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The Tradeoffs Driving Policy and Research Decisions in Biosurveillance
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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
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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 … -
Linking Public Health and Healthcare Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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A number of syndromic surveillance systems include tools that quickly identify potentially large disease outbreak events. However, the high falsepositive rate continues to be a problem in all of these systems. Our earlier work… read more… in the patient encounter dataset, same day office visits corresponded well with the flu epidemic curve. …