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Emergency Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) for Public Health in Canada
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In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more -
Empirical/Asymptotic P-Values for Monte Carlo-Based Hypothesis Testing: An Application to Cluster Detection Using the Scan Statistic
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SaTScan is a freely available software that uses the scan statistic to detect clusters in space, time or space-time. SaTScan uses Monte Carlo hypothesis testing in order to produce a p-value for the null hypothesis that no… read more -
Employment and Commuting Data for the Simulation of Pandemics
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Evidence suggests that transmission within the workplace contributes significantly to the magnitude of a pandemic flu epidemic. A significant number of large organizations have a pandemic plan in place which may help in … read more -
Enabling User-Driven Public Health Analyses through Automated Data Querying
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Public health officials are now receiving more data than ever in electronic formats, and also stand to benefit more than ever from ongoing advances in the medical and epidemiological sciences. At the same time, this growing … read more -
Evaluation of chlamydia and gonorrhea electronic provider reports data quality
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Electronic case reporting (eCR) is defined as the fully or semiautomated generation and electronic transmission of reportable disease case reports from an electronic health record (EHR) system to public health authorities, replacing the historically… read more -
Enhanced Public Health Surveillance Activities in Miami-Dade County for Super Bowl XLI
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A large event such as the Super Bowl that attracts over 120,000 visitors to an area within a short period of time has the potential to increase the risk of communicable diseases and environmental hazards in a community in… read more -
Enhancing Community Connectivity for Infectious Disease Surveillance in Child Care Centres in Hong Kong
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The Centre for Health Protection in Hong Kong has operated a sentinel surveillance system for infectious diseases at child care centre (CCC) since March 2004, among its multi-faceted disease surveillance systems. Forty-six CCCs have… read more -
Enhancing Event Communication in Disease Surveillance: ECC 2.0
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Regional disease surveillance systems allow users the ability to view large amounts of population health information and examine automated alerts that suggest increased disease activity. These systems require users to view and… read more