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An Experimental Study Using Opt-in Internet Panel Surveys for Behavioral Health Surveillance
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Today, surveyors in both the private and public sectors are facing considerable challenges with random digit dialed (RDD) landline telephone samples. The population coverage rates for landline telephone surveys are being eroded by wireless-only… read more -
An Improved Algorithm for Outbreak Detection in Multiple Surveillance Systems
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There has been much interest in the use of statistical surveillance systems over the last decade, prompted by concerns over bio-terrorism, the emergence of new pathogens such as SARS and swine flu, and the persistent public health problems of… read more -
An Integrated Syndromic Surveillance System for Monitoring Scarlet Fever in Taiwan
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Scarlet fever is a bacterial infection caused by group A streptococcus (GAS). The clinical symptoms are usually mild. Before October, 2007, case-based surveillance of scarlet fever was conducted through notifiable infectious diseases in Taiwan, but… read more -
An ISDS-Based Initiative for Conventions for Biosurveillance Data Analysis Methods
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Twelve years into the 21st century, after publication of hundreds of articles and establishment of numerous biosurveillance systems worldwide, there is no agreement among the disease surveillance community on most effective technical methods for… read more -
Analysis of Heat Illness using Michigan Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance
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The MSSS, described elsewhere (1), has been in use since 2003 and records Emergency Department (ED) chief complaint data along with the patient’s age, gender and zip code in real time. There were 85/139 hospital EDs enrolled in MSSS as of June 2012… read more -
Applying Zero-inflated Mixed Model to School Absenteeism Surveillance in Rural China
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Absenteeism has great advantages in promoting the early detection of epidemics1. Since August 2011, an integrated syndromic surveillance project (ISSC) has been implemented in China2. Distribution of the absenteeism generally are asymmetry, zero… read more -
Automated Surveillance of Outpatients with Pneumonia: A Performance Evaluation
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Effective responses to epidemics of infectious diseases hinge not only on early outbreak detection, but also on an assessment of disease severity. In recent work, we combined previously developed ARI case-detection algorithms (CDA) [1] with text… read more -
Bayesian Contact Tracing for Communicable Respiratory Disease
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The evolution of novel influenza viruses in humans is a bio- logical phenomenon that can not be stopped. All existing data suggest that vaccination against the morbidity and mortality of the novel influenza viruses is our best line of defence.… read more