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Assessing and Optimizing the Accuracy of Physician Billing Claims for Use in Automated Syndromic Surveillance
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To assess the accuracy of community-based physician claims for identifying 5 syndromes: fever, gastrointestinal, neurological, rash, and respiratory.… status (+/-), syn- drome type, syndrome ICD-9 code, and visit month (to avoid seasonal bias). The RAMQ then sent the … patient complaints, symptoms, and signs for each sampled visit. The sensitivity, specific- ity, and positive … -
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 make an international comparison of rates of ED visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) following the United … 0.99) 0.03 2–4 0.66 (0.59, 0.75) o0.001 5–9 0.83 (0.70, 0.98) 0.03 10–18 0.83 (0.70, 0.98) 0.03 Emerging Health Threats Journal 2011, 4:s85. … -
The Utility of Space-Time Surveillance for Tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis (TB) has reemerged as a global health epidemic in recent years. Although several researchers have examined the use of space-time surveillance to detect TB clusters, they have not used genetic information to… read more… Space-time surveillance for TB in an urban area may not be better than random at detecting genetic clus- … -
Assessing address data quality for public health surveillance in Montreal
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In Montreal, notifiable diseases are reported to the Public Health Department (PHD). Of 44, 250 disease notifications received in 2009, up to 25% had potential address errors. These can be introduced during transcription, handwriting… read more… for Montreal residents reported to the PHD between 26 January and 9 May 2009 and followed by PH nurses were included (n!798). … -
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 wait-and-see individuals, even a short postponement may well have become nonvaccination (3). These findings … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
Aiding the practice of tuberculosis control: a decision support model to predict transmission
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A new TB case can be classified as: 1) a source case for transmission leading to other, secondary active TB cases; 2) a secondary case, resulting from recent transmission; or 3) an isolated case, uninvolved in recent transmission (i.e. neither… read more… while being Canadian-born (OD 2.87, 95% CI 1.94; 4.26) and being Haitian-born (OD 3.09, 95% CI 1.99; 4.78) were … of source and secondary cases in the available data may have limited performance. However, the model can be an … tuberculosis. Respirology. 2004;9:313�9. 2. Fok A, Numata Y, Schulzer M, FitzGerald MJ. Risk factors for clustering of …