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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… (ILI) were obtained from the CDC Influenza website http://www.cdc.gov/flu/ (accessed on 12/18/06), to make comparisons … -
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… be pre- sented and methods for insuring maintenance of con- fidentiality will be discussed. BACKGROUND One of the … based on the hypothesized activity of individuals with con- tagious diseases [1]. This data is only as accurate as …