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  • A comparison of the fever–flu syndrome category with the SC ILINet surveillance system in South Carolina: 2009–2010 influenza season

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    The South Carolina Aberration Alerting Network (SCAAN) is a collaborative network of syndromic systems within South Carolina. Currently, SCAAN contains the following data sources: SC Hospital Emergency Department chief-… read more
    … was calculated by dividing the total number of ED visits with a fever–flu chief- complaint seen in all hospitals by the total number of ED visits seen by all hospitals. The weekly state ILI … useful to understand the population of SC residents who visit the hospital ED versus a private provider clinic for …
  • Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents

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    Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… read more
    … when there was a more defined purpose to reporting ED visits and admissions (e.g., The Republican National … as point source outbreaks. Querying preestablished ED visit, coroner death, and 911 call feeds can provide a …
  • Use of Epidemiological Knowledge to Create Syndromic Surveillance Reports

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    Syndromic surveillance is an investigational approach used to monitor trends of illness in communities. It relies on pre-diagnostic health data rather than laboratory-confirmed clinical diagnoses. Its primary purpose is to detect… read more
    … race/ethnicity, resident zip code, hospital, time of visit and chief complaint whereas bioterrorism-associated … file include patient age, sex, chief complaint, time of visit, race/ethnicity, discharge disposition (e.g. admitted, …
  • Check! Explore barriers and solutions to data sharing to BioSense 2.0

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    The benefits of inter-jurisdictional data sharing have been touted as a hallmark of BioSense 2.0, a cloud-based computing platform for syndromic surveillance. A key feature of the BioSense 2.0 platform is the ability to share data across… read more
    … and volume of data from emergency department (ED) visits from electronic health record (EHR) technology are … increasingly accessible to PHAs. For every PHA, 100% ED visit coverage is an achievable goal and the tools for … participating in and providing emergency department visit data to the nationwide BioSense 2.0 syndromic …
  • Beyond Detection: Attack Characterization with Syndromic and Clinical Data

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    Most research in syndromic surveillance has emphasized early detection, but clinical diagnosis of the index case will tend to occur before detection by syndromic surveillance for certain types of outbreaks [1]. Syndromic surveillance may, however,… read more
    … we conducted a simulation study using ambulatory visit records for respiratory conditions. We used a model … [1] to simulate the daily increase in syndromic clinic visits and the time to first diagnosis through blood culture … each outbreak, we injected the simulated syndromic clinic visits into baseline data and estimated the dis- ease burden …
  • Using cross-correlation networks to identify and visualize patterns in disease transmission

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    Syndromic surveillance data such as the incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) is broadly monitored to provide awareness of respiratory disease epidemiology. Diverse algorithms have been employed to find geospatial trends in … read more
    … rates. Methods For this pilot study, we analyzed patient visits to health care providers for ILI, collected through … data consist of the weighted percentage of all patient visits to healthcare providers for ILI reported each week. … weak transmission (region nine) of ILI cases in hospital visit data. Other observations from the network are …
  • Using cross-correlation networks to identify and visualize patterns in disease transmission

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance data such as the incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) is broadly monitored to provide awareness of respiratory disease epidemiology. Diverse algorithms have been employed to find geospatial trends in surveillance data,… read more
    … rates. Methods For this pilot study, we analyzed patient visits to health care providers for ILI, collected through … data consist of the weighted percentage of all patient visits to healthcare providers for ILI reported each week. … weak transmission (region nine) of ILI cases in hospital visit data. Other observations from the network are …
  • Effect of Work-related Mobility in the Simulation of Aerosol Anthrax Releases with BARD

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    An important problem in biosurveillance is the early detection and characterization of outdoor aerosol releases of B. anthracis. The Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector (BARD) is a system for simulating, detecting and characterizing such releases… read more
    … Then we computed the number of cases and the time of ED visit for each case based on the exposure level of a … each release, we measured the change in the number of ED visits per block group produced by the two versions of the …