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Cross-Disciplinary Consultancy to Enhance Predictions of Asthma Exacerbation Risk in Boston
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This paper continues an initiative conducted by the International Society for Disease Surveillance with funding from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to connect near-term analytical needs of public health practice with technical expertise from… read more -
Data Quality: A Systematic Review of the Biosurveillance Literature
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Data quality monitoring is necessary for accurate disease surveillance. However it can be challenging, especially when “real-time” data are required. Data quality has been broadly defined as the degree to which data are suitable for use by data… read more -
#wheezing: A Content Analysis of Asthma-Related Tweets
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Recently, a growing number of studies have made use of Twitter to track the spread of infectious disease. These investigations show that there are reliable spikes in traffic related to keywords associated with the spread of infectious diseases like… read more -
A Bayesian Approach to Characterize Hong Kong Influenza Surveillance Systems
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Syndromic surveillance has been widely used in influenza surveillance worldwide. However, despite the potential benefits created by the large volume of data, biases due to the changes in healthcare seeking behavior and physicians’ reporting behavior… read more -
A Binational Influenza Surveillance Network – California/Baja California
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In response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the Early Warning Infectious Disease Surveillance Program Office of Binational Border Health in the California Department of Public Health sought to strengthen outpatient ILI surveillance along the CA/BC… read more -
A Binational Model of Collaboration for Enhancing Cross-border ID Surveillance
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International borders present unique challenges for the surveillance of infectious disease. Border communities represent locations with vast differences in cultures and languages, governing institutions, healthcare access, and priorities for the… 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