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Over-the-counter Medication Sales Surveillance for Early Detection of Respiratory Epidemics in Rural China
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Respiratory infectious diseases are the most common diseases reported in rural China. Studies have suggested that the OTC retail sale data could be used to detect early outbreak (1, 2). However, few researches have performed to identify whether OTC… read more -
The Growth and Variation of Symptoms of Influenza-like Illness: An Application of the Linear Growth Curve Model in Syndromic Surveillance in Rural China
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Symptoms of influenza-like illness (ILI) were reported daily by health workers via the integrated syndromic surveillance system in rural China (ISSC)(1). Objective To analyze the growth and variation of ILI reports using… read more -
Village Doctors' Acceptability to a Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural China
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Emphasis has been placed on the improvement of existing surveillance systems and developing innovative new surveillance systems around the world after the events of 9/11 in 2001, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003. Investments have not… read more -
Application of EWMA and CUSUM models to School Absenteeism Surveillance for Detecting Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Rural China
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Absenteeism has great advantages in promoting the early detection of epidemics. School absenteeism surveillance could timely detect the aggregations of absentees in time and space, so as to provide effective early warning and prevention and control… read more -
Evaluating the Performance of Syndromic Surveillance System using High-fidelity Outbreak Simulations
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The evaluation of outbreak detection performance remained a major challenge to every syndromic surveillance system. Owing to the scarcity and uncertainty of infectious disease outbreaks in the real world, simulated outbreak datasets have been… read more -
Features of Varicella Outbreak in Primary Schools in an Integrated Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural China
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Since April 2012, an integrated syndromic surveillance system (ISSC) has been established in health facilities, pharmacies and primary schools in two rural counties of Jiangxi Province, China (1). The objective of ISSC is to integrate syndromic… read more