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  • Full Automatic Syndromic Surveillance System Using Prescription in Japan

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    I Medical services for outpatients are well developed due to universal public health insurance. Even patients who have mild symptoms can visit a clinic freely in Japan. Thus the monitoring of outpatients provides very timely information to detect… read more
    … insurance. Even patients who have mild symptoms can visit a clinic freely in Japan. Thus the monitoring of … insurance. Even pa- tients who have mild symptoms can visit a clinic freely in Japan. Thus the monitoring of … insurance. Even patients who have mild symptoms can visit a clinic freely in Japan. Thus the monitoring of …
  • Real-time estimation and prediction for pandemic A/H1N1 (2009) in Japan

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    Unfortunately, confirmation and notification of all A/H1N1 (2009) patients in Japan was ceased on 24 July when the cumulative number of patients was about 5000. After that, as all suspected patients are not necessarily confirmed or reported, the… read more
    … the surveillance results are reported weekly, it tends to lack timeliness. To collect and analyze the information in … the surveillance results are reported weekly, it tends to lack timeliness. To collect and analyze the information in … in Japan, we can assume that all symptomatic patients visit a doctor to receive oseltamivir or zanamivir on onset …
  • Experimental Syndromic Surveillance in Japan Using Three Aspects: OTC, Outpatients Visits and Ambulance Transfer

    Content Type: Abstract

    We started an experimental syndromic surveillance using 1)OTC and 2)outpatients visits, in the last year and included 3)ambulance transfer from this year so as to early detect bioterrorism attack (BTA). 
    … surveillance for OTC sales or for outpatients visit are also prompted. Further information: Y. Ohkusa …