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Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System Based on General Practitioner's Data, SOS Medecins Bordeaux
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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
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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 … -
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 … -
Design and development of a standards-based model to publish public health reporting criteria
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State laws mandate clinicians and laboratories to report occurrences of reportable diseases to public health entities. For this purpose, a set of case-reporting specifications are published and maintained by public health departments… read more… Translational Research in Public Health Informatics, NLM Training Grant # 5T15LM007124 (DR). Reference 1 M’ikanatha … -
Document classification toward efficient event-based biosurveillance
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Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human health. Online documents, such as news articles on the Internet, have commonly been the … read more… of classifiers, which include class-imbalance in training data sets, that is, few labeled irrelevant (or … -
Syndromic Surveillance System User Satisfaction and Attitudes
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With the recent emphasis on public health preparedness, health departments are identifying new ways to prepare for emergencies. There has been a significant increase in the number of syndromic surveillance systems operating in… read more… given to each user of the system after they attended a training session to introduce the RI RODS system. RESULTS …