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Google Flu Trends: Correlation with Emergency Department Influenza Rates and Crowding Metrics
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Emergency Departments (ED) supply critical infrastructure to provide medical care in the event of a disaster or disease outbreak, including seasonal and pandemic influenza [1]. Already over-crowded and stretched to near-capacity, influenza activity… read more… use of traditional surveillance systems has been limited due to the several week lag associated with reporting, new … use of traditional surveillance systems has been limited due to the several week lag associated with reporting, new … 2. Glaser CA, Gilliam S, Thompson WW, Dassey DE, Waterman SH, Saruwatari M, et al. Medical care capacity … -
A Survey of Usage and Response Protocols of Syndromic Surveillance Systems by State Public Health Departments in the United States
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Within the syndromic surveillance literature there are acknowledged gaps with respect to penetration of syndromic surveillance systems and standard or promising practices for response. The lack of adequate data and evidence-based… read more… of a multi-phase study, with the global objectives of de- scribing existing infrastructure in responding to alerts … cur- rently underway by the International Society for Dis- ease Surveillance directed towards developing a … survey (telephone and email) of state epidemiologists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The survey … -
Framework for the Development of Response Protocols for Public Health Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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Although syndromic surveillance cannot serve its intended purpose without the timely public health response launched after aberration detection, the literature is very limited with respect to response to syndromic surveillance… read more… [3]. The framework for response in this study was de- signed with attention to decision-making support and … METHODS We selected eight case study states to secure a di- verse sample with respect to population size, geogra- … will help to achieve system “portability,” a concept de- scribed in CDC’s syndromic surveillance evaluation …