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  • An exploratory analysis of the 2010 measles outbreak in Zimbabwe

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    This report describes an exploratory analysis of the 2009-2010 Zimbabwe measles outbreak based on data publicly available in the World Health Organization's Zimbabwe cholera epidemiological bulletin archive. As of December 12th 2010, the outbreak… read more
    … bulletin number 89. http://www.who.int/entity/hac/crises/zwe/sitreps/zwe_ epi_12december2010.pdf, Aug 18, … epidemiological bulletin archive. http://www.who.int/hac/crises/zwe/sitreps/epi_archive/ en/index.html, Aug 18, … - DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v4i0.11064 http://www.who.int/entity/hac/crises/zwe/sitreps/zwe_epi_12december2010.pdf …
  • Automated Surveillance To Detect An Influenza Epidemic: Which Respiratory Syndrome Should We Monitor?

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    OBJECTIVE Syndromic surveillance systems (SSS) seek early detection of infectious diseases outbreaks by focusing on pre-diagnostic symptoms. We do not yet know which respiratory syndrome should be monitored for a SSS to discover… read more
    … week of the study year. To distinguish between true- and back- ground-positive alarms, the daily statistics were per- formed on paired background+injection vs. back- ground-only time series. We computed two bench- marks: …
  • Application of Natural Language Parsers To Syndromic Surveillance

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    This paper describes a methodology for applying natural language parsing (NLP) technologies, originally developed for analyzing biomedical journal articles, to the monitoring of emergency department patient charts for infectious diseases of interest.
    … and concepts. To overcome a limitation of MMTx – namely lack of negation detection – GUARDIANTM also uses NegEx6. … medical journal articles3,4,5,6; however, patient charts lack the same editorial process and thus commonly exhibit …
  • The Use of Rapid Diagnostic Assays to Supplement Syndromic Surveillance: Preliminary Results of a Pilot Project in New York City

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    Syndromic surveillance systems can detect increases in respiratory and gastrointestinal illness, but diagnosis of etiologic agents can be delayed due to difficult, time-consuming identification and low rates of testing for viral pathogens. Rapid… read more
    … difficult. The pace of clinical care within the ED, the lack of dedicated clinical staff, and the perceived lack of benefit of the testing to clinical care resulted in …
  • Recursive Least Squares Prediction of Syndromic Data for Surveillance

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    This paper describes a method to predict syndromic data for surveillance of public health using the method of recursive least squares and a new method of correcting for the day of week effect in order to have a prediction of… read more
    … interested in using the above method for predicting a “back- ground” from a single syndromic data channel. A major … obtained. Adaptively corrected data are used to predict “back- ground” counts. RESULTS The new integrated method is …
  • Standard Operation Procedures for Three Syndromic Surveillance Systems in Washoe County, Nevada - A Local Perspective

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    Washoe County District Health Department (WCDHD) is a local health district serving nearly 400,000 residents in Washoe County including cities of Reno and Sparks, the second largest urban area in Nevada. To enhance overall public health surveillance… read more
    … date, current users, URL if web-based, default and back-up manager, manager’s responsibilities, and overview of … system developers. Step 3-8 also includes default and back-up responsible persons. CONCLUSIONS Although this …
  • A Comprehensive Approach to the Assessment of Surveillance Strategies: the Case of Scrapie in Great Britain

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    Multiple surveillance activities have been conducted in Great Britain (GB) with the objective of estimating the occurrence of scrapie, a fatal neurological infectious disease of small ruminants: statutory reporting of clinical cases, annual surveys… read more
    … the representativeness of our surveillance efforts); iii) back-calculation methods integrating all surveillance … Similarly, frequency estimates from capture-recapture and back-calculation methods informed the parameters of …
  • Predicting Probabilities of Flu Vaccination and Commuting Methods Having Elevated Flu Transmission Probabilities in New York City

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    Aerial transmission and direct contact are important factors for flu. Consequently, close contact with large groups of people, such as during mass transit, present opportunities for transmission. One protective method that… read more
    … The good- ness-of-fit test showed no evidence of a lack of fit (p=0.9351), and the max-rescaled R-square is … The goodness-of-fit test failed to produce evidence of a lack of fit (p= 0.4132), and the max-rescaled R-square is …