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Exploring Multi-Cluster Structures with the Multi-Objective Circular Scan
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The spatial scan statistic is the usual measure of strength of a cluster [1]. Another important measure is its geometric regularity [2]. A genetic multiobjective algorithm was developed elsewhere to identify irregularly shaped clusters [3]. A search… read more -
Exploring Syndrome Definition by Applying Clustering Methods to Electronic Health Records Data
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Electronic Health Record (EHR) data offers the researcher a potentially rich source of data for tracking disease syndromes. Procedures performed on the patient, medications… read more -
Exploring the Gaps: Symptoms by Influenza Type and Enhanced Sampling
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The ability to accurately predict influenza infection by symptoms and local epidemiology prior to lab confirmation warrants further study… read more -
Exploring the Role of Quest Diagnostics Corporate Data Warehouse for Timely Influenza Surveillance
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A Quest Diagnostics Incorporated – CDC collaboration in 2000 pioneered exploration of test ordering data to enhance infectious diseasessurveillance1. This year’s unexpected shortage of vaccine and… read more -
Extending Comparisons Beyond Time and Space: Looking for Similarities Between Diseases
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Early detection of new diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy is the subject of great interest (Gibbens et al., 2008). Understanding whether a disease is infectious or sporadic becomes essential for the application of control measures.… read more -
Notifiable Disease Reporting among Physicians Practicing in Grenada
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Despite the significance of disease reporting to any health system, Grenada like most countries struggle with underreporting of notifiable diseases by physicians. In order to improve the national disease surveillance system in Grenada, it is… read more -
National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Data Quality Workgroup
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To provide community input on data quality issues and enhance data quality through sharing and testing of scripts. Summary of activities: The Data Quality workgroup has worked to address Data Quality issues through the… read more -
Extensibility in Semantic Web Description of Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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The semantic web is an emerging technology for expressing rich descriptions of a problem domain in the form of ontologies. An ontology provides a domain specific knowledge base… read more