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  • Simulation of Correlated Outbreak Signals for Early Aberration Reporting

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    The Early Aberration Reporting System was developed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help assist local and state health officials to focus limited resources on appropriate activities of public health… read more
    … temporal data sources, such as emergency department visits, drug store sales, and ambulatory clinic visits. Based on this premise, we provided correlated data … and temporal data sources, such as emergency de- partment visits, drug store sales, and ambulatory clinic visits. …
  • Challenges in adapting an natural language processing system for real-time surveillance

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    We are developing a Bayesian surveillance system for realtime surveillance and characterization of outbreaks that incorporates a variety of data elements, including free-text clinical reports. An existing natural language processing (… read more
    … University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: wendy.w.chapman@gmail.com Objective Adapt an existing natural language …
  • Education as a mechanism to reduce spread of brucellosis among at-risk populations in Uzbekistan

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    One goal of the Biological Threat Reduction Program of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency is the enhancement of surveillance of especially dangerous pathogens of both humans and animals within countries of the former Soviet Union. One of the… read more
    … of study subjects will be done from non- brucella-related visits to primary care centers by at-risk patients with no … Reference 1. Akhmedova MD, Kasimov OS, Imomaliev UN, Khodiev AV, Nikolich MJ, Clarke DV, et al. Brucellosis … IL. Page 93, abstract #8P. *Adkhamjon Mamatkulov E-mail: amamatku@bechtel.com (page number not for citation …
  • Characterizing Socioeconomic Disparities in the Burden of Influenza and RSV Using Surveillance Data

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    To measure the impact, within administrative geographic areas, of household income on rates of visits due influenza and RSV among children using real-time syndromic surveillance.
    … geographic areas, of household income on rates of visits due influenza and RSV among children using real-time … geo- graphic areas, of household income on rates of visits due influenza and RSV among children using real- time … tion chief complaint data from emergency department visits at Miami Children’s Hospital in Miami, FL. We …
  • Norovirus disease surveillance using Google search data

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    While norovirus is the leading cause of gastroenteritis in the United States, leading to an estimated 21 million illnesses per year [1], timely surveillance data are limited. Google Insights for Search (GIfS) is a new application that allows users… read more
    … *Rishi Desai E-mail: butterfinger81@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) …
  • Performance of a Syndromic Surveillance System for Detecting Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Following a Severe Windstorm

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    On December 14th, 2006, a severe windstorm in western Washington caused hundreds of thousands of residents to lose power. On December 15, 2006, there was a surge in emergency department (ED) visits for patients presenting with signs… read more
    … 15, 2006, there was a surge in emergency department (ED) visits for patients presenting with signs of acute carbon … the performance of our ED syndromic data for detecting visits associated with CO poisoning. Document … emergency de- partment (ED) syndromic data for detecting visits associated with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. …
  • Syndrome Development to Assess IDU, HIV, and Homelessness in MA Emergency Departments

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    In Massachusetts, syndromic surveillance (SyS) data have been used to monitor injection drug use and acute opioid overdoses within EDs. Currently, Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) SyS captures over 90% of ED visits statewide. These… read more
    … of Public Health (MDPH) SyS captures over 90% of ED visits statewide. These real-time data contain rich … clinical and demographic information used to categorize visits for population level public health surveillance. … have shown elevated rates of opioid overdose related ED visits, Emergency Medical Service incidents, and fatalities …
  • Coordinated Enhanced Surveillance with Healthcare Entities for Mass Gathering Events

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    Mass gatherings can result in morbidity and mortality from communicable and non-communicable diseases, injury, and bioterrorism. Therefore, it is important to identify event-related visits as opposed to community-related visits when conducting… read more
    … Therefore, it is important to identify event-related visits as opposed to community-related visits when conducting public health surveillance. Previous … to distinguish event-related emergency department(ED) visits from community-related ED visits 11 views Submitted …