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Assessing the Utility of Syndromic Surveillance Systems during Extreme Weather Conditions
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Recent extreme weather events have caused serious health and social problems across Europe. During the summer heat waves of 2003 across Europe, France recorded an excess of over 14,000 deaths contributed to heat-related causes. Other countries such… read more… data has been proposed as one method of surveillance that may be used to alert public health authorities during … electronic medical records for emergency department visits, are already in existence in many of the countires … will be developed considering both initial chief com- plaints and final diagnoses. Anecdotal evidence sug- … -
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… Demonstration Program [4] from June 2005 through May 2006. The program covers approximately 10% of the …