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Enhancing Public Health Surveillance by Using Multiple Data Sources for Syndromic Surveillance: The Alberta Real Time Syndromic Surveillance Net
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Capital Health is a regional health care organization, which provides services for over one million inhabitants in the Edmonton area of Alberta, Canada. Traditionally, disease surveillance under its jurisdiction has been paper-based… read more… service (Health Link, HL); (2) emergency department visits (EDIS); (3) Provincial Laboratory for Public Health … the community, and serves as a leading indicator of what may subsequently be recorded in EDIS. Similarly, increased … -
Automated Data Acquisition: Data Collection and Integration for the Alberta Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance Net (ARTSSN)
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The ability to provide real time syndromic surveillance throughout the Capital Health Region is currently undeveloped. There are limited mechanisms for routine real time surveillance of disease or conditions of public health… read more… concerns– 130 selected protocols • Emergency Departments visits chief com- plaints, discharge diagnosis and relevant la- boratory … results with 130 proto- cols: • 1,800,000 emergency room visits • Absenteeism records of K-6 students, track- ing on …