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  • Primary Care Surveillance in the UK - Actions, Outcomes, Benefits

    Content Type: Abstract

    Routine primary care data provide the means to systematically monitor a variety of syndromes which could give early warning of health protection issues (microbiological and chemical). It is possible to track milder illnesses which may not present to… read more
    … illness) and environmental sampling results (indicating a lack of ground-level pollution). CONCLUSIONS: Primary care …
  • Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more
    … benefits of public health actions that reasonably follow from surveillance, guidance can be found in the … gate or de-identified form that have capability to link back to identified data when necessary; (c) further develop … of public health activities, ranging from individual case follow-up to program evaluation and policy develop- ment. …
  • Challenges in adapting an natural language processing system for real-time surveillance

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    We are developing a Bayesian surveillance system for realtime surveillance and characterization of outbreaks that incorporates a variety of data elements, including free-text clinical reports. An existing natural language processing (… read more
    … caused less by NLP technicalities than they are by the lack of a robust environment for NLP engineering, …
  • Estimating the incidence of influenza cases that present to emergency departments

    Content Type: Abstract

    Our laboratory previously established the value of over-the-counter (OTC) sales data for the early detection of disease outbreaks. We found that thermometer sales (TS) increased significantly and early during influenza (flu) season.… read more
    … ! TS"region#S"B=A# $ "I=A#"pop"region#=pop"AC## Given the lack of data with which to validate our model in other …
  • Patient Management System Programmed Alert to Notify Providers of Suspected TB Cases

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    An increase in tuberculosis (TB) among homeless men residing in Marion County, Indiana was noticed in the summer of 2008. The Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD) hosted screening events at homeless shelters in hopes of finding… read more
    … that this person should have a chest x-ray as part of a follow-up to a TB outbreak investigation. A phone number of … the effectiveness of the alert is difficult due to a lack of encounter data. Only one-fourth of the patients (13 …
  • The Evolution of ESSENCE

    Content Type: Abstract

    In development for over fourteen years, ESSENCE is a disease surveillance system utilized by public health stakeholders at city, county, state, regional, national, and global levels. The system was developed by a team from the Johns Hopkins… read more
    … The utility of the ESSENCE system can be traced back directly to the influence of public health users and to …
  • Predictors of vaccination uptake for the 2009 influenza pandemic (H1N1) in Montreal

    Content Type: Abstract

    Work on vaccination timing and promotion largely precedes the 2009 pandemic. Post-pandemic studies examining the wide range of local vaccination efforts mostly have been limited to surveys assessing the role of administrative strategies, logistical… read more
    … reflecting ineffectual communication or a more troubling lack of trust in health authorities (2). Launching the …
  • Norovirus disease surveillance using Google search data

    Content Type: Abstract

    While norovirus is the leading cause of gastroenteritis in the United States, leading to an estimated 21 million illnesses per year [1], timely surveillance data are limited. Google Insights for Search (GIfS) is a new application that allows users… read more
    … surveillance data are limited, absent or simply lack timeliness, but internet access is widespread. As two …