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  • Visualization of Syndromic Surveillance Using GIS

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    Syndromic Surveillance has been in use in New York City since 2001, with 2.5 million visits reported from 39 participating emergency departments, covering an estimated 75% of annual visits. As syndromic surveillance becomes increasingly spatial and… read more
    … the SaTScan program for much of its spatial analysis (i.e. cluster analysis).   Objective This paper describes a … the SaTScan program for much of its spatial analysis (i.e. cluster analysis). METHODS In the case of the DOHMH … May 18;4(1):11. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006;1:26 Visualization of Syndromic Surveillance Using GIS GIS …
  • Identifying and Modeling Spatial Patterns of Heat-Related Illness in New York City

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    This paper describes the spatial pattern of New York City (NYC) heat-related emergency medical services (EMS) ambulance dispatches and emergency department visits (ED) and explores how this information can be used in planning for and response to… read more
    … a severe 10-day heat wave during which 46 people died of heat stroke. However, the number of people who died of other causes due to the heat and the overall burden of heat-related … from the NYC Fire Department to DOHMH and include all medical 911 calls coded into 52 broad call-types. ED …
  • Syndromic Surveillance from a Local Perspective: A Review of the Literature

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    Public health disease surveillance is defined as the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health data for use in the planning, implementation and evaluation of public health, with the overarching goal of providing… read more
    … the systems and processes have changed dramatically due to advances in information and communication technology, … the systems and processes have changed dramatically due to advances in information and communication technology, …
  • Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing of school closure in response to pandemic influenza?

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    School closure has long been proposed as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in reducing the transmission of pandemic influenza. Children are thought to have high transmission potential because of their low immunity to circulating… read more
    … for adapting the Japanese algorithm for use with all-cause absenteeism, using data on the rate of … To determine the optimal pattern in school-specific all-cause absenteeism for use in informing school closure … ABSTRACT Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing …
  • Using a Syndromic Approach to Monitor Alcohol-Related Visits of College-Aged Emergency Department Patients

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    According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) surveillance of drug-related ED visits, underage (B21 years) alcohol-alone visit rates have been increasing since 2004 to 2009 (1… read more
    … citation purpose) Fig. 1. Day of week coefficients for all age groups versus college-only ages. Fig. 2. Proportion … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • (Syndromic) Surveillance of Birthweight, Gestation, and Infant Mortality

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    This study uses data on births in New York City between 2000-2005 to investigate the spatial pattern of birthweight and gestation, two primary risk factors for infant mortality. The analysis uses SatScan to perform normal-distribution cluster… read more
    … 2007) neighborhood variation can be quite high. However, due to the small numbers of infant deaths, some …
  • (Syndromic) Surveillance of Birthweight, Gestation, and Infant Mortality

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    There is a great deal of interest in spatial patterns of infant mortality. However, small numbers can make spatial patterns difficult to discern and may mask areas of persistently high risk. This study investigates the spatial pattern of birthweight… read more
    … 2006) neighborhood variation can be quite high. However, due to the small numbers of infant deaths, some …
  • Cluster Detection Incorporating Lagged Test Data

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    Using New York Cityís dead bird surveillance for West Nile Virus (WNV), this paper presents two explorations of the spatial cluster detection problem in which lagged test results are available for a random subset of observations. First, we… read more
    … elevated prevalence of WNV, while in 2005 the clusters did not predict positive birds at all. Using a baseline of April 1 to 2 weeks before the date of analysis slightly improved results for all years (2005 rr=1.68). However, using a baseline for the …