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Identifying Clusters of Rare and Novel Words in Emergency Department Chief Complaints
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A goal of biosurveillance is to identify incidents that require a public health response. The challenge is creating specific definitions of such incidents so they can be detected. In syndromic surveillance, this is accomplished by classifying… read more -
Identifying Pregnancy Status through STD/HIV Electronic Laboratory Reporting
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Although U.S. Mother to Child transmission (MCT) rates of HIV have been reduced from approximately 25% to less than 2%, transmissions continue to occur.1 This reduction comes in a large part from treating pregnant mothers with antiretroviral… read more -
Impact of Staff Qualification and Training on Performance of the Core Function Activities (CFA) of the Communicable Disease Surveillance System, Gazera State, Sudan, 2009
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This study assessed the performance of the core function activities (CFA) of the Communicable Disease Surveillance system and response (CDSs) existing in Gazera State. The first assessment of disease surveillance being conducted in the area during… read more -
Implementation of a Syndromic Surveillance Pilot Program in Selected Cattle Markets in Texas, USA
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Syndromic surveillance of livestock animals at points of concentration, such as livestock markets, has the potential to provide early detection of endemic, zoonotic, transboundary, environmental, and newly emerging animal diseases and to identify… read more -
Improvement in Loss to Follow-up of Newborn Hearing Screening: A lesson from Louisiana Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program
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Newborns who fail initial hearing screening are encouraged to follow up to get further tests to confirm diagnosis of hearing loss. Loss to follow-up of hearing screening is defined as a newborn who fails the initial hearing test before hospital… read more -
Improving Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening Biosurveillance Systems for Enhanced Situational Awareness
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In emergencies, public health agencies must be able to respond to health threats that can affect entire communities. Agency leaders need to achieve situational awareness through the development of flexible, timely, and accurate electronic… read more -
Increased Uptake of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Services among Older Men Following Mobile Technology Demand Creation in Shinyanga and Simiyu, Tanzania
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In 2007, the United Nations recommended provision of VMMC in settings with high HIV prevalence and low rates of male circumcision (MC). This recommendation was based on randomized studies in Africa, which demonstrated that MMC reduces HIV… read more -
Increasing Outbreak Detection Power by Data Transformations
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Syndromic surveillance involves the analysis of time series of health indicators to identify changes in disease patterns. To this end, statistical modeling is used to reduce systematic data variation. Still, there is variation that cannot be… read more