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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… season typically begins in October and continues through May. The Utah Health Research Network has participated in … since 2002, collecting data on outpatient visits for influenza-like illness (ILI, defined as fever of … at the visit of at least 100F, and (2) had a ‘reason for visit’ field that contained either cough or sore throat. … -
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 disease outbreaks. The increase in absences, however, may be driven by non-sickness related factors. Reason for … disease outbreaks1, 2. The increase in absences, however, may be driven by non-sickness related factors. Reason for … for 38% of the sick absences, followed by unknown (26%), GI (18%), respiratory (16%), and rash (0.6%). There … -
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… methodology for the public health domain because it may combine and analyze unrelated data existing from … from the ‘cause of death’ field. Data grid services may be developed to simulate death records located in … Control and Prevention: Georgia, 2006. update 2006 Aug 26, cited 2010 Fed 09]. Available from: …