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Validation of Analytic Methods for Combining Evidence Sources in Biosurveillance
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Recent years' informatics advances have increased availability of various sources of health-monitoring information to agencies responsible for disease surveillance. These sources differ in clinical relevance and reliability, and range from… read moreValidation of Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Respiratory Syndrome using Electronic Health Records
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Effective and valid surveillance of syndromes can be extremely useful in the early detection of outbreaks and disease trends. However, medical chart checks without patient identifiers and lack of diagnoses in A08 data has made validation difficult.… read moreValidity of the Surveillance Quality Indicators - Timeliness and Completeness - in Surveillance Systems with Variable Data Quality
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India is one of the global Ãhot-spotsà for emergence and re-emergence of pathogens and propagation of those that are drug resistant. Disease surveillance gained momentum in India only after the outbreaks of cholera in Delhi in 1988 and plague in… read moreVillage Doctors' Acceptability to a Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural China
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Emphasis has been placed on the improvement of existing surveillance systems and developing innovative new surveillance systems around the world after the events of 9/11 in 2001, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003. Investments have not… read moreDiscover the 2013 ISDS Conference
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Whether you are planning on attending the ISDS Conference for the first time this December or you have been attending since 2002, the ISDS Scientific Program Committee invites you to discover the 2013 ISDS Conference! This webinar will highlight the… read moreUsing Sydromic Surveillance to Track E-cigarette Related Emergency Department Visits
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The North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) investigated the feasibility of using syndromic surveillance (SyS) data to identify health care visits due to electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use. E-cigarettes have been associated with injuries and… read moreSyndromic Surveillance for Meaningful Use: Inpatient and Ambulatory Clinical Care Data
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Presented November 8, 2011 Charlie Ishikawa, MSPH, the Associate Director of Public Health Programs at ISDS, gives an introduction and project overview of the new ISDS Meaningful Use initiative. Watch this video to learn more about the new… read moreIHR Event Assessment and Reporting- The CDC Experience
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Presented: Thursday, January 12, 2012 This presentation will describe the implementation of assessment and reporting of public health events under the IHR framework by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The presenter will… read more