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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
    … based on real-time information from hospital emergency de- partments that is transmitted and analyzed electroni- … Ques- tionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction (QUIS) de- veloped by the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at … The average age of respondents was 45 years, ranging from 26-60. The majority of the respon- dents were female (71%) …
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    Rhode Island implemented the Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) system, developed in 1999 by the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Biomedical Informatics. This system is based on real-time information from… read more
    … period. RESULTS Although specificity values were high for all syn- dromes, there was wide variation in sensitivity by … Negative predictive values were greater than 92% for all syndromes but positive predictive values ranged from … Financing Administration. International Classification of Dis- eases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification, 6th ed. …