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  • Comparing the Utility of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Room Data for Disease Outbreak Detection

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    To compare the ability to detect disease outbreaks of separate and combined data streams from ambulatory care and emergency department from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
    … of separate and combined data streams from ambulatory care and emergency department from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. Document … Comparing the Utility of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Room Data for Disease Outbreak Detection … of separate and combined data streams from ambulatory care and emergency department from Harvard Pilgrim Health …
  • Benchmarking Temporal Surveillance Techniques

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    Benchmarking of temporal surveillance techniques is a critical step in the development of an effective syndromic surveillance system. Unfortunately, holding “bakeoffs” to blindly compare approaches is a difficult and often fruitless enterprise, in… read more
    … GI complaint time series from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC). Document … Lab; 3Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care OBJECTIVE This paper compares the robustness and … and then benchmarked using five years of daily visits in the Boston area of the HPHC data. In particular, …
  • Telephone Triage Data for Detection of Influenza-like Illness

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    National surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus variants and to monitor influenza-related morbidity and mortality. Nurse telephone triage (“call”) data may serve as a useful complement to… read more
    … Harmon,3 Richard Platt,1 1 Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard … on number of influenza isolates and percentage of total visits to sentinel providers for influenza-like illness were … [2] Henry JV, Magruder S, Snyder M. Comparison of office visit and nurse advice hotline data for syndromic …
  • Multi-Method Comparison of Detecting Common Events of Public Health Interest: a Multi-Site, Multi-Stream Simulation Study

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    Existing statistical methods can perform well in detecting simulated bioterrorism events. However, these methods have not been well-evaluated for detection of the type of respiratory and gastrointestinal events of greatest… read more
    … _Detecting_Common_Events_Of_Public_Health_Interest_A_Multi-Site_Multi-Stream_Simulation_Study.pdf 6 views Submitted by … common events of public health interest: a multi-site, multi-stream simulation study Ken Kleinman1, Allyson … Common Events of Public Health Interest: a Multi-Site, Multi-Stream Simulation Study …
  • Empirical/Asymptotic P-Values for Monte Carlo-Based Hypothesis Testing: An Application to Cluster Detection Using the Scan Statistic

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    SaTScan is a freely available software that uses the scan statistic to detect clusters in space, time or space-time. SaTScan uses Monte Carlo hypothesis testing in order to produce a p-value for the null hypothesis that no… read more
    … Martin Kulldorff, Ken Kleinman Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care OBJECTIVE Our goal was to increase the precision of the …
  • WHONET and BacLink: Software Tools for Laboratory-Based Surveillance of Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance

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    Clinical and public health microbiology laboratories of the world are a rich, underutilized resource in monitoring the changing epidemiology of microbial populations worldwide. Two areas of public health importance in which effective use of relevant… read more
    … 1Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 2Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 3Harvard Medical School OBJECTIVE This paper describes … 1Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 2Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 3Harvard Medical School …
  • Detection of Shigella Outbreaks in Argentina Using WHONET and SaTScan

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    Electronic laboratory-based surveillance can significantly improve the diagnostic specificity and response time of traditional infectious disease surveillance. Under the project “Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study”, we… read more
    … 1Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 2Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Medical School, 3Departamento Bacteriología, …
  • (Syndromic) Surveillance of Birthweight, Gestation, and Infant Mortality

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    There is a great deal of interest in spatial patterns of infant mortality. However, small numbers can make spatial patterns difficult to discern and may mask areas of persistently high risk. This study investigates the spatial pattern of birthweight… read more
    … and weight of mother, parity, insurance and pre-natal care status, and a number of flags for health and congenital …