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The Spatial and Temporal Anatomy of Seasonal Influenza, 1972-2007
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Seasonality has a major effect on the spatial and temporal (i.e. spatiotemporal) dynamics of natural systems and their populations (1). Although the seasonality of influenza in temperate countries is widely recognized, inter-regional spread of… read more… Natl Acad Sci USA. 2006;103:2015�20. *Bianca Malcolm E-mail: blm2115@columbia.edu (page number not for citation … -
Surveillance of poison center data using the National Poison Data System web service
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Oregon Health Authority (OHA), in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, recently implemented Oregon ESSENCE, an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance system. One way to strengthen syndromic surveillance… read more… data sources; resource-limited settings *Melissa Powell E-mail: melissa.e.powell@state.or.us (page number not for … -
Online surveillance of multivariate small area disease data: A Bayesian approach
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The ability to rapidly detect any substantial change in disease incidence is of critical importance to facilitate timely public health response and, consequently, to reduce undue morbidity and mortality. Unlike testing methods (1, 2), modeling for… read more… Stat Meth Med Res. 2005;14:61�82. *Ana Corberán-Vallet E-mail: corberan@musc.edu (page number not for citation … -
The Exploration of Various Methods for Shigella Outbreak Detection
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Shigella remains highly infectious in the United States and rapid detection of Shigella outbreaks is crucial for disease control and timely public health actions. The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) implemented a Communicable Disease… read more… public health investigations as needed. *Xin Jin E-mail: xxj01@health.state.ny.us (page number not for citation … -
Confusing Standards: Common Misconceptions about Disease Surveillance Standards
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Domains go through phases of existence, and the electronic disease surveillance domain is no different. This domain has gone from an experimental phase, where initial prototyping and research tried to define what was possible, to a utility phase… read more… Level_7 (as of August 31, 2011). *Wayne Loschen E-mail: wayne.loschen@jhuapl.edu (page number not for citation … -
Sufficient reduction methods for multivariate surveillance
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Parallel surveillance, separate monitoring of each continuous series, has been widely used for multivariate surveillance, however, it has severe limitations. Firstly, it faces the problem of multiplicity from multiple testing. Also, the ignorance of… read more… J Appl Stat. 2010;37:2089�100. *Sawaporn Siripanthana E-mail: smp08ss@sheffield.ac.uk (page number not for citation … -
Impact of training on Disease Surveillance and Notification Officers in Nigeria
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Public health surveillance (also called field epidemiology) as defined by Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the ongoing systematic, collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome specific data essential to the planning ,… read more… and Response. September 2005. *Olawunmi Adeoye E-mail: wunmiolat@yahoo.com (page number not for citation … -
Subsidized laboratory testing as an incentive for improved livestock disease reporting
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Livestock owners normally pay the full cost of disease testing. As a result the number of laboratory submissions is dependent on the owner's perception that testing is beneficial. This decreases the likelihood of an accurate diagnosis and biases the… read more… effort and support with this project. *Kathy Zurbrigg E-mail: kathy.zurbrigg@ontario.ca (page number not for …