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Syndromic Surveillance in Boston: Validating the Detection of Small Events and Integrating Response from a Local Health Department
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The interpretation of aberrations detected by syndromic surveillance is critical for success, but poses challenges for local health departments who must conduct appropriate follow-up and confirm outbreaks. This paper describes the response of the… read more… CUSUM is used to detect signals of potential interest. All signals are reviewed daily by BPHC communicable disease … likely due to an unidentified virus. Available lab tests did no identify any pathogens. CONCLUSIONS The utility of … investigation. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 1/1 1/15 1/29 2/12 2/26 3/12 3/26 4/9 4/23 Date N o. o f v is its (v om iti ng ) … -
Sneezes vs. Wheezes: Syndrome Definitions for Influenza-like Illness
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During influenza season, the Boston Public Health Commission uses syndromic surveillance to monitor Emergency Department visits for chief complaints indicative of influenza-like illness (ILI). We created three syndrome definitions for ILI to capture… read more… Any chief complaint containing “flu” was included in all three syndrome groups. Figure 1. Syndrome Definitions … Trends in the number of weekly visits and percentage of all ED visits for each ILI syndrome definition were compared … -
What Can Enhanced Influenza Surveillance Teach Us About Syndromic Surveillance?
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Currently Scotland has a number of influenza surveillance schemes, including âflu-spotterâ practices, and enhanced surveillance general practices that submit clinical samples for virological testing (SERVIS practices). This information feeds… read more… 2 views Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … 2006 involves roll out of use of the data from 80% of all Scottish GP’s. Results: A File Transfer Protocol will be … and the GP’s themselves. The project-managed system is due for launch in September 2006. Conclusions: The … -
Do Women Really Complain More than Men? Looking at Gastrointestinal Chief Complaints in Boston
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The purpose of syndromic surveillance is the early identification of disease outbreaks. Classification of chief complaints into syndromes and the type of statistics used for aberration detection can affect outbreak detection sensitivity and… read more… GISG but dilute the aberration detection ability of Gi1 due to high daily volume. We determined the sensitivity and … Female Sensitivity Specificity Sensitivity Specificity All GIC (n= 2795) 71% 96% 79% 93% Gi1 (n=881) 75% 96% 84% …