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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
    … higher ED and outpatient resource utilization as com- pared with influenza, especially among children <2 … Monto AS, Sullivan KM. Acute respiratory illness I the com- munity: frequency of illness and the agents involved. …
  • 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
    … Adolesc Med. 1995;149:553-558. Self-report tool Chief com- plaint Syndrome cate- gory Sens (%) Spec (%) Sens (%) …
  • 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
    … AG Hoen et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 36 part to infection rates averaging … reaction. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2004;23:S11–18. 2 Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, Brammer L, Bridges CB, Cox NJ, et al. Influenza-associated hospitalizations in the …
  • Characterizing Socioeconomic Disparities in the Burden of Influenza and RSV Using Surveillance Data

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    To measure the impact, within administrative geographic areas, of household income on rates of visits due influenza and RSV among children using real-time syndromic surveillance.
    … towards defining this relationship. Given the mounting con- cern over an influenza pandemic disaster, the ques- … due to influenza and RSV of 14.4 per 1,000 visits (95% con- fidence interval [CI], 17.3-11.6 per 1,000). There is … contact John Brownstein, john_brownstein@harvard.edu www.chip.org Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;2:94 …
  • Traveling Epidemic Waves in Biosurveillance Data: Identifying Early Hotspots of Respiratory Illness

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    We have previously shown that timeliness of detection is influenced both by the data source (e.g., ambulatory vs. emergency department) and demographic characteristics of patient populations (e.g., age). Because epidemic waves are thought to… read more
    … there is a referral bias which must be accounted for as a con- founding factor. The model accounts for referral bias … John Brownstein, john_brownstein@harvard.edu; www.chip.org Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006;1:8 …
  • Improved diagnosis of group A streptococcal pharyngitis using real-time biosurveillance

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    Group A Streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis, the most common bacterial cause of acute pharyngitis, causes more than half a billion cases annually worldwide. Treatment with antibiotics provides symptomatic benefit and reduces complications… read more
    … AM Fine et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 31 test nor treat) as if their scores … Health Threats Journal AM Fine et al. 2011, 4:s80 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 32 …
  • Improved diagnosis of group A streptococcal pharyngitis using real-time biosurveillance

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    Group A Streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis, the most common bacterial cause of acute pharyngitis, causes more than half a billion cases annually worldwide. Treatment with antibiotics provides symptomatic benefit and reduces complications, missed work… read more
    … AM Fine et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 31 test nor treat) as if their scores … Health Threats Journal AM Fine et al. 2011, 4:s80 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 32 …
  • 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
    … about emerging diseases.(3) Figure 1. Screenshot of www.HealthMap.org RESULTS Over the evaluation period, …