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Comparison of Chief-Complaint vs ICD-9 Data Used in an Emergency Department-Based Hospital Syndromic Surveillance System in Metropolitan Taipei, Taiwan
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The 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Taiwan provided accelerated us to develop the most timely surveillance system1. Taipei, a metropolitan with many travelers annually, requires the earliest warningand immediate… read more -
Establishing a Syndromic Surveillance System Using Chief-Complaint Data at Emergency Department of One Regional Hospital in Taipei City to Detect Infectious Disease Outbreaks
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Facing public health threats of bioterrorism and emerging infectious diseases (EID), the traditional passive surveillance system is not efficient and outmoded. Evidences reveal that several newly developed syndromic surveillance… read more -
Increasing Mild Enterovirus Cases Provides An Important Signal of Up-coming Trends in Elevating Severe Enterovirus Cases
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In July 2012, the 54 children infected with enterovirus-71(EV71) were died in Cambodia. The media called it as mystery illness and made Asian parents worried. In fact, the severe epidemics of enterovirus occurred frequently in Asia, including… read more -
Establishment of Public-access Syndromic Surveillance System in Taipei City, Taiwan
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Taiwan had established a nation-wide emergency department (ED)-based syndromic surveillance system since 2004, with a mean detection sensitivity of 0.67 in 2004-06 [1]. However, this system may not represent the true epidemic situation of infectious… read more -
Incorporating Geographical Contacts into Social Network Analysis for Contact Tracing in Epidemiology: A Study on Taiwan SARS Data
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In epidemiology, contact tracing is a process to control the spread of an infectious disease and identify individuals who were previously exposed to patients with the disease. After the emergence of AIDS, SNA was demonstrated to be a good… read more -
Integrated Syndromic and Virologic Surveillance Systems from Taiwan's Experiences in Facing Global Challenges of Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Objective: Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (EID/REID) involve large populations at risk and thus they might lead to rapidly increasing cases or case fatality rates. Living in this global village, cross-country or cross-continent spread… read more -
Monitoring Dynamic Tempo-Spatial Changes of Influenza-Like Illness During 2005-2007 through Sentinal-Physician Surveillance in Taiwan Using Ring Maps
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The global health threat of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been increasing rapidly in the world since the crosscountry outbreaks during 2003-04. In South and East Asia, the human influenza A (H3N2) was proved to be seeded… read more -
Multilingual Chief Complaint Classifier
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Free text chief complaints (CCs), which may be recorded in different languages, are an important data source for syndromic surveillance systems. For automated syndromic surveillance, CCs must be classified into predefined syndromic categories to… read more