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  • Forecasting high-priority surveillance regions: a socioeconomic model

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    It has been suggested that changes in various socioeconomic, environmental and biological factors have been drivers of emerging and reemerging infectious disease, although few have assessed these relationships on a global scale. … read more
    … Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA; and 2ProMED-Mail, International Society for Infectious Diseases, … database; a Human Development Index (HDI) reported by the UN Development Programme; and a Democ- racy Index developed …
  • The Potential of Syndromic Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness in the Community for Early Warning of Institutional Gastroenteritis Outbreaks

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    In 2004, the NSW Public Health Real-time Emergency Department Surveillance System operating in and around Sydney, Australia signalled a large-scale increase in Emergency Department (ED) visits for gastrointestinal illness (GI). A subsequent… read more
    … a large-scale increase in Emergency Department (ED) visits for gastrointestinal illness (GI). A subsequent … the association between short-term variation in ED visits for GI with short-term variation in institutional … between short-term variation in Emergency Department (ED) visits for gastrointestinal illness (GI) with short-term …
  • Active Surveillance of Foodborne Illnesses Using a Novel Syndrome Database

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    Poison control centers (PCCs) provide a new source of real-time symptom data that could enhance surveillance systems for foodborne disease outbreaks (FBDOs) through more timely public health department interventions. PCCs provide treatment advice to… read more
    … bloody diar- rhea, fever or illness ≥ 4 days); and 5) un-intentional or intentional food contamination. We … Further Information: Mary Derby, mpderby@email.arizona.edu Advances in Disease Surveillance …
  • Weighted non-connectivity for detection of irregular clusters

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    Heuristics to detect irregularly shaped spatial clusters were reviewed recently. The spatial scan statistic is a widely used measure of the strength of clusters. However, other measures may also be useful, such as the geometric compactness… read more
    … Department, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil E-mail: sabjfn@gmail.com.br Objective Irregularly shaped clusters in maps …
  • Use of Laboratory Drug Sensitivity Tests and Prescription Practices in Malawi

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    Of the 13 million people in Malawi1 85% are rural and the country has high burden of under-five morbidity and mortality due to preventable infectious diseases. Respiratory, febrile and diarrhea diseases are the top 3 morbidity and mortality… read more
    … of Public Health Importance; 2003. *Rudia Lungu E-mail: rglungu@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS 2011 …
  • ICD-9 CM Based Sub-Syndrome Distributions in BioSense Hospital Data

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    Objective To examine sub-syndrome distributions among BioSense emergency department (ED) chief complaint and final diagnosis based data and to observe patterns by hospital system, age, and gender.
    … frequent ICD-9 CM based sub- syndromes. The proportion of visits contributing to the 20 most common ED chief complaint … S H ea da ch e H ea rt di se as e, V ira l i nf ec tio n, un sp ec ifi ed Sub-syndrome Vi si t c ou nt Unknown 0-3 …
  • Project Management and Design for Syndromic Surveillance Software

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    Management of software development projects involves a collection of well understood issues which are not often found in other project management areas. Identifying and managing these issues primarily requires that the manager is aware of the… read more
    … a useful project and one which reaches completion but is un- usable. Further Information: David Calvert, …
  • Identifying Clusters of Falls During the 2007-08 Winter Season in the BioSense System

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    The purposes of this study are to identify and characterize increases in emergency department (ED) visits for falls during the 2007-08 winter season.
    … and characterize increases in emergency department (ED) visits for falls during the 2007-08 winter season. Document … and characterize increases in emergency department (ED) visits for falls during the 2007-08 winter season. … United States [1] and accounted for 21% of injury-related visits to U.S. EDs in 2005 [2]. BioSense is a national …