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Cross Border Syndromic Surveillance- Overview and Recommendations from an ISDS Consultation Held in Kingston, Ontario Canada, June 11-12th, 2007
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The objectives of the two day International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) funded consultation were to develop expert, consensus-based recommendations that address specific, unanswered questions that hinder advances in cross border… read more… • Identify how syndromic surveillance alerts may be shared across borders and how to address the barriers … -
Data-Adaptive Multivariate Control Charts for Routine Health Monitoring
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This paper investigates the use of data-adaptive multivariate statistical process control (MSPC) charts for outbreak detection using real-world syndromic data. The widely used EARS [1] methods and other adaptive implementations assume implicitly… read more… This paper investigates the use of data-adaptive mul- tivariate statistical process control (MSPC) charts for … -
Disease Surveillance among Katrina Evacuees in Shelters - Use of a Web-Based Surveillance System during an Emergency Response
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On Monday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. Outside of the affected areas of TX, LA, MS, and AL, GA received the largest number of these evacuees, approximately 125,000. By August 30, 2005, GA began receiving a total of… read more… conditions re- sulted in medical care provided inside (70 refer- rals/1,000 resident-days) and outside (9 refer- … Accessed: May 22, 2006. [2] KM McNeill, et al. Surveillance for … -
Document classification toward efficient event-based biosurveillance
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Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human health. Online documents, such as news articles on the Internet, have commonly been the … read more… that is, few labeled irrelevant (or relevant) articles may be available because of labeling bias (or to the … N, Doan S, Kawazoe A, Goodwin RM, Conway M, Tateno Y, et al. BioCaster: detecting public health rumors with a … -
Timeliness of Over-the-Counter Drug Sales as an Early Indicator of Community Disease Outbreaks in Hong Kong
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Overseas studies showed that increases in over-the-counter (OTC) drug sales might serve as an indicator of community disease outbreaks before they are detected by conventional surveillance systems. Using data collected… read more… factors such as advertising, pricing and sales promotion may affect the overall sales of common cold medications. … -
Learning Specific Detectors of Adverse Events in Multivariate Time Series
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This paper describes how powerful detectors of adverse events manifested in multivariate series of bio-surveillance data can be learned using only a few labeled instances of such events.… by being able to raise an alert even if none of the com- ponent signals is critical, but if some of them are … powerful specific detectors of adverse events in mul- tivariate time series data, even if the number of … -
Multi-Method Comparison of Detecting Common Events of Public Health Interest: a Multi-Site, Multi-Stream Simulation Study
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Existing statistical methods can perform well in detecting simulated bioterrorism events. However, these methods have not been well-evaluated for detection of the type of respiratory and gastrointestinal events of greatest… read more… Demonstration Program [4] from June 2005 through May 2006. The program covers approximately 10% of the … -
Multi-Tier Role Based Access for Secure and Flexible Syndromic Surveillance
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NC DETECT receives data on at least a daily basis from five data sources: emergency departments (ED), the statewide poison center (CPC), the statewide EMS data collection system, a regional wildlife center and laboratories from the NC State College… read more… well as what are the state legislated restrictions that may affect data access. The challenge is to control data …