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Evaluating Syndromic Signals from Ambulatory Care Data in Four States
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The utility of syndromic surveillance systems to augment health departments’ traditional surveillance for naturally occurring disease has not been prospectively evaluated. Objective In this interim… read more… data center; health depart- ments collect data on all clusters of infectious disease that come to their … provide these data to the data center via the system’s website in uniform databases developed by the Massachusetts … and an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 from a pig roast with 26 ill. Sensitivity and positive predictive value to date … -
Nurse Call Data for Detection of Influenza-Like Illness
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Influenza affects millions of people and causes about 36,000 deaths in the United States each winter. Pandemics of influenza emerge at irregular intervals. National influenza surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus… read more… 3 views Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … isolates, percentage ILI, or both indica- tors for all regions. The peak week for calls fell within one week of … illness in ambulatory care setting. erg Infect Dis 2004;10:1806-11. ] Ritzwoller DP, Kleinman K, Palen TE, … -
Multi-Method Comparison of Detecting Common Events of Public Health Interest: a Multi-Site, Multi-Stream Simulation Study
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Existing statistical methods can perform well in detecting simulated bioterrorism events. However, these methods have not been well-evaluated for detection of the type of respiratory and gastrointestinal events of greatest… read more… Existing statistical methods can perform well in de- tecting simulated bioterrorism events [1]. However, these methods have not been well-evaluated for de- tection of the type of respiratory and gastrointestinal … signal extent was nearly as good as the best method in all cases. Table 2: Results Sim. Best method WROC (max = 1) … -
Comparing the Utility of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Room Data for Disease Outbreak Detection
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To compare the ability to detect disease outbreaks of separate and combined data streams from ambulatory care and emergency department from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.… in a variety of settings, including hospital emergency de- partments and ambulatory clinics resulting in multi- ple …