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The utility of inpatient data obtained from regional health information organizations for pneumonia and influenza surveillance
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Hospital discharge data received by public health agencies has a reporting lag time of greater than six months. This data is often used retrospectively to conduct surveillance to assess severity of illness and outcome, and for… read more -
Tracking emergency department (ED) patients with gastrointestinal symptoms during a Norovirus epidemic in Miami-Dade
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From January to March 2010, thirteen outbreaks of Norovirus infection were reported to the Epidemiology, Disease Control and Immunization Service (EDC-IS), up from four outbreaks in the entire 2008 and same number during 2009. … read more -
Tracking H1N1 vaccine doses administered using CRA system
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The novel strain of H1N1 Influenza A virus, which first caused localized outbreaks in parts of Mexico, was declared a pandemic in June 2009. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Countermeasure and Response… read more -
Use of a public health working group to coordinate multi-jurisdiction response to bioterrorism surveillance signals and influenza outbreaks
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The use of syndromic surveillance systems to detect illness and outbreaks in the mid 1990s in New York City resulted in recommendations for increased use of these systems for detection of bioterrorist agents, and tracking influenza… read more -
Use of emergency department data for case finding following a community anthrax exposure
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On 24 December 2009, a female New Hampshire resident was confirmed to have gastrointestinal anthrax on the basis of clinical findings and laboratory testing. Her source of anthrax was not immediately known, so the New Hampshire… read more -
User requirements for a user-centered design (UCD) redesign of a public health surveillance system: BioSense
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the BioSense program in 2003 to establish an integrated system of nationwide public health surveillance for the early detection and assessment of potential bioterrorism-related… read more -
Using a prediction market to forecast dengue fever activity
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Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease, and there is considerable evidence that case numbers are rising and geographical distribution of the disease is widening within the United States, and around the world. The accuracy and… read more -
Using clinician mental models to guide annotation of medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes found in VA clinical documents
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Medically unexplained syndromes (MUS) are conditions that are diagnosed on the basis of symptom constellations and are characterized by a lack of well-defined pathogenic pathways. The three most common MUS are chronic fatigue … read more