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The Tradeoffs Driving Policy and Research Decisions in Biosurveillance
Content Type: Abstract
Every public health monitoring operation faces important decisions in its design phase. These include information sources to be used, the aggregation of data in space and time, the filtering of data records for required… read more… alerting methods, we used 3 years of outpatient clinic visit data in which records were classified by syndrome and … -
Classification of Emergency Department Syndromic Data for Seasonal Influenza Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
We evaluated several classifications of emergency department (ED) syndromic data to ascertain best syndrome classifications for ILI.… with ED data. We used 6 classifications of ILI ED visit data for this analysis: (1) A chief complaint with … -
Data Visualization for Health Surveillance: Current Concepts and New Horizons
Content Type: Webinar
Presenters Wayne Loschen, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL) Karl Soetebier, MPW, Georgia Division of Public Health Paul Picciano, PhD,… read more… for collaborators! § Contact me at hardisty@psu.edu § Visit the GeoVISTA Center Website … -
Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE): Overview, Components, and Public Health Applications
Content Type: Journal Article
Background: The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) is a secure web-based tool that enables health care practitioners to monitor health indicators of public health… read more… (ESSENCE) is a secure web-based tool that enables health care practitioners to monitor health indicators of public … (ESSENCE) is a secure web-based tool that enables health care practitioners to monitor health indicators of public …