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Tracking Trends in Marginalization and Deprivation Across Ontario with SDOH Mapper
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Geographic Information System (GIS) technology provides visual tools, through the creation of computerized maps, graphs, and tables of geographic data, which can assist with problem solving and inform decision-making. One of the GIS tools being… read more -
Triage Notes in Syndromic Surveillance – A Double Edged Sword
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The advent of Meaningful Use (MU) has allowed for the expansion of data collected at the hospital level and received by public health for syndromic surveillance. The triage note, a free text expansion on the chief complaint, is one of the many… read more -
Update on the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program
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The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 mandated establishing an integrated national public health surveillance system for early detection and rapid assessment of potential bioterrorism-related illness. In… read more -
Use of Electronic Health Records to Determine the Impact of Ebola Screening
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Since the largest epidemic of Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) in recorded history began in Guinea in December 2013, the epidemic has spread to neighboring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone resulting in an estimation of over 27,000 total cases… read more -
Use of Peripheral Health Units in Low-Transmission Ebola Virus Disease Surveillance
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Existing EVD surveillance strategies in Sierra Leone use a centralized live alert system to refer suspect cases from the community to Ebola treatment centers. As EVD case burden declined in Port Loko District, so did the number of reported alerts.… read more -
Using Bayesian Networks to Assist Decision-Making in Syndromic Surveillance
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Syndromic surveillance systems often produce large numbers of detections due to excess activity (alarms) in their indicators. Few alarms are classified as alerts (public health events that may require a response). Decision-making in syndromic… read more -
Using Health Helpline Mediated Self-Swabbing as a Surveillance Tool for Influenza
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Currently, three main sources of data are used to monitor the prevalence of influenza in Ontario: Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) FluWatch, Ontario’s Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance (ACES) data and Public Health Ontario’s (PHO) traditional… read more -
Using Health-Seeking Pattern to Estimate Disease Burden from Sentinel Surveillance
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The general health-seeking behavior has been well described in different populations. However, how different symptoms have driven health-seeking behavior was less explored. From the patient’s perspective, health-seeking behavior tends to be… read more