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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.… The categories will be defined and keywords and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for implementation will be proposed. … The categories will be defined and keywords and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for implementation will be proposed. … Bioterrorism-associated Agents” October 23, 2003. http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/syndromedef/ accessed May 8, … -
Event Communication in a Regional Disease Surveillance System
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Versatile, user-friendly visualization tools are required to organize the wealth of information available to users of large, regional surveillance systems into a coherent view of population health status. Communications … read more… in the fu- ture. The functionality of this communication com- ponent must balance the utility of immediate situ- … can view the communications logs to better understand and com- pare which detection alarms were met with concern … -
Classification of Emergency Department Syndromic Data for Seasonal Influenza Surveillance
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We evaluated several classifications of emergency department (ED) syndromic data to ascertain best syndrome classifications for ILI.… and excluded one hospital that did not provide ED chief com- plaints. The weekly number of positive viral cultures … -
Biosurveillance applications for resource-limited settings: open ESSENCE and ESSENCE desktop edition
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More than a decade ago, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) developed the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more… nic surveillance capability, which can help countries con- form to IHR 2005 regulations. Acknowledgements This … Coberly et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 20 References 1 Lombardo JS, Ross DA. … Health Threats Journal JS Coberly et al. 2011, 4:s71 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 21 … -
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… Burkom et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 77 … -
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… Department Chief Complaint Records, PHIN 2005, http://www.cdc.gov/phin/05conference/05-12-05/8A_Feighner.pdf. [2] … -
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… utili- zation behavior model at a time dependent on symp- tom onset and duration and at a location based on the …