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Where do you Find Interesting Biosurveillance Publications?
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To identify the disciplines and journal titles of surveillance-related publications from a wide range of indexed repositories and to draw attention to the publication repository created by the ISDS Research Committee. Introduction… read more -
Wikipedia Usage Estimates Prevalence of Influenza-like Illness in Near Real-Time
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The purpose of this work was to develop a novel method of estimating the amount of influenza-like illness (ILI) in a population, in near-real time, by using a source of information that is completely open to the public and free to access. We… read more -
Statistical Monitoring of Condemnations from Slaughterhouses
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Meat inspection data are routinely collected over several years providing the possibility to use historical data for constructing a baseline model defining the expected normal behaviour of the indicator monitored. In countries in which the reporting… read more -
Supplementing Obesity-Related Surveillance with Persistent Health Assessment Tools
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In response to the rise in obesity rates and obesity-related healthcare costs over the past several decades, numerous organizations have implemented obesity prevention programs. The current method for evaluating the success of these programs relies… read more -
Surveillance for Opioid Overdose in the Veterans Health Administration, 2004-2014
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Drug poisoning, or overdose, is an epidemic problem in the United States1,2. In keeping with national trends, a recent study combining U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) data with the National Death Index showed increases in opioid overdose… read more -
Surveillance of Cardio Vascular Risk Factors Among Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
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According to world health organization report 2011, coronary artery diseases are the number one cause of death globally: more people die annually from coronary artery diseases than from any other cause. An estimated 17.3 million people died from… read more -
Surveillance of Surveillance: Inventorying Gaps and Commonalities Across the Universe of Surveillance Systems
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Health surveillance systems provide important functionalities to detect, monitor, respond, prevent, and report on a variety of conditions across multiple owners. They offer important capabilities, with some of the most fundamental including data… read more -
Surveillance on Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in East Asia
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Regional disease surveillance as well as data transparency and sharing are the global trend for mitigating the threat of infectious diseases. The WHO has already played a leading role in FluNet (http:// www.who.int/influenza/gisrs_laboratory/flunet/… read more