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School Absenteeism Surveillance Data during the 2009 Influenza A/H1N1 Pandemic
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In April 2009, a novel strain of influenza A was detected in Mexico, which quickly spread to the United States and the rest of the world. In response to the pandemic, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (NH DHHS) developed a… read more… over-the-counter sales of cough and cold medications and visits to emergency depart- ments (Fig. 2). At the peek of … -
Syndromic Surveillance Pilot Project in Dongcheng District of Beijing China
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Syndromic surveillance had been implemented in Dongcheng District with a view to probing into the feasibility of establishing a syndromic surveillance system in major Chinese cities, sieving syndromic surveillance indicators… read more… due to cough(chart4).11 hospitals have report 4,000,643 visits, including fever, … -
Education as a mechanism to reduce spread of brucellosis among at-risk populations in Uzbekistan
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One goal of the Biological Threat Reduction Program of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency is the enhancement of surveillance of especially dangerous pathogens of both humans and animals within countries of the former Soviet Union. One of the… read more… of study subjects will be done from non- brucella-related visits to primary care centers by at-risk patients with no … -
Electronic Tracking of Influenza-like Illness Incidence in an Outpatient Population
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Using an electronic health record (EHR) system, we tracked an outpatient population from a series of primary care providers to identify influenza-like illness (ILI) as part of a multi-state effort directed by the Centers for Disease Control and… read more… obtain practice characteristics (i.e., number of patient visits, type of practice and age distribution) and … -
Pandemic H1N1-Related ICU Rates According to Race/Ethnic Groups in Massachusetts
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Unpublished statewide 2009 H1N1 epidemiological data suggests that rates of lab-confirmed H1N1-related hospitalization were three to four times higher in Black and Hispanic populations compared to White, non-Hispanic populations (Alfred DeMaria,… read more… and significantly lower risk of having H1N1-related ICU visits. Logistic regression models indicate that these … -
Natural Disasters and Use of Syndromic Surveillance: Austin, Texas Metro Area 2011
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Emergency management during a disaster entails innumerable challenges. Each disaster uniquely shapes the types and timing of information needed both to manage the disaster and to measure the impact on available resources, the environment, and… read more… utilizes chief complaint data from emergency department visits in 14 Austin Metro area hospitals; and (2) National … -
Directionally Sensitive Multivariate Statistical Process Control Procedures with Application to Syndromic Surveillance
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Current syndromic surveillance systems run multiple simultaneous univariate procedures, each focused on detecting an outbreak in a single data stream. Multivariate procedures have the potential to better detect some types of outbreaks, but most of… read more… with the CDC's aggregate data on “percentage of visits for influenza-line illness reported by sentinel … to moderate in the United States.” The percentage of visits in the South Atlantic region peaked in February–March … was characterized as “mild,” with the percentage of visits in the South Atlantic region peaking in … -
Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP): Automated Detection and Reporting of Statutory Notifiable Diseases to Public Health Authorities
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Clinician initiated reporting of notifiable conditions is often delayed, incomplete, and lacking in detail. We report on the deployment of Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP), a system we have created to automatically screen… read more… the denominator of their choice (e.g., total ambu- latory visits, total number of patients tested for the condition, …