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  • Applications of Syndromic Surveillance in Resource Poor Settings: A Series of Case Studies

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    Particularly in resource-poor settings, syndromic surveillance has been proposed as a feasible solution to the challenges in meeting the new disease surveillance requirements included in the World Health Organization's International Health… read more
    … syndrome; developing countries *Larissa May E-mail: larissa.may@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS 2011 …
  • Preferences and Perceptions of Biosurveillance System Users - Results from a Recent Survey

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    “The ultimate measure of whether a surveillance system has achieved the optimal balance of attributes lies in its usefulness.” No one is better qualified to comment on usefulness than the users. As system developers, we are well advised to… read more
    … Only 29.7% answered that accuracy was more important than un- derstanding the methods used. Food recalls (90.2%), … potential data sources, other than emergency department visits, that users felt were useful to essential for …
  • Automated Information Integration from Heterogeneous Data Sources: A Semantic Web Approach

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    Integration of information from multiple disparate and heterogeneous sources is a labor and resource intensive task. Heterogeneity can come about in the way data is represented or in the meaning of data in different contexts. Semantic Web… read more
    … is to provide a single and uniform query interface to un- derlying data. The Semantic Web is a framework … and medical records entries from emergency department visits, a combination of struc- tured, semi-structured and …
  • Nontraumatic Oral Health Classification for Alternative Use of Syndromic Data

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    Lack of access to regular dental care often results in costly, oral health visits to EDs that could otherwise have been prevented or managed by a dentist (1). Most studies on oral health-related visits to EDs have used a wide range of… read more
    … regular dental care often results in costly, oral health visits to EDs that could otherwise have been prevented or … by a dentist (1). Most studies on oral health-related visits to EDs have used a wide range of classifications from … timely burden estimates of nontraumatic oral health visits for NC EDs. Objective: To develop a nontraumatic oral …
  • Monitoring Dynamic Tempo-Spatial Changes of Influenza-Like Illness During 2005-2007 through Sentinal-Physician Surveillance in Taiwan Using Ring Maps

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    The global health threat of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been increasing rapidly in the world since the crosscountry outbreaks during 2003-04. In South and East Asia, the human influenza A (H3N2) was proved to be seeded… read more
    … Taipei, Taiwan (10020), Republic of China ( R.O.C.) E-mail: <dachianpig@gmail.com> OBJECTIVE This study describes a visualizing ring …
  • Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance System Evaluation, Ebonyi State Nigeria, 2017

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    Nigeria is one of the three countries in the world with ongoing wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission, alongside Afghanistan and Pakistan. Nigeria also experiences outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2). Following the… read more
    … standards/en// *Izuchukwu F. Obi E-mail: obifrank03@gmail.com …
  • OutbreakMD: tracking and identifying disease outbreaks in post-earthquake Haiti

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    HealthMap is a real-time disease epidemic intelligence tracking and visualization system that collects information from general news media, individual first-hand reports and public health sources around the world. Gaps in this effort clearly occur… read more
    … Program, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA E-mail: chunara@gmail.com Objective OutbreakMD is a mobile Web application …
  • Quantifying the potential benefit of early detection for preventing morbidity and mortality: a simulation study of cryptosporidium outbreak

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    Many studies evaluate the timeliness and accuracy of outbreak detection algorithms used in syndromic surveillance. Of greater interest, however, is defining the outcome associated with improved detection. In case of a waterborne cryptosporidiosis… read more
    … de Santé Publique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada E-mail: okhmatovskaia@gmail.com Objective To quantitatively assess the benefit of …