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Incorporating Geographical Contacts into Social Network Analysis for Contact Tracing in Epidemiology: A Study on Taiwan SARS Data
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In epidemiology, contact tracing is a process to control the spread of an infectious disease and identify individuals who were previously exposed to patients with the disease. After the emergence of AIDS, SNA was demonstrated to be a good… read more… In epidemiology, contact tracing is a process to con- trol the spread of an infectious disease and identify … into SNA has been demonstrated to reveal potential con- tacts among patients [2][3]. METHODS In this research, … connect individual patients to form a network with two com- monly used measures in SNA, the degree of a node and … -
Integrated Syndromic and Virologic Surveillance Systems from Taiwan's Experiences in Facing Global Challenges of Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Objective: Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (EID/REID) involve large populations at risk and thus they might lead to rapidly increasing cases or case fatality rates. Living in this global village, cross-country or cross-continent spread… read more… Research Center, *Corresponding Author <cc_king99@hotmail.com> OBJECTIVE Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases … with the outbreak of LPAI and HPAI viruses (Liu CM and King CC, 2007) have been implemented for pandemic … definitions of syndrome groups of chief complaints/ICD-9 CM for early detecting EID outbreaks, (3) to grasp … -
Establishing a Syndromic Surveillance System Using Chief-Complaint Data at Emergency Department of One Regional Hospital in Taipei City to Detect Infectious Disease Outbreaks
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Facing public health threats of bioterrorism and emerging infectious diseases (EID), the traditional passive surveillance system is not efficient and outmoded. Evidences reveal that several newly developed syndromic surveillance… read more… Dr. Chwan-Chuen King, cc_king99@hotmail.com Figure 1 –Comparison ILI patients selected by different …