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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… with summarized (aggregated) data which cannot be traced back to the un-aggregated 'raw' data. This and the … with summarized (aggregated) data, which cannot be traced back to the unaggregated ’raw’ data. This and the … with summarized (aggregated) data which cannot be traced back to the un-aggregated 'raw' data. This and the … -
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… with summarized (aggregated) data which cannot be traced back to the un-aggregated 'raw' data. This and the … with summarized (aggregated) data, which cannot be traced back to the unaggregated ’raw’ data. This and the … with summarized (aggregated) data which cannot be traced back to the un-aggregated 'raw' data. This and the … -
Monitoring winter-seasonal acute gastroenteritis emergency department visits by age
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Epidemic acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a major contributor to the global burden of morbidity and mortality. Rotavirus and norovirus epidemics present a significant burden annually, with their predominant impact in temperate climates occurring… read more… AGE data, 6 provided historical baseline data going back to January 2006 or earlier. Of these, 3 were state, 3 … ratios [(weekly AGE syndrome count)/ (total ED visit count)] were assessed by jurisdiction and age group. … 21894257. *Don Olson E-mail: drolson@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. … -
Adopting a common influenza-like illness syndrome across multiple health jurisdictions
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Syndromic surveillance systems were designed for early outbreak and bioterrorism event detection. As practical experience shaped development and implementation, these systems became more broadly used for general surveillance and situational… read more… historical data consisting of total and ILI-related daily visit counts by age group (B2, 2�4, 5�17, 18�44, 45�64 and … pubmed/21894257. *Don Olson E-mail: drolson@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. … -
Rapid ad-hoc cross-jurisdictional sharing of syndrome data using Distribute technology
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Cross-jurisdictional sharing of public health syndrome data is useful for many reasons, among them to provide a larger regional or national view of activity and to determine if unusual activity observed in one jurisdiction is atypical. Considerable… read more… project does not impose strict syndrome definitions. This lack of standardization intro- duces variability between …