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Evaluating Pandemic Influenza Surveillance and Response Systems in Developing Countries: Framework and Pilot Application
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A pandemic caused by influenza A/H5N1 or another novel strain could kill millions of people and devastate economies worldwide. Recent computer simulations suggest that an emerging influenza pandemic might be contained in Southeast Asia through rapid… read more… delays in pandemic recognition. Wealthy countries have com- mitted substantial funds to improve pandemic detec- … questionnaires provided to system operators and site visits. We will develop recommen- dations for system … proto- col for rapid response and containment. Draft 30, May 2006. [3] Buehler JW, et al.. Framework for Evaluating … -
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 … -
Translational Research for Surveillance
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Presented January 28, 2008 The following presentation was given as part of the Integrated Surveillance Seminar Series from the National Center for Public Health Informatics and provides an overview of public health informatics… read more… Group A Physician’s Group B Hospital B Hospital C HIE y Health Dept. Hospital A Urgent Care Clinic HMO Physician’s … Systems, M. Hashemian, et al., Spring 2007 AMIA Conf., May 2007. 2. Advanced Querying Features for Disease … -
Essential Requirements for Effective Advanced Disease Surveillance
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Advanced surveillance systems require expertise from the fields of medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, and information technology to develop a surveillance application that will automatically acquire, archive, process and present data to the user… read more… to more appropriately categorize an individual into mul- tiple groups so as to not limit the data utility. Simi- …