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The Impact of Standardized Decision Support on Syndromic Surveillance in Alberta
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Syndromic surveillance uses pre-diagnostic data to inform communicable disease prevention and control. Among health zones in the province of Alberta, Canada, practices employed by public health when using elementary school illness-cause absenteeism… read more -
Correlation of school absenteeism and laboratory results for Flu A in Alberta, Canada
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Rates of student absenteeism in schools have been mainly used to detect outbreaks in schools and prompt public health action to stop local transmission. A report by Kim Mogto et al. stated that aggregated counts of school absenteeism (SAi… read more -
An Early Warning Influenza Model using Alberta RealTime Syndromic Data (ARTSSN)
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Standardized electronic pre-diagnostic information is routinely collected in Alberta, Canada. ARTSSN is an automated real-time surveillance data repository able to rapidly refresh data that include school absenteeism information, calls about health… read more