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  • Predictors of vaccination uptake for the 2009 influenza pandemic (H1N1) in Montreal

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    Work on vaccination timing and promotion largely precedes the 2009 pandemic. Post-pandemic studies examining the wide range of local vaccination efforts mostly have been limited to surveys assessing the role of administrative strategies, logistical… read more
    … a pandemic. Vaccine. 2010;29:5519�25. *Luc de Montigny E-mail: luc.demontigny@mail.mcgill.ca (page number not for citation purpose) Table …
  • Electronic Surveillance for Injury Prevention Using a Physician-Operated System

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    When hazardous materials or products emerge in the market, injury prevention researchers take action to promote awareness and legislation with the goal to prevent further injuries. This cannot be achieved without reliable data on trends and outcomes… read more
    … Marija Borjan* and Margaret Lumia Role of Influenza in ED Visits and Hospitalizations of Adults Over 65 Years in … 2, Umashanthi Pavalanathan1, 3 and Courtney D. Corley1 ED Visits Related to Marijuana Exposures in the Denver … Case Detection of Marijuana-Related Emergency Department Visits Kathryn H. DeYoung*1, Robert Beum1, Yushiuan Chen2, …
  • Klompas et al. Respond: Automated Public Health Reporting-- Possible with a Coalition of the Willing

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    Professor Hripcsak rightly points out some of the challenges inherent in disseminating and sustaining robust information systems to automate the detection and reporting of notifiable diseases using data from electronic medical records (EMR). New… read more
    … and Prevention, 133 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215 (e-mail: mklompas@partners.org). 1 Advances in Disease … definitions. When a new code is detected, ESP sends an e-mail alert to ESP administrators, asking them to review and …
  • Hepatitis A Surveillance Evaluation in Mafraq Health Directorate, Jordan 2010

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    Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is usually mild in childhood but more severe in adolescents and adults'. An estimated 1.4 million cases of HAV infection occur annually in the world. The case-fatality rate among patients of all ages is… read more
    … Diseases Directorate, Jordan MOH, 2009. *Ghazi Sharkas E-mail: ghazisharkas@yahoo.com (page number not for citation … Reporting procedure is telephone based and ‘regular mail’ based, which is affordable to all reporting centers …
  • Aiding the practice of tuberculosis control: a decision support model to predict transmission

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    A new TB case can be classified as: 1) a source case for transmission leading to other, secondary active TB cases; 2) a secondary case, resulting from recent transmission; or 3) an isolated case, uninvolved in recent transmission (i.e. neither… read more
    … Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2008;12:480�92. *Hiroshi Mamiya E-mail: hiroshi.mamiya@mail.mcgill.ca (page number not for citation purpose) Table …
  • Implications of ICD-9/10 CM Transition for Public Health Surveillance: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned from Multiple Sectors of Public Health

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    This roundtable provided a forum for a diverse set of representatives from the local, state, federal and international public health care sectors to share tools, resources, experiences, and promising practices regarding the potential impact of the… read more
    … Keywords ICD-9; ICD-10; Transition *Peter Hicks E-mail: phicks@cdc.gov Online Journal of Public Health …
  • North Dakota Electronic Animal Health Surveillance System

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    The North Dakota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (NDVDL) manages animal disease laboratory tests, results and diagnostic services using the software VetStar Animal Disease Diagnostic System (VADDS) (Advanced Technology Corporation, Ramsey, NJ). The… read more
    … Automated reports developed using SAS are distributed via email to designated personnel at the NDDoH and Department of …
  • Multilingual Chief Complaint Classifier

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    Free text chief complaints (CCs), which may be recorded in different languages, are an important data source for syndromic surveillance systems. For automated syndromic surveillance, CCs must be classified into predefined syndromic categories to… read more
    … 11(11), 1170-1176. Further Information: Hsin-Min Lu, hmlu@email.arizona.edu; http://ai.arizona.edu Advances in Disease …