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Using influenza rapid test positivity as an early indicator for the onset of seasonal influenza
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Influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality, with attendant costs of roughly $10 billion for treatment and up to $77 billion in indirect costs annually. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts annual… read more… via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. Early notification might facilitate clinical … via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website.5 Early notification might facilitate clinical … coincided in time. An early alert was identified in all four seasons using rapid test positivity, although no … -
Design and development of a standards-based model to publish public health reporting criteria
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State laws mandate clinicians and laboratories to report occurrences of reportable diseases to public health entities. For this purpose, a set of case-reporting specifications are published and maintained by public health departments… read more… (1) they are described on individual state websites and posters and not structured or executable; (2) … (1) they are described on individual state websites and posters and not structured or executable; (2) … oriented architecture. Results After review of the websites from Utah, LA County, Colorado and Washington State … -
Real-time surveillance of influenza/pneumonia deaths: new strategies using grid computing and natural language processing
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Surveillance of deaths due to influenza and pneumonia using death records has the potential to be a relatively inexpensive and quick approach to tracking and detecting influenza and respiratory illness outbreaks; however, presently such a system… read more… Surveillance of deaths due to influenza and pneumonia using death records has the … of reporting cities. Introduction Surveillance of deaths due to influenza and pneumonia using death records has the … results The Utah Department of Health has made available de- identified death records from 1989 to 2008. Analytic … -
Pilot Evaluation of Syndrome-specific School Absenteeism Data for Public Health Surveillance
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School absenteeism data could be used as an early indicator for disease outbreaks. The increase in absences, however, may be driven by non-sickness related factors. Reason for absence combined with syndrome-specific information… read more… for 38% of the sick absences, followed by unknown (26%), GI (18%), respiratory (16%), and rash (0.6%). There …