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  • Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System Based on General Practitioner's Data, SOS Medecins Bordeaux

    Content Type: Abstract

    To describe and evaluate the SOS Medecins Bordeaux syndromic surveillance system .
    … Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France, 2French Field Epidemiology Training Programme; French Institute for Public Health …
  • Preliminary Findings from the BioSense Evaluation Project

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    In October 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded four institutions, including Emory University, to conduct evaluations of the BioSense surveillance system. These evaluations include investigations of situations… read more
    … better public communications capacity, and bene- fits of training in incident command procedures. Interviews for …
  • Enhanced Surveillance Improved Timeliness and Sensitivity at the FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany

    Content Type: Abstract

    Security threats and the recent emergence of avian influenza in Europe have heightened the profile of and need for a good surveillance strategy during such events. The two main rationales for enhanced infectious disease surveillance at mass events… read more
    … Germany 2 European Programm on Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) Objective In this abstract, we describe the …
  • Where are the data? Accuracy of automated EHR reporting

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    Over 300 independent practices transmit monthly quality reports to a data warehouse using an automated process to summarize patient information into quality measures. All practices have implemented an EHR that captures clinical information to be… read more
    … Methods A total of 82 small practices received training on document- ing in the EHR to maximize performance … measures generally undercount performance. Despite train- ing, providers do not consistently document smoking …
  • Evaluation of Body Temperature to Classify Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) in a Syndromic Surveillance System

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    This study aims to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity and Positive Predictive Value (PPV) of body temperature measurements > 100.5 žF in relationship to laboratory confirmation of influenza and other ILI pathogens.
    … For each of ten codes used to profile the ILI syndrome in ESSENCE (the Department of Defense’s syndromic surveillance …
  • Using NLP on VA Electronic Medical Records to Facilitate Epidemiologic Case Investigations

    Content Type: Abstract

    A major goal of biosurveillance is the timely detection of an infectious disease outbreak. Once a disease has been identified, another very important goal is to find all known cases of the disease to assist public health… read more
    … the first stage, we used structured data and BioSense and ESSENCE ICD 9 codes on records during the study period …
  • Utilizing Emergency Department Data to Evaluate Primary Care Clinic Hours

    Content Type: Abstract

    In addition to utilizing syndromic surveillance data to respond to public health threats and prepare for major incidents, local health departments can utilize the data to examine patient volumes in the emergency departments (EDs) of… read more
    … hours’ impact on ED use. METHODS All 2007 ED visits from ESSENCE for the urban public hospital were analyzed for …
  • Comparison of Aberration Detection Algorithms for Syndromic Surveillance

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    This paper describes a study of various aberration detection algorithms currently used in syndromic surveillance and one based on artificial neural networks developed at Guelph. The goal of the research is not to select one ìwinningî algorithm but… read more
    … By applying the moving average algorithm to a set of training data, various thresholds can be tested that yield …