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A Nonparametric Scan Statistic for Multivariate Disease Surveillance
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We present a new method for multivariate outbreak detection, the ìnonparametric scan statisticî (NPSS). NPSS enables fast and accurate detection of emerging space-time clusters using multiple disparate data streams, including nontraditional data… read more… into five Allegheny County datasets: respiratory ED visits, three streams of OTC data (cough/cold, antifever, … -
Utility of Syndromic Surveillance for Investigating Morbidity Resulting from a Severe Weather Event
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On 12/14/06, a windstorm in western Washington caused 4 million residents to lose power; within 24 hours, a surge in patients presented to emergency departments (EDs) with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. As previously described, records of… read more… our syndromic surveillance system captured 16,982 ED visits. Most of the 169 ED patients with CO-related illness … -
What is the Value of a Positive Syndromic Surveillance Signal?
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One criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of a surveillance system is the system’s positive predictive value. To our knowledge few studies have described the positive predictive value of syndromic surveillance signals… read more… departments (EDs) in King County. EDs send data on all visits that occurred the previous day. Aberrations in the … -
Tuberculosis Surveillance, Republics of Armenia and Georgia, 2003-2004
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The former Soviet Union (FSU)—through the Sanitary-Epidemiologic Service (SES)—developed an extensive system of disease surveillance that was effective, yet centrally planned in Moscow. Even after the fall of the FSU in 1991,… read more… Central TB staff provided direct supervision with regular visits (at least 1-2 times per year) to each of the TB … -
Incorporating seasonality and other long-term trends improves surveillance for acute respiratory infections
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As the electronic medical record (EMR) market matures, long-term time series of EMR-based surveillance data are becoming available. In this work, we hypothesized that statistical aberrancy-detection methods that incorporate seasonality and other… read more… Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA E-mail: sdelisle@umaryland.edu Introduction As the electronic … -
Biosurveillance applications for resource-limited settings: open ESSENCE and ESSENCE desktop edition
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More than a decade ago, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) developed the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more… Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, MD, USA E-mail: jacqueline.coberly@jhuapl.edu Objective This paper … -
Access to and use of syndromic surveillance information at the local health department level
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Syndromic surveillance data have been widely shown to be useful to large health departments. Use at smaller local health departments (LHDs) has rarely been described, and the effectiveness of various methods of delivering syndromic… read more… of Epidemiology, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC, USA E-mail: erika.samoff@unc.edu Objective To characterize use of … -
Description of the quality of public health case reports received at a local health department and potential impact on workflow
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When a reportable condition is identified, clinicians and laboratories are required to report the case to public health authorities. These case reports help public health officials to make informed decisions and implement appropriate… read more… Lake Valley Health Department, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: deepthi.rajeev@hsc.utah.edu Objective This paper …