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Assessing the Rising Cases of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus: Hospital and Community-associated Cases
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has since become a major cause of illness and death in our healthcare setting. Risk factors for HA-MRSA include hospitalization, older age, invasive devices, and residence in long-term care facility… read more -
Association between Influenza-like Illnesses and Social Determinants of Health by Census Tract in Houston/Harris County
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The Houston Department of Health Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) monitors emergency departments (ED) chief complaints across the Houston metropolitan area, Harris County, and the surrounding jurisdictions by Real-time Outbreak… read more -
Automated Real-Time Surveillance Using Health Indicator Data Received at Different Time Intervals
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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center have developed a hybrid processing engine that alerts monitors when a severe health condition exists based on corroboration among several sources of data.… read more -
Automating BioSense 2.0 Locker Processing for Local Program-Specific Surveillance
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Syndromic surveillance can provide early warning of potential public health emergencies and acute health events in a population. The sharing and aggregation of syndromic data among jurisdictions can provide more comprehensive situational awareness… read more -
Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Modeling of Time Series of Local Telephone Triage Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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National telephone health advice service data have been investigated as a source for syndromic surveillance of influenza-like illness and gastroenteritis . Providing a high level of coverage, the system might serve as an early outbreak detection… read more -
Best Practices for Implementing Electronic Disease Surveillance Systems in Resources-constrained Settings
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Developing countries bear the highest burden of infectious diseases, and therefore play a key role in the detection of emerging disease threats. The ability of these countries to detect such events allows an adequate response preventing its spread… read more -
BioSense 2.0 Governance: Surveying Users and Stakeholders for Continued Development
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The CDC's BioSense 2.0 system is designed with a user-centered approach, where the needs and requests of the users are part of its continued development. User requirements were gathered extensively to help design BioSense 2.0 and users continue to… read more -
Biosurveillance Data Stream Framework: A Novel Approach to Characterization and Evaluation
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Multiple data sources are used in a variety of biosurveillance systems. With the advent of new technologies, globalization, high performance computing, and "big data" opportunities, there are seemingly unlimited potential data streams that could be… read more