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  • Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina

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    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the early event detection system that serves public health users across North Carolina. One important data source for this system is North… read more
    … Katrina evacuees’ hospital visits in North Carolina. Document … results of each report were exported into an electronic document, which was emailed to staff at the DPH. This report …
  • Respiratory Syndrome in the Netherlands in Relation to Pathogen Activity

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance may be suited for detection of emerging respiratory disease elevations that could pass undiagnosed. The syndromes under surveillance should then retrospectively reflect known respiratory pathogen activity. To validate this for… read more
    … by the seasonal dynamics of common respiratory pathogens. Document … data using the CDC syndrome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance. Time series of respiratory pathogens (Respiratory …
  • Using NC DETECT Summary Reports to Share Syndromic Information

    Content Type: Abstract

    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) provides early event detection and public health situational awareness to hospital-based and public health users statewide. Authorized users are currently able… read more
    … efficiency of sharing syndromic information statewide. Document … reports in NC DETECT allow epidemi- ologists to document the follow-up conducted on syndrome-based … as laboratory data. New interfaces will allow users to document lab results about respiratory illnesses, in- …
  • Surveillance System Evaluations Provide Evidence to Improve Public Health Practice

    Content Type: Abstract

    A simplified syndromic surveillance system, based on early detection and reporting of four core syndromes and immediate reporting of unusual events, was established across PICTs in 2010. An early evaluation of the system was undertaken to make… read more
    … to improve public health practice. This presentation documents how knowledge gathered through a syndromic … to improve public health practice. This presentation documents how knowledge gathered through a syndromic …
  • Automatic Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) New Monitoring and Classification

    Content Type: Abstract

    Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most devastating diseases of farm animals. There is a critical need for countries to have a global FMD situational awareness. Monitoring the online news sources for FMD-related news… read more
    … at the University of Arizona and the FMD Lab at UC Davis. Document … medical domain. Pant created a topical spider to get a document collection which can help to locate relevant … filters out the FMD news from the large collection of documents retrieved by our spiders. Then the news articles …
  • Syndromic Surveillance for Detection of Increased Morbidity and Mortality by Influenza

    Content Type: Abstract

    To evaluate whether a rise or shift in severe morbidity and mortality by influenza can be detected with syndromic surveillance.
    … by influenza can be detected with syndromic surveillance. Document … data using the CDC syn- drome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance. We plotted the counts of the hospital syndrome, …
  • Real-time surveillance of influenza/pneumonia deaths: new strategies using grid computing and natural language processing

    Content Type: Abstract

    Surveillance of deaths due to influenza and pneumonia using death records has the potential to be a relatively inexpensive and quick approach to tracking and detecting influenza and respiratory illness outbreaks; however, presently such a system… read more
    … system, and expand the number of reporting cities. Document … for Disease Control and Prevention. Death Certificate (document on the Internet). Center for Disease Control and …
  • A Framework for Evaluating Temporal Alerting Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance Systems

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    This abstract describes a suite of software utilities that have been developed for systematically evaluating the detection performance and robustness of univariate temporal alerting algorithms used in syndromic surveillance systems.
    … algorithms used in syndromic surveillance systems. Document … strengths and weaknesses prior to implementation. [This document was prepared under a grant from the Office of State … Security. Points of view or opinions ex- pressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily …