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Enhancing Community Connectivity for Infectious Disease Surveillance in Child Care Centres in Hong Kong
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The Centre for Health Protection in Hong Kong has operated a sentinel surveillance system for infectious diseases at child care centre (CCC) since March 2004, among its multi-faceted disease surveillance systems. Forty-six CCCs have… read more… of means of data submission, and other potential uses of website in addition to data submission. Based on the result of the survey, a testing website was developed at CHP. The website has been carefully designed to ensure simplicity and … -
The Feasibility of Using Consultation Diagnosis at Emergency Departments for Syndromic Surveillance
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We conducted a study to examine the suitability of the data collected at the local emergency departments for use in syndromic surveillance.… 1 view Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … Modification) codes (1). For this study, we used a set of de-identified emer- gency department data collected from … 10 most frequently used codes contributed to 38.3 % of all coded records. When grouped under specific disease … -
Use of Informatics for Understanding Disease Activity in Community
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Centre for Health Protection (CHP) plans to conduct a pilot project in developing a syndromic surveillance system using data from Emergency Departments (ED) in Hong Kong. This is part of the Communicable Disease Information System initiative, which… read more… from ED in Hong Kong. This is part of the Communicable Dis- ease Information System initiative, which aims at … detection methods with simulated data. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Feb;11(2):314-6. [3] Hogan WR, et al. Detection of … -
Timeliness of Over-the-Counter Drug Sales as an Early Indicator of Community Disease Outbreaks in Hong Kong
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Overseas studies showed that increases in over-the-counter (OTC) drug sales might serve as an indicator of community disease outbreaks before they are detected by conventional surveillance systems. Using data collected… read more… season, especially during and after the SARS outbreak. Due to the dominance of OTC drug market by some key chains …