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Syndromic Surveillance System User Satisfaction and Attitudes
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With the recent emphasis on public health preparedness, health departments are identifying new ways to prepare for emergencies. There has been a significant increase in the number of syndromic surveillance systems operating in… read more… given to each user of the system after they attended a training session to introduce the RI RODS system. RESULTS … -
Estimating the incidence of influenza cases that present to emergency departments
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Our laboratory previously established the value of over-the-counter (OTC) sales data for the early detection of disease outbreaks. We found that thermometer sales (TS) increased significantly and early during influenza (flu) season.… read more… randomly selecting a different subset of counties for training and testing. (Figure 1). Results Least squares … -
SyCo: A Probabilistic Machine Learning Method for Classifying Chief Complaints into Symptom and Syndrome Categories
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Scientists have utilized many chief complaint (CC) classification techniques in biosurveillance including keyword search, weighted keyword search, and naïve Bayes. These techniques may utilize CC-to-syndrome or CC-… read more… of the relationship between words and symptoms given a training set of labeled chief complaints.5 To perform a …