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Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance
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For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more… data available for research pur- poses) is to strip out all obvious identifi ers, while leaving in some information … of meeting participants. As a result, the participants did not attempt to clarify or redefi ne this boundary in the … Privacy Act (17), which is generally applicable to all U.S. government systems of records, and in other federal … -
A Bayesian Approach to Characterize Hong Kong Influenza Surveillance Systems
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Syndromic surveillance has been widely used in influenza surveillance worldwide. However, despite the potential benefits created by the large volume of data, biases due to the changes in healthcare seeking behavior and physicians’ reporting behavior… read more… benefits created by the large volume of data, biases due to the changes in healthcare seeking behavior and … benefits created by the large volume of data, biases due to the changes in healthcare seeking behavior and … -
Expert Meeting on Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance
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For syndromic and related surveillance systems to be effective public health tools, state and local health departments and CDC need access to a variety of types of health data. However, since the development and implementation of syndromic… read more… with the ability of public health agencies at all levels of jurisdiction to access information needed to … with the ability of public health agencies at all levels of jurisdiction to access information needed to protect the public from dis- ease. As the practice of syndromic surveillance … -
Evaluation of the DC Department of Health’s Syndromic Surveillance System
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Immediately following September 11, 2001, the District of Columbia Department of Health began a syndromic surveillance program based on emergency room (ER) visits. ER logs are faxed on a daily basis to the health department,… read more… was preferred to the univariate CUSUM for some but not all outbreak types. Objective This paper evaluates an ER … BACKGROUND Immediately following September 11, 2001, the Dis- trict of Columbia Department of Health began a syn- … was preferred to the univariate CUSUM for some but not all outbreak types[3]. METHODS In this paper we extend these … -
Evaluating University syndromic surveillance systems during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic
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Syndromic surveillance has been widely adopted as a real-time monitoring tool in early response to disease outbreaks. In order to provide real-time information on the impact of 2009 H1N1 during the Fall 2009 semester, Georgetown … read more… 7 views Submitted by hparton on Wed, 06/26/2019 - 14:06 … Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 101 not Region 3 (DE, DC, MD, PA, VA, WV) ILINet data (Figure 1). ! Student …