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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, … -
Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing of school closure in response to pandemic influenza?
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School closure has long been proposed as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in reducing the transmission of pandemic influenza. Children are thought to have high transmission potential because of their low immunity to circulating… read more… for adapting the Japanese algorithm for use with all-cause absenteeism, using data on the rate of … To determine the optimal pattern in school-specific all-cause absenteeism for use in informing school closure … ABSTRACT Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing … -
Predictors of vaccination uptake for the 2009 influenza pandemic (H1N1) in Montreal
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Work on vaccination timing and promotion largely precedes the 2009 pandemic. Post-pandemic studies examining the wide range of local vaccination efforts mostly have been limited to surveys assessing the role of administrative strategies, logistical… read more… for the 2009 influenza pandemic (H1N1) in Montréal Luc de Montigny*, Aman Verma, Katia Charland and David … with the lowest uptake, the Health Department’s campaign did not appear to increase vaccination, reflecting … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … -
Unstructured Free-text Data and Meaningful Use
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In 2010, as rules for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Electronic Heatlh Record (EHR) Incentive Programs (Meaningful Use)(1), were finalized, ISDS became aware of a trend towards new EHR systems capturing or sending emergency department (ED)… read more… permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
Effect of expanded recommendations for pediatric seasonal influenza vaccination: an international comparison
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Seasonal influenza epidemics are responsible for over 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States per year, and 39,000 of them are in children. In the United States, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guides… read more… to the household and community spread of influenza, due in This is an Open Access article distributed under the … children also reduces population-wide morbidity due to influenza.5 Acknowledgements This paper was presented … in children by polymerase chain reaction. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2004;23:S11–18. 2 Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, … -
The influence of address errors on detecting outbreaks of campylobacteriosis
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Mandatory notification to public health of priority communicable diseases (CDs) is a cornerstone of disease prevention and control programs. Increasingly, the addresses of CD cases are used for spatial monitoring and cluster detection… read more… surveillance data. We identified address errors in 25% of all reported cases of communicable diseases from 1995 to … University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and 3Direction de Santé Publique, Agence de la Santé et des services … surveillance data. We identified address errors in 25% of all reported cases of communicable diseases from 1995 to … -
Beyond Detection: Attack Characterization with Syndromic and Clinical Data
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Most research in syndromic surveillance has emphasized early detection, but clinical diagnosis of the index case will tend to occur before detection by syndromic surveillance for certain types of outbreaks [1]. Syndromic surveillance may, however,… read more… back’ window to obtain an estimate of the disease burden (i.e., total number of non-diagnosed symptomatic anthrax … clinic visits into baseline data and estimated the dis- ease burden at the time of the first clinical … -
Does Climate Predict the Timing of Peak Influenza Activity in the United States?
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Though spatio-temporal patterns of influenza spread have often suggested that environmental factors, such as temperature, solar radiation and humidity play a key role, few studies have directly assessed their effect on the timing… read more… with epidemic timing (95% CI: (-0.027, -0.004)). We did not find a significant relationship between either dew …