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Synthesizing the American Health Information Community’s Minimum Data Set
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One of the challenges facing developers and users of automated disease surveillance systems is being able to accurately evaluate the performance of their systems for the wide variety of public health threats that are possible. A… read more… cases representing various types of outbreaks on top of that background. With the introduction of the … have been used to evaluate the ability of algorithms to de- tect the elevated levels [2]. Routine unvalidated out- … cases represent- ing various types of outbreaks on top of that back- ground [3],[4]. With the introduction of … -
Linking Public Health and Healthcare Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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A number of syndromic surveillance systems include tools that quickly identify potentially large disease outbreak events. However, the high falsepositive rate continues to be a problem in all of these systems. Our earlier work… read more… the high falsepositive rate continues to be a problem in all of these systems. Our earlier work has showed … 5 views Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … false- positive rate continues to be a problem [4–6] in all of these systems. Our earlier work has showed that … -
A Simple Method of Using Linked Health Data in Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes a simple technique for utilizing linked health information in syndromic surveillance. Using knowledge of which patient encounters resulted in laboratory test requests and prescriptions may improve sensitivity and specificity of… read more… with seasonal respiratory illness outbreaks. The top plot shows all the data, regardless of severity linkage score. The … ratio [1] for this event increased by about 26% as the severity linkage score filtering increased from …