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Technical Challenges of Syndromic Surveillance System Deployment in a Health Information Exchange
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Adoption of electronic medical records is on the rise, due to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act and meaningful use incentives. Simultaneously, numerous HIE initiatives provide data sharing flexibility to… read more… Adoption of electronic medical records is on the rise, due to the Health Information Technology for Economic and … and meaningful use incentives. Simultaneously, numerous HIE initiatives provide data sharing flexibility to … Due to the consolidated data availability in centralized HIE models, conducting syndromic surveillance using locally … -
Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents
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Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… read more… measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for … measures and public health emergency re- sponse plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for … M. A spatial scan statistic. Commun Stat Theor Meth. 1997;26:1481�96. *Frank Hardisty E-mail: hardisty@psu.edu (page … -
A Novel Syndrome Definition Validation Approach for Rarely Occurring Diseases
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Early detection of rarely occurring but potentially harmful diseases such as bio-threat agents (e.g., anthrax), chemical agents (e.g., sarin), and naturally occurring diseases (e.g., meningitis) is critical for rapid initiation of treatment,… read more… various syndrome definitions have been developed. Due to the rarity of these diseases, standard statistical … various syndrome definitions have been developed. Due to the rarity of these diseases, standard statistical … -
Case Definition for Real-Time Surveillance of Influenza-like Illness
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case definition of influenza-like illness (ILI) as fever with cough and/or sore throat casts a wide net resulting in lower sensitivity which can have major implications on public health… read more… positive influenza cases based on PCR results was 9.2% (i.e., 245 cases). The majority of positive influenza cases … (1) fever with cough and/or myalgias and/or rhinorrhea (i.e., based on only positive odds ratios among symptoms); … URI/viral illness 0.196 � Gender 0.626 � Age (0�4)* 0.008 2.6 Age (5�24)* B0.001 6.7 Age (25�49)* B0.001 3.9 Age … -
The Development of BTA-Specific Disease Profiles for Use in a Real-Time Disease Identification and Notification System
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Real-time disease surveillance is critical for early detection of the covert release of a biological threat agent (BTA). Numerous software applications have been developed to detect emerging disease clusters resulting from either naturally occurring… read more… multi-year grant and is currently in active development. Due to the, thankfully, rare nature of BTA case histories, … will continue to improve and augment the capabilities of all of its subsystems. However, even in its current state, …