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Detecting Outbreaks and Other Clusters in Reportable Disease Data
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Outbreaks of infectious diseases are identified in a variety of ways by clinicians and public health practitioners but not usually by analytic methods typically employed in syndromic surveillance. Systematic spatial-temporal analysis of statewide… read moreMonitoring Hospital Emergency Department Visits for Chief Complaints of Insect Bites after a Major Flood
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On August 20th and 21st, 2007, Ohio sustained heavy rains which resulted in severe flooding over a nine-county area in the north-central part of the state. Increased hospital emergency department (ED) visits were expected for gastrointestinal… read moreUse of the National Poison Data System after the 2011 Japan Radiological Incident for Surveillance of Incident-related Exposures in the United States
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NPDS is a national database of detailed information collected from each call, uploaded in near real-time, from the 57 participating regional poison centers (PCs) located across the US. NPDS is owned and operated by the American Association of Poison… read more