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  • Operation of the evacuation site surveillance for the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011

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    In 2011, March 11th, the big earthquake attacked eastern Japan, and forced a lot of people to live in evacuation sites. Since those evaluation sites have high density of population and sanitary condition was poor in these sites, outbreaks of… read more
    … tool even if electronic power, internet and (mobile) phone network are shut down. This is the next challenge. …
  • Real-time Adaptive Monitoring of Vital Signs for Clinical Alarm Preemption

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    Cardiovascular event prediction has long been of interest in the practice of intensive care. It has been approached using signal-processing of vital signs [1-4], including the use of graphical models [3,4]. Our approach is novel in making data… read more
    … V. A self-test to detect a heart attack using a mobile phone and wearable sensors. In 21st IEEE Int’l Sympo- sium …
  • An Evaluation of Electronic Laboratory Data Quality and a Health Information Exchange

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    Electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) was demonstrated just over a decade ago to be an effective method to improve the timeliness of reporting as well as the number of reports submitted to public health agencies. The quality of data (inc.… read more
    … Patient’s address 41.5% 63.3% �21.8% Patient’s home phone number 38.5% 72.8% �34.3% Ethnicity 3.5% 18.3% �14.8% …
  • Hepatitis A Surveillance Evaluation in Mafraq Health Directorate, Jordan 2010

    Content Type: Abstract

    Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is usually mild in childhood but more severe in adolescents and adults'. An estimated 1.4 million cases of HAV infection occur annually in the world. The case-fatality rate among patients of all ages is… read more
    … reporting protocol is not well implemented, it is mostly phone based, and this will weaken the sensitivity of …
  • Canadian and United States Cross-Border Collaboration for Syndromic Surveillance: Overview and Recommendations from an International Society for Disease Surveillance

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    The objectives of this consultation, supported by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS), were to develop expert, consensus-based recommendations to promote Canadian and U.S. collaboration in using syndromic surveillance (SS) to… read more
    … system based on collection of aggregate data for ED visits from existing SS systems. This project has the … SS alerts, it would be appropriate to “pick up the phone and call” or e-mail a colleague across the border. In …
  • Detection of Walkerton Gastroenteritis Outbreak Using Syndromic Surveillance of Emergency Room Records

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    In May 2000 accidental contamination of the water supply led to an outbreak of severe gastroenteritis in Walkerton Ontario, Canada. Of 1346 cases associated with exposure to Walkerton water, 65 were admitted to hospital, 27 developed Hemolytic-… read more
    … using their own specialized algorithms. RESULTS ER visits associated with the outbreak were highly concentrated … is it s pe r da y Walkerton Site Only Exclude “Other” All Visits Exclude “Other”GI only All Visits 450 470 490 510 530 …
  • Geographic Categorization Methods Used in BioSense

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    BioSense is a CDC initiative to promote situational awareness through summarizing, analyzing, and presenting health related event information. Among the data sources collected and analyzed through the BioSense application are the Department of… read more
    … facility based on the alternate stan- dard deviation. Visits with a mileage less than or equal to the maximum distance cutoff were catego- rized as local visits, whereas visits with a mileage greater than the …
  • Identification and tracking of heat-related illnesses using syndromic surveillance

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    The summer of 2010 in Maryland was characterized by unusually high temperatures. This type of increased and prolonged heat can potentially make residents sick, and extreme exposure can even kill people at highest risk. Numerous… read more
    … Maryland (n!45) report data on emergency department (ED) visits to ESSENCE in near real-time manner. Therefore, ED visits for heat-related illnesses were reviewed closely on a … awareness and inform decision making. The counts of ED visits for heat-related illnesses were also compared with …