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  • 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 … communicable disease reporting mechanisms (e.g., via phone or fax). A signal was classified as a true positive if …
  • Challenges of introducing disease surveillance technology in developing countries: experiences from India and Sri Lanka

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    Modern information and communication technologies have increasingly prominent roles in health care systems. To capitalize on attainable benefits, it is essential to thoroughly and purposefully weave them into the existing business … read more
    … and alerting.1 Data collection relies on amobile phone applicationmHealthsurvey to transfer paper records of outpatient visits to a central database. Data are then analyzed using …
  • Disease surveillance using school absenteeism data in rural Cambodia

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    Previous studies in developed countries showed school absenteeism data can serve as a proxy for monitoring infectious disease activities and facilitates early community outbreak detection. However, absenteeism patterns may differ in developing… read more
    … by short message service (SMS) or direct communication by phone to the central office of The Cambodian Children’s … Data quality was monitored by occasional onsite school visits by the investigators. A total of 430 students (47.4% …
  • Exploring illness prediction in type 1 diabetes mellitus pre-symptom onset

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    Illnesses like infections, cold, influenza and so on in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) patients, can compromise the daily patient administered diabetes treatment. This in turn may result in fluctuating blood glucose concentrations,… read more
    … with presence of symptoms’. To obtain this data, a Smart- phone application was developed, intended for monitoring … 3 Årsand E, Tatara N, Østengen G, Hartvigsen G. Mobile-phone- basen self-management tools for type 2 diabetesFthe …
  • 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
    … as part of a follow-up to a TB outbreak investigation. A phone number of a MCPHD nurse on call is provided. The … that normal methods of locating these individual such as phone or address was not available. Additionally, other …
  • Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?

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     Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more
    … of an outbreak (23). Near the end of a patient’s visit to a healthcare facility, detailed information about … approxi- mately 40,000 adult patients a year, and patient visit data have been stored in the Medical Archival System …
  • Use of Cell-Phones to Strengthen Malaria Surveillance-Response Systems of Bangka/Belitung, Indonesia - A proposal

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    The Government of Indonesia (GoI) aims to eliminate Malaria by 2030 in 4 stages (Wismarini, 2009. To reach the elimination phase High Case Incidence (HCI) areas go through a pre-elimination phase. The aim of the proposed project is to support one of… read more
    … the Bangka Belitung Province, Sumatera, by means of cell phone (CP) applications through the following activities: 1) … Malaria; elimination; surveillance-response; cell-phone applica- tion; Indonesia References 1. Olumese P. …
  • Implementation and Comparison of Preprocessing Methods for Biosurveillance Data

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    Modern biosurveillance relies on multiple sources of both prediagnostic and diagnostic data, updated daily, to discover disease outbreaks. Intrinsic to this effort are two assumptions: (1) the data being analyzed contain early indicators… read more
    … data. Examples are daily counts of emergency room visits, over-the-counter (OTC) or prescription medication sales, school absences, doctors’ office visits, veterinary reports, or other data streams that could … E, Picard R, Umland E: Modeling emergency department visit patterns for infectious dis- ease complaints: results …