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Infection Watch Live- A Real-time, Geospatial Mapping Tool of Hospital Triage Data for Public Consumption
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To inform health professionals and the public directly about real-time utilization of local Emergency Departments for respiratory and gastrointestinal illness to enable enhanced communication and collaboration between Public Health and health care… read more… maps (generated using ArcGIS Server) and be available at www.klfapublichealth.ca in Septem- ber 2008. METHODS Design … Information: Adam van Dijk, avandijk@kflapublichealth.ca www.kflapublichealth.ca Advances in Disease Surveillance … -
Can Monitoring Telehealth Ontario Respiratory Call Volume be a Component of an Effective Public Health Influenza Surveillance Strategy?
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Influenza epidemics occur seasonally, impose a high economic burden on the health care system, and are responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality (1). The past century has seen three influenza A pandemics with variable severity. The recent… read more… Health Organization 2003;Available from: URL: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs211/en/ (2) Girard MP, … -
Cross Border Syndromic Surveillance- Overview and Recommendations from an ISDS Consultation Held in Kingston, Ontario Canada, June 11-12th, 2007
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The objectives of the two day International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) funded consultation were to develop expert, consensus-based recommendations that address specific, unanswered questions that hinder advances in cross border… read more… ad- vances in cross border syndromic surveillance. The con- sultation included a discussion of the details of … sharing of notifiable/reportable disease reports. The con- sultation objective was to build upon this work while …