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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… and Montgomery (4) for a more detailed discussion. The lack of directional sensitivity can be a limitation of these … (i.i.d.) observations from a stationary distribution. Lack of independence, if not accounted for, results 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… ant prescriptions. Response messages are transmitted back to the health department in HL7 format following the …