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  • System Monitoring for Near Real-Time Surveillance for Infectious Diseases

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    Events of recent years, particularly concern about a possible avian (H5N1) influenza pandemic, have focused increasing attention on the need for timely surveillance, with real time surveillance as the ultimate goal. In a previous study, we reported… read more
    … The alerts can be sent through various channels (i.e. E-mail, pager, cell or home phones). During the pilot, the …
  • Assessing the Impact of Syndromic Surveillance Systems on Routine Public Health Practice: Identifying and Evaluating Syndromic Signals

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    We describe the development and implementation of a protocol for identifying syndromic signals and for assessing their value to public health departments for routine (non-bioterrorism) purposes. The specific objectives of the evaluation are to… read more
    … state’s web-based health alert network [5] or via e-mail from the surveillance system’s data center. Each …
  • Automated Generation of Hypothesis of Processes Causing Clusters

    Content Type: Abstract

    Computational and statistical methods for detecting disease clusters, such as the spatial scan statistic, have become frequently used tools in epidemiology. However, they simply tell the user where a cluster is, and leave the… read more
    … State University. Jamison Conley, Jamison.Conley@mail.wvu.edu Source code available at …
  • Bird Flu: The Media and Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    In the past, the media has served a source of data for syndromic surveillance of infectious disease, whether it is outbreaks of disease in animals or humans resulting in illness or death.  More often than not, the reverse is true; data based on… read more
    … Cynthia F. Racer, MA, MPH Cyndi_genome2000@yahoo.com, or mail, c/o CRISIS, PO Box 4853, New York, NY 10185 Advances …
  • Influenza surveillance using inpatient health information exchange data

    Content Type: Abstract

    During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) temporarily made lab-confirmed influenza hospitalizations and deaths reportable. As reporting influenza hospitalizations is resource intensive for hospitals,… read more
    … Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA E-mail: natasha.close@doh.wa.gov Objective To evaluate the …
  • BioSense program redesign

    Content Type: Abstract

    The BioSense program’s mission is to support and improve public health surveillance infrastructure and human capacity required to monitor (with minimal lag) critical population health indicators of the scope and severity of acute… read more
    … McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada E-mail: tik2@cdc.gov Objective The objective of this study is …
  • Anticipatory surveillance for mass gatherings: a novel application of mass media surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Public health and medical research on mass gatherings (MGs) are emerging disciplines. MGs present surveillance challenges quite different from routine outbreak monitoring, including prompt detection of outbreaks of an unusual … read more
    … University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA E-mail: Sumiko.Mekaru@childrens.harvard.edu Objective To …
  • Epibasket: a prototype web tool aimed to speed up and standardize the epidemiological investigation of an outbreak

    Content Type: Abstract

    The detailed analysis of the epidemiological literature on the 2003 SARS epidemic published in peer reviewed journals has shown that a majority (78%) of the epidemiological articles were submitted after the epidemic had ended,… read more
    … Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China E-mail: Alain-jacques.valleron@upmc.fr Objective This paper …