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  • Use of Laboratory Drug Sensitivity Tests and Prescription Practices in Malawi

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    Of the 13 million people in Malawi1 85% are rural and the country has high burden of under-five morbidity and mortality due to preventable infectious diseases. Respiratory, febrile and diarrhea diseases are the top 3 morbidity and mortality… read more
    … which should inform prescription practices. There is lack of demand and reliance on drug sensitivity tests by the prescribing clinician. Clinicians sited the lack of laboratory capacity and also the delays that go with …
  • Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to Disease Emergence in Isolated Regions

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    Argus is an event-based surveillance system which captures information from publicly available Internet media in multiple languages. The information is contextualized and indications and warning (I&W) of disease are identified. Reports are… read more
    … to medical staff and one relative, as well as a severe lack of biosafety personal protective and laboratory … effectiveness of disease management in the region: (1) a lack of government leadership and account- ability, (2) poor …
  • Using Biosurveillance Whole-System Facsimiles To Compare Aberrancy-Detection Methods: Should BioSense Use SatScan?

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    OBJECTIVE A “whole-system facsimile” recreates a complex automated biosurveillance system running prospectively on real historical datasets. We systematized this approach to compare the performance of otherwise… read more
    … alarms, the daily sta- tistics were performed on paired back- ground+injection vs. background-only time series. For …
  • 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
    … surveillance data sources used at the NDDoH. Due to lack of a functioning national animal identification …
  • Project Management and Design for Syndromic Surveillance Software

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    Management of software development projects involves a collection of well understood issues which are not often found in other project management areas. Identifying and managing these issues primarily requires that the manager is aware of the… read more
    … feedback should be used to refine the software. Feed- back can be achieved through different methods in- cluding …
  • STL and Local Regression for Modeling Disease Surveillance Counts

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    Numerous methods have been applied to the problem of modeling temporal properties of disease surveillance data; the ESSENCE system contains a widely used approach (1). STL (2) is a flexible, wellproven method for temporal… read more
    … a peak on Mon., a drop through about Fri. then a rise back to a Sun. peak about as big as Mon. No sig- nificant …
  • Delineating Spatial Clusters with Artificial Neural Networks

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    Multiple or irregularly shaped spatial clusters are often found in disease or syndromic surveillance maps. We develop a novel method to delineate the contours of spatial clusters, especially when there is not a clearly dominating primary cluster,… read more
    … trained by the Levenberg-Marquardt backpropagation [2,3]. Follow- ing the training phase, the scan function evaluation … and R. J. Williams,1986. Lear- ning representations by back-propagating errors. Nature, 323:533- 536. [4] Teixeira, …
  • Multiple Data Sources and Reverse Engineering Could Improve Sensitivity of Surveillance Algorithms

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    Clinicians can pursue the clinical findings for specific patients until reaching a diagnosis in real time.  When using electronic ED complaints, one relies on symptoms volunteered by patients in the triage setting.  Patients seek emergency… read more
    … and CSF orders by 3-fold. Six complaints (vomiting, back or neck pain, dizziness, rash, weakness) increased MEE …