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  • A web-based platform to support text mining of clinical reports for public health surveillance

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    PyConTextKit is a web-based platform that extracts entities from clinical text and provides relevant metadata - for example, whether the entity is negated or hypothetical - using simple lexical clues occurring in the window of text surrounding the… read more
    … Analysis. Bled, Slovenia; 2011:75�82. *Annie T. Chen E-mail: atchen@email.unc.edu (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS …
  • Comparison of ED and Urgent Care ILI Surveillance Data From the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak

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    Syndromic surveillance of health care data such as the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9), codes related to Influenza-Like-Illness (ILI), was used to track the progression of the 2009 Fall Novel H1N1 Outbreak in the… read more
    … care centers was 0.298 in comparison with 0.125 for ED visits during the 2009 Fall Novel H1N1 influenza outbreak. … of disease outbreaks. MMWR. 2005. *Robert Redwood E-mail: rredwood@uwhealth.org (page number not for citation …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Pilot Project in Dongcheng District of Beijing China

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    Syndromic surveillance had been implemented in Dongcheng District with a view to probing into the feasibility of establishing a syndromic surveillance system in major Chinese cities, sieving syndromic surveillance indicators… read more
    … due to cough(chart4).11 hospitals have report 4,000,643 visits, including fever, …
  • Google Flu Trends: Correlation with Emergency Department Influenza Rates and Crowding Metrics

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    Emergency Departments (ED) supply critical infrastructure to provide medical care in the event of a disaster or disease outbreak, including seasonal and pandemic influenza [1]. Already over-crowded and stretched to near-capacity, influenza activity… read more
    … strong correlation with local influenza cases and ED ILI visits, providing first time evidence of its utility for … query data. Nature. 2009;457:1012�4. *Andrea Dugas E-mail: adugas1@jhmi.edu (page number not for citation …
  • School Absenteeism Surveillance Data during the 2009 Influenza A/H1N1 Pandemic

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    In April 2009, a novel strain of influenza A was detected in Mexico, which quickly spread to the United States and the rest of the world. In response to the pandemic, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (NH DHHS) developed a… read more
    … over-the-counter sales of cough and cold medications and visits to emergency depart- ments (Fig. 2). At the peek of … H1N1; influenza; New Hampshire *Kenneth Dufault E-mail: kadufault@dhhs.state.nh.us (page number not for …
  • Electronic Tracking of Influenza-like Illness Incidence in an Outpatient Population

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    Using an electronic health record (EHR) system, we tracked an outpatient population from a series of primary care providers to identify influenza-like illness (ILI) as part of a multi-state effort directed by the Centers for Disease Control and… read more
    … obtain practice characteristics (i.e., number of patient visits, type of practice and age distribution) and … Ann Intern Med. 2007;147:549�52. *Steve Di Lonardo E-mail: sdilonardo@health.nyc.gov (page number not for …
  • Pandemic H1N1-Related ICU Rates According to Race/Ethnic Groups in Massachusetts

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    Unpublished statewide 2009 H1N1 epidemiological data suggests that rates of lab-confirmed H1N1-related hospitalization were three to four times higher in Black and Hispanic populations compared to White, non-Hispanic populations (Alfred DeMaria,… read more
    … and significantly lower risk of having H1N1-related ICU visits. Logistic regression models indicate that these … Am J Public Health. 2011;101:285�93. *Hilary Placzek E-mail: hilary.placzek@umassmed.edu (page number not for …
  • Natural Disasters and Use of Syndromic Surveillance: Austin, Texas Metro Area 2011

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    Emergency management during a disaster entails innumerable challenges. Each disaster uniquely shapes the types and timing of information needed both to manage the disaster and to measure the impact on available resources, the environment, and… read more
    … utilizes chief complaint data from emergency department visits in 14 Austin Metro area hospitals; and (2) National … management; natural disaster; public health *Judy Henry E-mail: judy.henry@austintexas.gov (page number not for …