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Localized Cluster Detection Applied to Joint and Separate Military and Veteran Subpopulations
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The Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project seeks to improve situational awareness of the health of VA/DoD populations by combining their respective data. Each system uses a version of the Electronic Surveillance… read more -
Category-Specific Comparison of Univariate Alerting Methods for Biosurveillance Decision Support
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Temporal alerting algorithms commonly used in syndromic surveillance systems are often adjusted for data features such as cyclic behavior but are subject to overfitting or misspecification errors when applied indiscriminately. In a project for the… read more -
Refinement of a Population-Based Bayesian Network for Fusion of Health Surveillance Data
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The ESSENCE demonstration module was built to help DoD health monitors make routine decisions based on disparate evidence sources such as daily counts of ILI-related chief complaints, ratios of positive lab tests for influenza, patient age… read more -
Equine Syndromic Surveillance in Colorado Using Veterinary Laboratory Test Order Data
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The Risk Identification Unit (RIU) of the US Dept. of Agriculture’s Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health (CEAH) conducts weekly surveillance of national livestock health data and routine coordination with agricultural stakeholders. In an… read more -
A Term-based Approach to Asyndromic Determination of Significant Case Clusters
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Biosurveillance systems commonly depend on free-text chief complaints (CC)s for timely situational awareness. However, diagnosis codes may not be available soon enough and may have uncertain value because they are assigned for billing purposes… read more -
Coverage and Timeliness of Combined Military and Veteran Surveillance Systems
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An objective of the Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project is to improve situational awareness of the health of combined VA and DoD populations. DoD and VA both use versions of the Electronic Surveillance System… read more