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Automated Creation of High-Quality Maps Using SAS and Python
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New York City ED syndromic surveillance data uses SaTScan to detect spatial signals. SaTScan analysis has been integrated into SAS since 2002, and signal maps have been generated from SAS since 2003. Signal maps are created occasionally to… read more… for syndromic analysis output; results were sent via e- mail to various users and saved to a network drive. RESULTS … -
21st Century Health Care Demands New Models for Population Health Data Aggregation and Sharing: A Federated Approach
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This paper describes the value of a distributed approach to population health efforts that span clinical research, quality measurement and public health. The goal of the paper is to challenge the traditional paradigm which relies on centralized data… read more… Further Information: Jill Cooper, MS E-mail: jcooper@markle.org Advances in Disease Surveillance … -
Malaria risk assessment through Remote Sensing and MultiCriteria Evaluation in Madagascar
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Malaria remains a major public health problem in Madagascar. Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) is the adopted strategy for malaria control in the CHs and Fringe regions of Madagascar. Remotely sensed data analysis combined with Multi-Criteria… read more… 10.1016/0022-2496(77)90033-5. *Anthonio Rakotoarison E-mail: anthonio@pasteur.mg … -
Optimal sequential management decisions for influenza outbreaks
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Management policies for influenza outbreaks balance the expected morbidity and mortality costs versus the cost of intervention policies under outbreak parameter uncertainty. Previous approaches have not updated parameter estimates as data arrives… read more… of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA E-mail: niemi@pstat.ucsb.edu Objective This abstract … -
Impact of including physician’s prescribing directions on calculations of medication possession ratios
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Medication adherence studies typically use pharmacy-dispensing data to infer drug exposures. These studies often require calculations reflecting the intensity and duration of drug exposure. The typical approach to estimating duration of drug… read more… Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: candace.hayden@hsc.utah.edu Introduction Medication … -
Maryland ESSENCE expansion to incorporate prescription medication data
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Maryland has a powerful syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE, which is used for the early detection of disease outbreaks, suspicious patterns of illness, and public health emergencies. ESSENCE incorporates traditional and nontraditional health… read more… of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MD, USA E-mail: saslam@dhmh.state.md.us Objective The purpose of this … -
BioSINE: an intuitive visualization tool to enhance collaboration between research and practice in disease surveillance
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Funded by the Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, we developed the BioSINE toolset to provide visualization and collaboration capabilities to improve the accessibility and utility of health surveillance… read more… MA, USA; and 2Northrop Grumman Corp., Atlanta, GA, USA E-mail: ppicciano@aptima.com Objective BioSINE strives to … -
Creating a fast and flexible syndromic surveillance reporting system
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Syndromic surveillance systems significantly enhance the ability of Public Health Units to identify, quantify, and respond to disease outbreaks. Existing systems provide excellent classification, identification, and alerting functions,… read more… USA; and 5AMITA Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada E-mail: jason.morin@nrc.gc.ca Objective The objective of this …