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  • Description of the quality of public health case reports received at a local health department and potential impact on workflow

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    When a reportable condition is identified, clinicians and laboratories are required to report the case to public health authorities. These case reports help public health officials to make informed decisions and implement appropriate… read more
    … at Salt Lake Valley health department in 2009 and 2010. Document … the health department, we used a data collection form to document whether certain core data elements such as ‘patient …
  • Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot

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    The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more
    … Distribute project ILI syndrome standardization pilot. Document … ILI-s concepts and coding as closely as possible, and to document and share local ILI-narrow and ILI-broad code …
  • Public health surveillance after the Haiti earthquake: the Florida experience

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    On 12 January 2010 at 1652 hours local time, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and created enormous devastation. Florida, as the state closest to Haiti, became an initial focal point… read more
    … during or after the earthquake, and evacuated to Florida. Document … was made to county health department (CHD) staff to document cases of reportable diseases in the state web-based …
  • Real-time surveillance of influenza/pneumonia deaths: new strategies using grid computing and natural language processing

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    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 …
  • Identifying water contamination from syndromic surveillance signals

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    The EPA Water Security initiative contamination warning system detection strategy involves the use of multiple monitoring and surveillance components for timely detection of drinking water contamination in the distribution system… read more
    … Reference 1 US EPA. Water Security Initiative: Interim Guidance on Developing an Operational Strategy for …
  • Identifying water contamination from syndromic surveillance signals

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    The EPA Water Security initiative contamination warning system (CWS) detection strategy involves the use of multiple monitoring and surveillance components for timely detection of drinking water contamination in the distribution system. The… read more
    … Reference 1 US EPA. Water Security Initiative: Interim Guidance on Developing an Operational Strategy for …
  • Evaluating Syndrome Definitions in the Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology

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    The Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology (ESSO) is an open source terminological ontology designed to facilitate the text mining of clinical reports in English [1,2]. At the core of ESSO are 279 clinical concepts (for example, fever, confusion,… read more
    … encoded in the Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology. Document … Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Health Document Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI 2011); …
  • Use of syndromic surveillance in decision making during the H1N1 pandemic in Ontario, Canada

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    For public health surveillance to achieve its desired purpose of reducing morbidity and mortality, surveillance data must be linked to public health response. While there is evidence of the growing popularity of syndromic surveillance (1,2), the… read more
    … rather vaccine availability and ministerial guidance acted as drivers for these decisions. Conclusions …