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Anticipatory surveillance for mass gatherings: a novel application of mass media surveillance
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Public health and medical research on mass gatherings (MGs) are emerging disciplines. MGs present surveillance challenges quite different from routine outbreak monitoring, including prompt detection of outbreaks of an unusual … read more… prompt detection of outbreaks of an unusual disease. Lack of familiarity with a disease can result in … prompt detection of outbreaks of an unusual disease. Lack of familiarity with a disease can result in a … prompt detection of outbreaks of an unusual disease. Lack of familiarity with a disease can result in … -
A machine-learning algorithm to identify hepatitis C in health insurance claims data
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of liver disease-related morbidity and mortality in the United States. Monitoring the burden of chronic HCV infection requires robust methods to identify patients with infection. Insurance claims… read more… source of information about disease burden, but often lack the laboratory results necessary to define chronic HCV … source of information about disease burden, but often lack the laboratory results necessary to define chronic HCV … -
Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to Disease Emergence in Isolated Regions
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Argus is an event-based surveillance system which captures information from publicly available Internet media in multiple languages. The information is contextualized and indications and warning (I&W) of disease are identified. Reports are… read more… to medical staff and one relative, as well as a severe lack of biosafety personal protective and laboratory … effectiveness of disease management in the region: (1) a lack of government leadership and account- ability, (2) poor … -
A review of automated text classification in event-based biosurveillance
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Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human, plant, and animal health. Online documents, such as news articles, newsletters, and (micro-) blog entries, are… read more… advantages of each method remain unclear because of the lack of benchmark data. A community effort is necessary to … -
Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to the 2011 E. coli Outbreak in Germany
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Argus is an event-based, multi-lingual surveillance system which captures and analyzes information from publicly available Internet media. Argus produces reports that summarize and contextualize indications and warning (I&W) of emerging… read more… neighboring states. These problems were compounded by the lack of an effective HUS treatment, causing health officials …