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Syndromic Prediction Power: Comparing Covariates and Baselines
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The eleven syndrome classifications for clinical data records monitored by BioSense include rare events such as death or lymphadenitis and also common occurrences such as respiratory infections. BioSense currently uses two statistical methods for… read more… models: day-of-week, holiday, total daily health facility visits, and a trend variable (date). Models using different … were computed for syndromic counts of lymphadenitis visits, to represent rare syndromes, respiratory visits, to represent common syndromes, and gastrointestinal … -
Data Integration and Analytics within the National Bio-Surveillance Integration System
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This presentation introduces the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Bio-Surveillance Integration System (NBIS) and the analytics functionality within the NBIS that integrates and analyzes structured and unstructured data streams… read more… events as measured against manual extraction, and on the com- parison of BBN models to the evaluation of subject … May 11, 2006. Available at: http://chs.clientapp2.com/hearings/viewhearing.aspx?id=30 [2] Smith, K., Keynote … 22, 2007. Further Information: Nancy Grady, gradyn@saic.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:94 … This …