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Visualizing Data Quality: Tools and Views
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Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health department… read more… provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … (aggregated) data which cannot be traced back to the un-aggregated 'raw' data. This and the distributed, … provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … -
How good is your data?
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Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health… read more… provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … (aggregated) data which cannot be traced back to the un-aggregated 'raw' data. This and the distributed, … vides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … -
Traditional and Mobile Public Health Alert Communications with Health Care Providers
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The effectiveness of emergency preparedness and response systems depends, in part, on the effectiveness of communication between agencies and individuals involved in emergency response, including health care providers who play a significant role in… read more… the effectiveness of mobile (SMS) and traditional (email, FAX) communication strategies for sending public … To systematically compare mobile (SMS) and traditional (email, FAX) communication strategies to identify which … the effectiveness of mobile (SMS) and traditional (email, FAX) communication strategies for sending public … -
Clinical Versus Public Health Perceptions of Notifiable Disease Reporting Burden
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The importance transmitting clinical information to public health for disease surveillance is well-documented. Conventional reporting processes require health care providers to complete paper-based notifiable condition reports which are transmitted… read more… condition reports which are transmitted by fax and mail to public health agencies. These processes result in … condition reports which are transmitted by fax and mail to public health agencies. These processes result in … -
Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot
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The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more… USA; and 7McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada E-mail: drolson@gmail.com Objective To describe the initial phase of the … Selected Distribute health department sites were sent an email inviting them to participate in the pilot. Sites were … -
Gossamer Health: A meaningful, open-source approach to shared surveillance software
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Cost-effective, flexible and innovative tools that integrate disparate data sets and allow sharing of information between geographically dispersed collaborators are needed to improve public health surveillance practice. Gossamer Health (Good Open… read more… on summarized clinical data, such as the influenza and visit counts used in the Distribute project (1), (2) methods … open source; architecture; cloud; software *Ian Painter E-mail: ipainter@uw.edu (page number not for citation purpose) …