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  • The validity of emergency department influenza-like-illness (ILI) for laboratory-confirmed influenza in children

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    Syndromic surveillance systems use electronic health-related data to support near-real time disease surveillance. Over the last 10 years, the use of ILI syndromes defined from emergency department (ED) data has become an increasingly accepted… read more
    … time of study. Results We studied approximately 14,000 visits during the discrete year and 32,000 visits during concomitant years. Viral results were … the official views of the CDC. *Carla Rodriguez E-mail: carlarod@uw.edu (page number not for citation purpose) …
  • Estimating the incidence of influenza cases that present to emergency departments

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    Our laboratory previously established the value of over-the-counter (OTC) sales data for the early detection of disease outbreaks. We found that thermometer sales (TS) increased significantly and early during influenza (flu) season.… read more
    … University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: ricardov@pitt.edu Objective We developed a model that … the following formula, which assumes that TS and ED visits are proportional to population size (pop) and that … of predicting outcomes that are related to flu ED visits based on TS. Our results suggest that the use of TS, …
  • in silico Surveillance: Highly detailed agent-based models for surveillance system evaluation and design

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    Modern public health surveillance systems have great potential for improving public health. However, evaluating the performance of surveillance systems is challenging because examples of baseline disease distribution in the population are limited to… read more
    … seeking behavior and a surveillance system for outpatient visits. The resulting in silico surveil- lance data contain … specified surveillance system create a data stream of ILI visits. Outbreaks of influenza are artificially inserted … evaluation; outbreak detection; SaTScan *Bryan Lewis E-mail: blewis@vbi.vt.edu (page number not for citation …
  • How did specific specialties and new sentinel providers affect ILINet data post 2009 A/H1N1 recognition

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    The United States outpatient Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet) is one of the five systems used for influenza surveillance in the United States. In Pennsylvania, ILINet providers are asked to report, every Monday, the total number… read more
    … of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Harrisburg, PA, USA E-mail: owsimwale@state.pa.us Objective The objective of this … providers reporting every week and the proportion of ILI visits reported (r!0.05). We also noted a significant …
  • Exercise Demonstrates Effective Syndromic Surveillance Response Process

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    Currently, Indiana monitors emergency department patient chief complaint data from 73 geographically dispersed hospitals. These data are analyzed using the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-… read more
    … follow-up. An ISDH field epidemiologist was contacted by email, advised of the alert, provided an ESSENCE URL for the … and used anthrax as the agent. Twelve of the 14 patient visits generating the respiratory alert were part of the …
  • Use of syndromic surveillance in decision making during the H1N1 pandemic in Ontario, Canada

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    For public health surveillance to achieve its desired purpose of reducing morbidity and mortality, surveillance data must be linked to public health response. While there is evidence of the growing popularity of syndromic surveillance (1,2), the… read more
    … Health Prep. 2009;3(Suppl):S29�36. *Rachel Savage E-mail: rachel.savage@oahpp.ca (page number not for citation … intensive care unit and ventilator use data, immunization visits, flu assessment centre visits and provincial surveillance bulletins and …
  • 911 and EMS data for detection of drinking water contamination

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    The Public Health Surveillance (PHS) component (one of five monitoring and surveillance components deployed in the Cincinnati drinking water contamination warning system) functions to detect public health incidents resulting from… read more
    … and 3Emergint Technologies, Inc, Louisville, KY, USA E-mail: dangel.chrissy@epa.gov Objective This paper describes … For both 911 and EMS, once an alarm is generated, an email notification is sent to the local public health …
  • Rapid Identification of Pneumonias in BioSense Data Using Radiology Text Reports

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    BioSense currently receives demographic and chief complaint data from more than 360 hospitals and text radiology reports from 36 hospitals. Detection of pneumonia is an important as several Category A bioterrorism diseases as well as avian influenza… read more
    … reports of chest X-rays performed for 42,510 hospital visits (which corresponds to 34,883 patients) and the … such as BioSense. Contact: Armen Asatryan, MD, MPH E-mail: armen.asatryan@saic.com Advances in Disease …