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A Controlled Vocabulary for "Reason for Visit" in Ambulatory Encounters
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Objective: To enable improved health surveillance and clinical decision support within ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. -
A County Health Department's Analysis and Dissemination Algorithm of a Neruological Syndrome Aberration to Respective Community Stakeholders
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The purpose of this study is to depict a local county health departmentÃs analysis and dissemination algorithm of surveillance system (SS) aberration (alarm) to designated stakeholders within the community. -
A Flexible Space-Time Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak Detection and Monitoring
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A time periodic geographic disease surveillance system based on a cylindrical space-time scan statistic proposed by Kulldorff [1] has been used extensively for disease surveillance along with the SaTScan software. This statistic is based on a… read more -
A Framework for Evaluating Temporal Alerting Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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This abstract describes a suite of software utilities that have been developed for systematically evaluating the detection performance and robustness of univariate temporal alerting algorithms used in syndromic surveillance systems. -
A Generalization of the AMOC Curve
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The Activity Monitoring Operating Characteristic (AMOC) curve is a useful and popular method for assessing the performance of algorithms that detect outbreaks of disease [1]. As it is typically applied in biosurveillance, the AMOC curve plots the… read more -
A Model and Archetype Based Interoperability Framework for Near Real-Time Surveillance Systems
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The pilot near real time surveillance system ASTER, which currently monitors the French Forces in Djibouti and French Guiana [1], has been especially designed for inter-allied interoperability. This paper briefly describes the rationale of this… read more -
A Model-Based Architecture for Supporting Situational Diagnosis in Real-Time Surveillance Systems
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Real-time syndromic surveillance systems require adapted dataflow organization and tools for supporting data processing in real time, from their acquisition until the counter-measure building process. This work explores the capabilities of a… read more -
A Multijurisdictional Investigation of Resistant Highly Infectious TB in Asian Immigrants
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Learn about a highly infectious resistant tuberculosis outbreak among recent immigrants & the multijurisdictional public health response. Recognize basics about tuberculosis & anticipate difficulties with immigrants and resistant strains.… read more