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Using NC DETECT Summary Reports to Share Syndromic Information
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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) provides early event detection and public health situational awareness to hospital-based and public health users statewide. Authorized users are currently able… read moreUsing NLP on VA Electronic Medical Records to Facilitate Epidemiologic Case Investigations
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A major goal of biosurveillance is the timely detection of an infectious disease outbreak. Once a disease has been identified, another very important goal is to find all known cases of the disease to assist public health… read moreUsing Open-Source Grid-Computing Technology to Improve Processing Time for Geospatial Syndromic Surveillance Data
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Outbreak detection algorithms for syndromic surveillance data are becoming increasingly complex. Initial algorithms focused on temporal data but newer methods incorporate geospatial dimensions. As methods evolve, it is important to understand the… read moreUsing Poison Center Syndromic Surveillance for Environmental Health Signals Detection
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North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the Web-based early event detection and timely public health surveillance system in the North Carolina Public Health Information Network. At… read moreUsing Public School Absentee Data to Enhance Syndromic Surveillance in Miami-Dade County, 2007
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The Miami-Dade County Health Department currently utilizes Emergency Department based Syndromic surveillance data, 911 Call Center data, and more recently Public School Absenteeism data. Daily monitoring of school absenteeism… read moreUsing quad trees to generate grid points for applications in geographic disease surveillance
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In this study, we compare two methods of generating grid points to enable efficient geographic cluster detection when the original geographical data are prohibitively numerous. One method generates uniform grid points, and the other employs quad… read moreUsing School Sentinel Sites for the Early Detection of Influenza
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As public health surveillance is becoming more and more prevalent, new sources of data collection are more evident. One such data source is school absenteeism. By monitoring the symptoms of illness recorded when students are… read moreUsing Syndromic Data to Investigate Gastrointestinal Illness Associated with Water Quality Complaints in Houston
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In February of 2007, the Bureau of Epidemiology (BOE) received a request from Houston Department of Public Works to investigate a possible rise in gastrointestinal (GI) illness associated with complaints about poor water quality in a… read more