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Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing of school closure in response to pandemic influenza?
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School closure has long been proposed as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in reducing the transmission of pandemic influenza. Children are thought to have high transmission potential because of their low immunity to circulating… read more… for adapting the Japanese algorithm for use with all-cause absenteeism, using data on the rate of … To determine the optimal pattern in school-specific all-cause absenteeism for use in informing school closure … ABSTRACT Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing … -
A Comparison of Electronic Emergency Department Visits and Data Collected Manually During a Field Exercise
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To compare the completeness of emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admissions data collected electronically for syndromic surveillance and data collected manually for a field surveillance exercise.… for a field surveillance exercise. BACKGROUND On February 26-27, 2008, NYC DOHMH staff participated in a field … public health emergency. Field surveillance staff visited 26 hospitals to collect data on ED visits and hospital … Disposition status is complete in approximately 1/3 of all visits by the next day and for >60% of all visits within …