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Adverse Drug Events: Insights From Google Search Volume
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Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. However, post-marketing surveillance systems are passive and reporting is generally not mandated. Thus, many ADEs go unreported, and it is difficult to estimate and/or… read more… report-in full. JAMA. 2007;298:2185�7. *Jacob Simmering E-mail: jacob-simmering@uiowa.edu (page number not for … -
Changes in Alcohol-Related Travel Behavior due to an Under 21 Ordinance
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Alcohol abuse is one of the major leading causes of preventable mortality in the United States. Binge drinking or excessive alcohol consumption, categorized as a pattern of drinking that brings a person's blood alcohol concentration to 0.08, has… read more… Council/under21FAQ.pdf. *Tina Mccarty E-mail: tina-mccarty@uiowa.edu (page number not for citation … -
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… system based on collection of aggregate data for ED visits from existing SS systems. This project has the … would be appropriate to “pick up the phone and call” or e-mail a colleague across the border. In addition, both the … -
Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to Disease Emergence in Isolated Regions
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Argus is an event-based surveillance system which captures information from publicly available Internet media in multiple languages. The information is contextualized and indications and warning (I&W) of disease are identified. Reports are… read more… &id�40987&Itemid�56. *Wai-Ling Mui E-mail: mui@isis.georgetown.edu (page number not for citation … -
HealthSIS: a solution for Local Public Health Reporting and Surveillance in KY
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Multiple options (1,2) are available for health care provider organizations to receive assistance in demonstrating compliance with meaningful use requirements for public health reporting (3). A certified EHR solution is a requirement for… read more… *Timothy Ellis E-mail: tim.ellis@emergint.com (page number not for citation … -
Directionally Sensitive Multivariate Statistical Process Control Procedures with Application to Syndromic Surveillance
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Current syndromic surveillance systems run multiple simultaneous univariate procedures, each focused on detecting an outbreak in a single data stream. Multivariate procedures have the potential to better detect some types of outbreaks, but most of… read more… with the CDC's aggregate data on “percentage of visits for influenza-line illness reported by sentinel … to moderate in the United States.” The percentage of visits in the South Atlantic region peaked in February–March … was characterized as “mild,” with the percentage of visits in the South Atlantic region peaking in … -
Evaluation of Microbiology Orders from a Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory as a Potential Data Source for Early Outbreak Detection
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Animals continue to be recognized as a potential source of surveillance data for detecting emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism preparedness, pandemic influenza preparedness, and detection of other zoonotic diseases. Detection of disease… read more… rigorous surveillance efforts, increased veter- inary visits in reaction to a public service campaign, or other … -
Using quad trees to generate grid points for applications in geographic disease surveillance
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In this study, we compare two methods of generating grid points to enable efficient geographic cluster detection when the original geographical data are prohibitively numerous. One method generates uniform grid points, and the other employs quad… read more… Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5J 1S6 (e-mail: nwy@ualberta.ca). 1 Advances in Disease Surveillance …