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  • 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.
    … To compare the completeness of emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admissions data collected electronically … A Comparison of Electronic Emergency Department Visits and Data Collected Manually During a Field Exercise … To compare the completeness of emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admissions data collected electronically …
  • Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing of school closure in response to pandemic influenza?

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … data on the rate of influenza-related nurse visits in corresponding schools to validate our findings.   … using data on the rate of influenza-related nurse visits in corresponding schools to validate our findings. … the daily count of all-cause absenteeism and school nurse visits for fever/flu syndrome in 1206 public schools in New …