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Collaboration for Improved Disease Surveillance Literature Review
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The ISDS Research Committee (RC) is an interdisciplinary group of researchers interested in various topics related to disease surveillance. The RC hosts a literature review process with a permanent repository of relevant journal articles and… read more -
A Novel Hotel-based Syndromic Surveillance System for the Caribbean Region
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To describe the Caribbean Public Health Agency’s (CARPHA) Tourism and Health Information System (THiS), a web-based syndromic surveillance system to increase the capacity of Caribbean countries to monitor the health of visitors and staff in hotels,… read more -
Collaborative Automation Reliably Remediating Erroneous Conclusion Threats (CARRECT)
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Analyses produced by epidemiologists and public health practitioners are susceptible to bias from a number of sources including missing data, confounding variables, and statistical model selection. It often requires a great deal of expertise to… read more -
Comparing Prescription Sales, Google Trends and CDC Data as Flu Activity Indicators
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In a 2007 survey of public health officials in the United States, International Society for Disease Surveillance found that only 7% used pharmacy prescription sales data for surveillance (1). There have been many reports suggesting effective use of… read more -
Denver County Clostridium difficile Trends and Associated Risk Factors 2011-2013
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Clostridium difficile (CD), a gram-negative, anaerobic, sporeforming bacterium causes symptoms ranging from mild to severe diarrhea and may result in death. Approximately 75% of CDI cases have symptom onset outside of health care settings.… read more -
Classification and Capture of Work-Related Non-Fatal Injuries Through a Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance System
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Syndromic surveillance has been used by state agencies to collect real-time information on disease outbreaks but has not been used to collect data in the occupational setting. Therefore, OHS staff has begun evaluating a real-time surveillance tool… read more -
Developing the Scalable Data Integration for Disease Surveillance (SDIDS) Platform
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Electronic data that could be used for global health surveillance are fragmented across diseases, organizations, and countries. This fragmentation frustrates efforts to analyze data and limits the amount of information available to guide disease… read more -
Development of Food Hygiene Surveillance System in Plantation Sector, Sri Lanka
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Wholesome food in adequate quantities is essential to human beings for their existence. However, diseases spread due to contaminated food are a common problem throughout the world and an important cause of reduced economic productivity. Food borne… read more