaint Records, PHIN 2005, http://www.cdc.gov/phin/05conference/05-12-05/8A_Feighner.pdf. [2] … -
Hierarchical Filtering of ESSENCE for Routine, Distributed Disease Monitoring by the Veterans Health Administration
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The VA has employed ESSENCE for health monitoring since 2006 [1]. Epidemiologists at the Office of Public Health (OPH) monitor the VA population at the national level. The system is also intended for facility-level monitoring to cover 152 medical… read more… doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0009533. 2. Burkom H, Elbert Y, Cox K, Lombardo J. Upgrading the ESSENCE health monitoring …