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  • 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
    … Olson et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 4949 SAS if preferred. Sites were asked … M, Buehler JW, Mostashari F. Adv Dis Surv 2008;5:185 www.isdsjournal.org/article/view/3307/2456. 2 Paladini M, … J, Murray E, Gunn J, Olson D. Adv Dis Surv 2008;5:50 www.isdsjournal.org/article/view/3252/2359. 3 Pendarvis J, …
  • BioSense program redesign

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    The BioSense program’s mission is to support and improve public health surveillance infrastructure and human capacity required to monitor (with minimal lag) critical population health indicators of the scope and severity of acute… read more
    … Redesign Collaboration Site (https://sites.google. com/site/biosenseredesign). Emerging Health Threats Journal … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 40 strengthen existing surveillance … Health Threats Journal TA Kass-Hout et al. 2011, 4:s87 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 41 …
  • Quantifying the potential benefit of early detection for preventing morbidity and mortality: a simulation study of cryptosporidium outbreak

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    Many studies evaluate the timeliness and accuracy of outbreak detection algorithms used in syndromic surveillance. Of greater interest, however, is defining the outcome associated with improved detection. In case of a waterborne cryptosporidiosis… read more
    … Montréal, Montréal, Canada E-mail: okhmatovskaia@gmail.com Objective To quantitatively assess the benefit of … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 4545 the benefits of BWA decline faster … Health Threats Journal A Okhmatovskaia et al. 2011, 4:s46 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 4646 …
  • 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
    … RESULTS While the results varied each year, ILI visits to com- munity-based care settings and ILI visits by children … and deaths due to pneumonia and influenza, British Co- lumbia, Canada, 1998-2004. Vaccine 2008;26:1397-403. 4. …
  • 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.
    … the list of sampled physicians and claims to the Quebec Col- lege of Physicians who, acting as a trusted third … DoD-GEIS. 2003. ICD-9 code set used in ESSENCE. http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENC … with critical bioterrorism-associated agents. http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/syndromedef/ Advances in Disease …
  • 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
    … AG Hoen et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 36 part to infection rates averaging … reaction. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2004;23:S11–18. 2 Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, Brammer L, Bridges CB, Cox NJ, et al. Influenza-associated hospitalizations in the …
  • Comparison of Distribute and ILINet for national influenza surveillance

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    During the spring of 2009, a public health emergency was declared in response to the emergence of the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) virus. Owing to the response, timely data were needed to improve situational awareness and to inform… read more
    … K Kniss et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 46 based syndromic surveillance, and … 2010. References 1 Distribute background at: http://www.isdsdistribute.org/faq.php. 2 Influenza Surveillance Background: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/ weekly/fluactivity.htm. Comparison of …
  • 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
    … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 41 would benefit as reliable data would … 2010;1:163–8. 2 Canada Post Corporation 2010. http://www.canadapost.ca/ … Health Threats Journal E Lanktree et al. 2011, 4:s136 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 42 …