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  • Canadian and United States Cross-Border Collaboration for Syndromic Surveillance: Overview and Recommendations from an International Society for Disease Surveillance

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    The objectives of this consultation, supported by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS), were to develop expert, consensus-based recommendations to promote Canadian and U.S. collaboration in using syndromic surveillance (SS) to… read more
    … in the United States: BIOSENSE and CDC activities, ESSENCE, state and local systems Details of systems in …
  • Check! Explore barriers and solutions to data sharing to BioSense 2.0

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    The benefits of inter-jurisdictional data sharing have been touted as a hallmark of BioSense 2.0, a cloud-based computing platform for syndromic surveillance. A key feature of the BioSense 2.0 platform is the ability to share data across… read more
    … analytic tools continue to be prominently used, chiefly ESSENCE (aberration detection software licensed by the John … do this” to “I know about/can do this well enough to train someone else”. A 1-point negative change could …
  • Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance

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    For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more
    … can help in drafting data use agreements, providing in essence a checklist of issues that must be addressed and …
  • Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?

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     Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more
    … for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE II). J Urban Health 2003;80(Suppl 1):i32–42. 22. …
  • Syndromic Surveillance and Climate Change, a Possible Use?

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    This paper assesses the possible interest of using of a syndromic surveillance system based on emergency departments (ED) and crude mortality for monitoring health effects of climate changes (CC).
    … the basis of diagnosis or diagnosis grouping. This fine graining is necessary because ED global activity is too …
  • A Closer Look at Developing a Statewide Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural State

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    This paper describes the issues associated with the creation of a statewide emergency department syndromic surveillance system, part of the South Carolina Aberration Alerting Network (SCAAN), in a predominately rural state.
    … and completing follow-up investigations were written and trainings for both regional and central office staff were …
  • Cluster Detection Incorporating Lagged Test Data

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    Using New York Cityís dead bird surveillance for West Nile Virus (WNV), this paper presents two explorations of the spatial cluster detection problem in which lagged test results are available for a random subset of observations. First, we… read more
    … years (2005 rr=1.68). However, using a baseline for the trailing 3 weeks drastically improved the clusters ability …
  • Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes

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    Emergency Department (ED) triage notes are clinical notes that expand upon the chief complaint, and are included in the AHIC minimum dataset for biosurveillance.1  Clinical notes can improve the accuracy of keyword-based syndromes but require… read more
    … of negation. The final sample included 177 visits con- taining negated terms, from 18 of the 19 NC DE- TECT …