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Classification of Emergency Department Syndromic Data for Seasonal Influenza Surveillance
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We evaluated several classifications of emergency department (ED) syndromic data to ascertain best syndrome classifications for ILI.… and excluded one hospital that did not provide ED chief com- plaints. The weekly number of positive viral cultures … -
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 …