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Field-based Evaluation of Malaria Outbreak Detection & Response, Mudzi and Goromonzi
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Infectious disease outbreaks, such as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, highlight the need for surveillance systems to quickly detect outbreaks and provide data to prevent future pandemics. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Joint… read more… detected at the local level, national-level evaluations may fail to identify capacity improvements for outbreak … in on-the-ground surveillance improvements that may be lower cost than traditional surveillance improvement … detected at the local level, national-level evaluations may fail to identify capacity improvements for outbreak … -
The validity of emergency department influenza-like-illness (ILI) for laboratory-confirmed influenza in children
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Syndromic surveillance systems use electronic health-related data to support near-real time disease surveillance. Over the last 10 years, the use of ILI syndromes defined from emergency department (ED) data has become an increasingly accepted… read more… tion of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) com- pared to most years, and (2) the ‘‘concomitant’’ … Confidence Interval [CI]: 0.30, 0.68) and 0.72 (CI: 0.70, 0.74) respectively, for the ‘‘Febrile’’ definition and … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …