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A Comparison of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Department Encounters as Data Sources for Detection of Clusters of Lower Gastrointestinal Illness
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We sought to compare ambulatory care (AC) and emergency department (ED) data for the detection of clusters of lower gastrointestinal illness, using AC and ED data and AC+ED data combined, from two geographically separate health plans participating… read more… For each data stream— AC, ED, and AC+ED combined—repeat visits were omitted if they occurred within 6 weeks of a previous visit to the same setting for LGI. Generalized linear mixed … -
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… 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 … -
Nurse Call Data for Detection of Influenza-Like Illness
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Influenza affects millions of people and causes about 36,000 deaths in the United States each winter. Pandemics of influenza emerge at irregular intervals. National influenza surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus… read more… data on number of influenza isolates and percentage of visits for ILI from sentinel providers were com- pared to … ] Henry JV, Magruder S, Snyder M. Comparison of office visit d nurse advice hotline data for syndromic … -
in silico Surveillance: Highly detailed agent-based models for surveillance system evaluation and design
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Modern public health surveillance systems have great potential for improving public health. However, evaluating the performance of surveillance systems is challenging because examples of baseline disease distribution in the population are limited to… read more… seeking behavior and a surveillance system for outpatient visits. The resulting in silico surveil- lance data contain … specified surveillance system create a data stream of ILI visits. Outbreaks of influenza are artificially inserted …