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Detection of Shigella Outbreaks in Argentina Using WHONET and SaTScan
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Electronic laboratory-based surveillance can significantly improve the diagnostic specificity and response time of traditional infectious disease surveillance. Under the project “Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study”, we… read more… School, 3Departamento Bacteriología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas ANLIS “Dr. C. Malbrán”, 4Dirección Epidemiología, Ministerio de Salud, Argentina OBJECTIVE This paper describes the … comprises 70 microbiology laboratories nationwide [2], all of which enter their data into the widely used WHONET … -
Multi-Method Comparison of Detecting Common Events of Public Health Interest: a Multi-Site, Multi-Stream Simulation Study
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Existing statistical methods can perform well in detecting simulated bioterrorism events. However, these methods have not been well-evaluated for detection of the type of respiratory and gastrointestinal events of greatest… read more… Existing statistical methods can perform well in de- tecting simulated bioterrorism events [1]. However, these methods have not been well-evaluated for de- tection of the type of respiratory and gastrointestinal … signal extent was nearly as good as the best method in all cases. Table 2: Results Sim. Best method WROC (max = 1) … -
Syndromic Surveillance Reporting via CDC’s Public Health Information Grid
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CDC is building a public health information grid to enable controlled distribution of data, services and applications for researchers, Federal authorities, local and state health departments nationwide, enabling efficient… read more… privileges for controlled access. Reports will range from de-identified aggregate counts stratified by time period and … -
Comparing the Utility of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Room Data for Disease Outbreak Detection
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To compare the ability to detect disease outbreaks of separate and combined data streams from ambulatory care and emergency department from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.… in a variety of settings, including hospital emergency de- partments and ambulatory clinics resulting in multi- ple …