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  • Characterizing Socioeconomic Disparities in the Burden of Influenza and RSV Using Surveillance Data

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    To measure the impact, within administrative geographic areas, of household income on rates of visits due influenza and RSV among children using real-time syndromic surveillance.
    … geographic areas, of household income on rates of visits due influenza and RSV among children using real-time … geo- graphic areas, of household income on rates of visits due influenza and RSV among children using real- time … to the emergency de- partment of a large tertiary care pediatric hospital in Miami, Florida from 2001-2005. We …
  • A Tool for Promoting Responsible Antibiotic Prescribing across Settings and Sectors

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    Antibiotic resistance is a mounting public health threat calling for action on global, national and local levels. Antibiotic use has been a major driver of increasing rates of antibiotic resistance. This has given rise to the practice of antibiotic… read more
    … to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use across different care settings. Antibiotic stewardship has been increasingly … settings, but adoption has been slow in many ambulatory care settings including primary care of humans. Uptake of antibiotic stewardship in …
  • 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
    … out- comes and public health, and (4) monitoring health care quality. BioSense, as an all-hazards and timely … cited. Figure 1 The BioSense Redesign Collaboration Site (https://sites.google. com/site/biosenseredesign). Emerging Health …
  • 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
    … data on the rate of influenza-related nurse visits in corresponding schools to validate our findings.   … using data on the rate of influenza-related nurse visits in corresponding schools to validate our findings. … the daily count of all-cause absenteeism and school nurse visits for fever/flu syndrome in 1206 public schools in New …
  • Online Reports of Foodborne Illness Capture Foods Implicated in Official Foodborne Outbreak Reports

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    Traditional surveillance systems only capture a fraction of the estimated 48 million yearly cases of foodborne illness in the United States due to few affected individuals seeking medical care and lack of reporting to appropriate authorities. Non-… read more
    … States due to few affected individuals seeking medical care and lack of reporting to appropriate authorities. … foodservice reviews on Yelp.com (a business review site) can be used to support foodborne illness surveillance … States due to few affected individuals seeking medical care and lack of reporting to appropriate authorities. …
  • Evaluation of approaches that adjust for biases in participatory surveillance systems

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    Because the dynamics and severity of influenza in the US vary each season, yearly estimates of disease burden in the population are essential to evaluate interventions and allocate resources. The CDC uses data from a national health-care based… read more
    … resources. The CDC uses data from a national health-care based surveillance system and mathematical models to … systems by capturing individuals who do not seek medical care and allowing for a longitudinal view of illness burden. … resources. The CDC uses data from a national health-care based surveillance system and mathematical models to …
  • 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 … the post-policy change response of ILI-related ED visits to Children’s Hospital Boston, using Montreal … We observed a 34% decline in the rate of ILI-related ED visits among two- to four-year-olds for Children’s Hospital …
  • Automated chronic disease surveillance and visualization using electronic health record data

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    Chronic diseases are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity for Americans but public health surveillance for these conditions is limited. Health departments currently use telephone interviews, medical surveys, and death certificates to gather… read more
    … Mandl2,3 and Richard Platt1,2 1Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA; 2Harvard Medical School, … A1C and cholesterol levels), diabetes type and care (medications and medical nutrition counseling). … a rich, timely picture of chronic disease prevalence, care and complications for large populations. This …