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Evaluating Syndromic Signals from Ambulatory Care Data in Four States
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The utility of syndromic surveillance systems to augment health departments’ traditional surveillance for naturally occurring disease has not been prospectively evaluated. Objective In this interim… read more… data center; health depart- ments collect data on all clusters of infectious disease that come to their … provide these data to the data center via the system’s website in uniform databases developed by the Massachusetts … and an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 from a pig roast with 26 ill. Sensitivity and positive predictive value to date … -
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.… in a variety of settings, including hospital emergency de- partments and ambulatory clinics resulting in multi- ple …