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Predictors of vaccination uptake for the 2009 influenza pandemic (H1N1) in Montreal
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Work on vaccination timing and promotion largely precedes the 2009 pandemic. Post-pandemic studies examining the wide range of local vaccination efforts mostly have been limited to surveys assessing the role of administrative strategies, logistical… read more… reflecting ineffectual communication or a more troubling lack of trust in health authorities (2). Launching the … -
Norovirus disease surveillance using Google search data
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While norovirus is the leading cause of gastroenteritis in the United States, leading to an estimated 21 million illnesses per year [1], timely surveillance data are limited. Google Insights for Search (GIfS) is a new application that allows users… read more… surveillance data are limited, absent or simply lack timeliness, but internet access is widespread. As two … -
A review of automated text classification in 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, plant, and animal health. Online documents, such as news articles, newsletters, and (micro-) blog entries, are… read more… advantages of each method remain unclear because of the lack of benchmark data. A community effort is necessary to … -
Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to the 2011 E. coli Outbreak in Germany
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Argus is an event-based, multi-lingual surveillance system which captures and analyzes information from publicly available Internet media. Argus produces reports that summarize and contextualize indications and warning (I&W) of emerging… read more… neighboring states. These problems were compounded by the lack of an effective HUS treatment, causing health officials … -
Invited Commentary: Automated Public Health Reporting-- A Familiar but Cantankerous Friend
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The Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP) project by Klompas et al. (1) promises improved public health reporting by exploiting information captured in electronic health records. This project pulls together a number of… read more… inflammatory disease reporting may be low not due to a lack of technology, but because of sensitivity by the … -
Rapid ad-hoc cross-jurisdictional sharing of syndrome data using Distribute technology
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Cross-jurisdictional sharing of public health syndrome data is useful for many reasons, among them to provide a larger regional or national view of activity and to determine if unusual activity observed in one jurisdiction is atypical. Considerable… read more… project does not impose strict syndrome definitions. This lack of standardization intro- duces variability between … -
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… E, Picard R, Umland E: Modeling emergency department visit patterns for infectious dis- ease complaints: results … -
Syndromic Surveillance Practice in the United States: Findings from a Survey of State, Territorial, and Selected Local Health Departments
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In 2007-2008, the authors surveyed public health officials in 59 state, territorial, and selected large local jurisdictions in the United States regarding their conduct and use of syndromic surveillance. Fifty-two (88%) responded, representing areas… read more… were not conducting syndromic surveillance, 3 cited a lack of capac- ity or funding as the reason, 2 stated that … 2008;6:3 next 2 years, and very few anticipated scaling back their use of syndromic surveillance. One dimension of …