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Argus: A Global Detection and Tracking System for Biological Events
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Objective. This paper describes Project Argus, a novel foreign biological event detection and tracking system.… [accessed 2005 May 23]. 3. Woodall J, Calisher CH. ProMED-mail: background and purpose. Emerg Infect Dis. 2001;7(3 … diseases: lessons from the first 10 years of ProMED- mail. Arch Med Res. 2005 Nov- Dec;36(6):724-30. Advances in … -
Sample size and spatial cluster detection power
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Prior work demonstrates the extent to which sampling strategies reduce the power to detect clusters.1 Additionally, the power to detect clusters can vary across space.2 A third, unexplored, effect is how much the sample size impacts the power of… read more… West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA E-mail: Jamison.Conley@mail.wvu.edu Objective In syndromic surveillance settings, … -
Automated Data Acquisition: Data Collection and Integration for the Alberta Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance Net (ARTSSN)
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The ability to provide real time syndromic surveillance throughout the Capital Health Region is currently undeveloped. There are limited mechanisms for routine real time surveillance of disease or conditions of public health… read more… concerns– 130 selected protocols • Emergency Departments visits chief com- plaints, discharge diagnosis and relevant … results with 130 proto- cols: • 1,800,000 emergency room visits • Absenteeism records of K-6 students, track- ing on … -
Missouri's Syndromic Surveillance Experience
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This abstract describes MissouriÃs experience with syndromic surveillance. Missouri has expanded from acquiring pre-tabulated data from volunteers to receiving patient-level data via electronic feeds from 85 hospitals across the state processed… read more… of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) numbers of visits within predefined syndrome groups and the total number of visits. Many sites that initially volunteered to report HASS … -
Characterizing Repeated Outbreak Patterns in Influenza Time Series
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In some influenza seasons, morbidity and mortality closely follow the expected seasonal variation. In these years, approaches such as SerflingÃs model and seasonal-based syndromic outbreak detectors, in use in EARS, work well. In other years,… read more… data sets, including hospital emer- gency department visits coded for respiratory infec- tion and ambulatory care visits coded for several syndromes. In those cases, Poisson … -
Utilization of the Syndromic Surveillance Framework for Detection of Heat-Related illnesses
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The use of syndromic surveillance in Tulsa County began as an attempt to identify symptoms associated with Category A agents, namely Anthrax. The underlying premise for adopting the system was the hope that an astute clinician,… read more… summer months often result in increased emergency room visits with heat-related complaints such as dehydration, … cramps and loss of consciousness. Outcomes for these visits range from mild therapies to hospitalization for more … -
The influence of address errors on detecting outbreaks of campylobacteriosis
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Mandatory notification to public health of priority communicable diseases (CDs) is a cornerstone of disease prevention and control programs. Increasingly, the addresses of CD cases are used for spatial monitoring and cluster detection… read more… services Sociaux de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada E-mail: kate.zinszer@mail.mcgill.ca Objective To examine, via a simulation study, … -
Surveillance for Health Effects Secondary to an Expected Rise in Air Pollution
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Every year the United States generates close to 300 million scrap tires. Due to their high energygenerating capacity, tires can be used as a fuel source (tire-derived fuel, or TDF). In 2006 a paper mill located less than 3 miles… read more… average for comparison. Hospital and outpatient clinic visits were monitored for increases in shortness of breath, … with a mechanism for linking these reports with actual visits to a health care provider. Surveillance that is more …