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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… Zinszer et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 6868 analyses. The magnitude of address … Health Threats Journal K Zinszer et al. 2011, 4:s59 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 6969 … -
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… Egger et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 26 and threshold levels in absenteeism … Health Threats Journal JR Egger et al. 2011, 4:s78 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 27 … -
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… Public Health Syndromic Surveillance. Available online: www.syndromic.org/projects/meaningful-use. *Charles Ishikawa … 2011, 4: 11096 - DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v4i0.11096 http://www.syndromic.org/projects/meaningful-use 1-25 ehtj11702 … -
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… outbreaks resulting from an aerosol anthrax release. We con- ducted 1,000 simulations for each of 12 scenarios … -
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… Rainfall�20 mm (ref: B20 mm) 0.67 [0.56�0.79] Snowfall�20 cm (ref: B20 cm) 0.43 [0.33�0.56] Weekend (ref: weekday) 1.02 [0.97�1.07] …