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  • Increase in Pneumonia Cases as an Early Indicator of Severe and Pandemic Influenza Outbreak

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    Objective To enable the early detection of pandemic influenza, we have designed a system to differentiate between severe and mild influenza outbreaks. Historic information about previous pandemics suggested the evaluation of two… read more
    … and can be diagnosed immediately in a physician office visit, while a confirmed influenza diagnosis requires a … and can be diagnosed immediately in a physician office visit, while a confirmed influenza diagnosis requires a … outpatient office and hospital emergency room (ER) visits in selected counties in Virginia and Maryland, and …
  • Diagnosis Coding Anomalies Resulting in Hemorrhagic Illness Alerts in Veterans Health Administration Outpatient Clinics

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    The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) operates over 880 outpatient clinics across the nation. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes… read more
    … Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes VHA ICD9 coded outpatient visit data for the detection of abnormal patterns of disease … 0.03 HEMORRHAGIC COND NOS 287.9 48 0.07 DROP HEMATOCRIT PRECIP 790.01 71 0.10 HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYND 283.11 209 0.29 … tools in order to promote more accurate outpatient coding may improve the performance of the HI detection model. …
  • Analytic Biosurveillance Methods for Resource-Limited Settings

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    Biosurveillance in resource-limited settings is essential because of both enhanced risk of diseases rarely seen elsewhere (e.g. cholera) and pandemic threats (e.g. avian influenza). However, access to care and laboratory test capability are… read more
    … of syndromic surveillance. Such surveillance in turn may be a challenge because of insufficient data history and … has the added complication that day-of-week clinical visit patterns differ widely, (e.g. clinic closure on … has the added complication that day-of-week clinical visit patterns differ widely, (e.g. clinic closure on …
  • The Development of Virtual Data for Syndromic Surveillance Exercises

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    On 27 April 2005, a simulated bioterrorist event—the aerosolized release of Francisella tularensis in the men’s room of luxury box seats at a sports stadium—was used to exercise the disease surveillance capability of the National Capital Region (NCR… read more
    … requirements and represented both ‘normal’ endemic visits (the background) as well as outbreak-specific records … requirements and represented both ‘normal’ endemic visits (the background) as well as outbreak-specific records … create the background data, emergency depart- ment (ED) visits were generated for each political unit in the NCR. ED …
  • Analytic disease surveillance methodology based on emulation of experienced human monitors

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    Recently published studies evaluate statistical alerting methods for disease surveillance based on detection of modeled signals in a data background of either authentic historical data or randomized samples. Differences in regional… read more
    … based on standard data distributions or stylized signals may not alert as desired. Practical algorithm evaluation and adjustment may be possible by judging algorithmperformance according to … based on standard data distributions or stylized signals may not alert as desired. Practical algorithm evaluation and …
  • An Innovative Design for Conducting Simulation Exercises on Electronic Disease Surveillance System

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    In order to be best prepared to identify health events using electronic disease surveillance systems, it is vital for users to participate in regular exercises that realistically simulate how events may present in their system following disease… read more
    … regular exercises that realistically simulate how events may present in their system following disease manifestation … regular exercises that realistically simulate how events may present in their system following disease manifestation …
  • Enhancing Event Communication in Disease Surveillance: ECC 2.0

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    Regional disease surveillance systems allow users the ability to view large amounts of population health information and examine automated alerts that suggest increased disease activity. These systems require users to view and… read more
    … This interpretation is valuable information that may benefit other users. In addition to the … This interpretation is valuable information that may benefit other users. In addition to the daily … This interpretation is valuable information that may benefit other users. In addition to the …
  • Defining Clinical Condition Categories for Biosurveillance

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    The goal of this project is to create a set of clinical condition categories based on explicit criteria for use in biosurveillance programs. The categories will be defined and keywords and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for implementation will be proposed.
    … according to local preferences. However, this disparity may also hinder comparison of biosurveillance data from … nationally notifiable infectious diseases; 3) reasons for visit from CDC’s Hurricane Morbidity Report Form for Active …