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Timeliness of Ambulatory Data for Age-Specific ILI Surveillance
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While there has been some work to evaluate different data sources for syndromic surveillance of influenza, no one has yet assessed the utility of simultaneously restricting data to specific visit settings and patient age-groups using… read more… olds to community-based settings stood out in particular due to their pro- nounced correlations at the earliest lags. … British Co- lumbia, Canada, 1998-2004. Vaccine 2008;26:1397-403. 4. Marsden-Haug N, Foster VB, Gould PL, et al. … sification of Diseases, Ninth Revision. Emerg Infect Dis 2007;13:207-16. Further Information: Emily Chan, … -
Crowdout: When do other events hinder informal disease surveillance?
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Informal surveillance systems like HealthMap are effective at the early detection of outbreaks. However, reliance on informal sources such as news media makes the efficiency of these systems vulnerable to newsroom constraints, namely high-profile… read more… Informal surveillance; syndromic surveillance; infectious dis- ease; epidemics; media References 1. Mandl KD, Overhage … P2010, P2011 and P08.09 are parallel time periods, i.e., the same dates as the crowdout period but during … 4.56 Flu 2 After 4.56 2.55 6.57 Flu 2 Parallel 7.0 4.74 9.26 �ISDS 2011 Conference Abstracts Emerging Health Threats … -
Web Search Query Data to Monitor Dengue Epidemics: a New Model for Dengue Surveillance
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With an estimated 500 million people infected each year, dengue ranks as one of the most significant mosquito-borne viral human diseases, and one of the most rapidly emerging vectorborne diseases. A variety of obstacles including bureaucracy and… read more… the overall dataset and a holdout subset of the data. All search queries were fully anonymized. This methodology … internet searches for influenza surveillance. Clin Infect Dis. 2008;47:1443� 8. 5. Choi H, Varian H. Predicting the …