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  • Use of Surveillance Data to Measure the Impact of Viral Infections among Young Children

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    Respiratory viruses cause substantial morbidity and costly resource utilization among young children, especially during the winter months. Accurate estimates of the impact of these viruses are important in guiding prevention efforts… read more
    … extrapolation to calculate population- based rates of ED visits for influenza and RSV and associated resource … The effect of influenza on hospitalizations, outpatient visits, and courses of antibiotics I nchildren. N Engl J … admission 0.9 (0.4, 1.9) 11.8 (9.3, 14.9) Primary care visit 4.8 (3.7, 6.3) 23.2 (20.1, 26.6) Antibiotic use 3.1 …
  • A Novel, Context-Sensitive Approach to Anonymizing Spatial Surveillance Data: Impact on Outbreak Detection

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    The use of spatially-based methods and algorithms in epidemiology and surveillance presents privacy challenges for researchers and public health agencies. We describe a novel method for anonymizing individuals in public health datasets, by… read more
    … set- ting. METHODS Cases were emergency department (ED) visits for respiratory illness. Baseline ED visit data were in- jected with artificially-created …
  • The Value of Patient Reports in Syndrome Assignment

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    Of critical importance to the success of syndromic surveillance systems is the ability to collect data in a timely manner and thus ensure rapid detection of disease outbreaks. Most emergency department-based syndromic surveillance systems use… read more
    … pertaining to the child’s current illness. After the visit, the sub- ject’s medical record was abstracted and …
  • Effect of expanded recommendations for pediatric seasonal influenza vaccination: an international comparison

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    Seasonal influenza epidemics are responsible for over 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States per year, and 39,000 of them are in children. In the United States, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guides… read more
    … to make an international comparison of rates of ED visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) following the United … the post-policy change response of ILI-related ED visits to Children’s Hospital Boston, using Montreal … We observed a 34% decline in the rate of ILI-related ED visits among two- to four-year-olds for Children’s Hospital …
  • Seasonal Patterns of Gastrointestinal Illness

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    Objective: To investigate seasonal patterns of gastrointestinal (GI) illness among children and adults.
    … 2001 to Oct 2005. Data were diagnoses for all hospital visits (ED, inpatient, observation). GI visits (N= 1,167,711) were selected by ICD-9 codes using … was significant. RESULTS In Figure 1, numbers of visits with a GI Dx are displayed as overlapping one-year …
  • Evaluation of Online Media Reports for Global Infectious Disease Intelligence

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    While traditional means of surveillance by governments, multi-national agencies, and institutional networks assist in reporting and confirming infectious disease outbreaks, these formal sources of information are limited by their… read more
    … to only 24 released by WHO and 623 found on the ProMED mail system. News sources are shown to be especially …
  • Improving Detection Timeliness by Modeling and Correcting for Data Availability Delays

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    The performance of even the most advanced syndromic surveillance systems can be undermined if the monitored data is delayed before it arrives into the system.  In such cases, an outbreak may be detected only after it is too late for appropriate… read more
    … 2005. These models predict the percentage of total visits from a given date that will be available to the …
  • Automated chronic disease surveillance and visualization using electronic health record data

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    Chronic diseases are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity for Americans but public health surveillance for these conditions is limited. Health departments currently use telephone interviews, medical surveys, and death certificates to gather… read more
    … records; visuali- zation; diabetes *Michael Klompas E-mail: mklompas@partners.org (page number not for citation …