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Full Automatic Syndromic Surveillance System Using Prescription in Japan
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I Medical services for outpatients are well developed due to universal public health insurance. Even patients who have mild symptoms can visit a clinic freely in Japan. Thus the monitoring of outpatients provides very timely information to detect… read more -
BioSense 2.0 Webinar: The Kansas Experience, Health Information Exchanges, and Onboarding
Content Type: Webinar
Public health jurisdictions participating in BioSense 2.0 can be on-boarded in several ways, including one hospital at a time or through a health information exchange (HIE). Onboarding through an HIE can simplify the process and ease the burden on… read more -
Geographic Categorization Methods Used in BioSense
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BioSense is a CDC initiative to promote situational awareness through summarizing, analyzing, and presenting health related event information. Among the data sources collected and analyzed through the BioSense application are the Department of… read more -
Geographical Analysis of Heat-Related Illnesses Detected by RODS in Houston, Texas
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Heat surveillance in Houston is currently limited to mortality reports from the medical examiners office. A possible source of heat related morbidity is the Houston Real-time Outbreak Disease Surveillance (RODS) system. The RODS… read more -
Geographically Meaningful Cluster Scanning Through Weak Link Correction
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Many heuristics were developed recently to find arbitrarily shaped clusters (see review [1]). The most popular statistic is the spatial scan [2]. Nevertheless, even if all cluster solutions could be known, the problem of… read more -
Georgia's Strategy for Targeting Syndromic Surveillance
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As part of public health protection activities conducted in support of the G8 Summit in Sea Island, GA, June 2004, DPH implemented SS in the state’s coastal region using information provided from ED visits, 911 calls, and pharmacy sales. Following… read more -
Geospatial Direction of Syndromes in the District of Columbia
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The inception of syndromic surveillance has spawned a great deal of research into emergency department chief complaint data. In addition to its use as an early warning system of a bioterror or outbreak event, many health departments are attempting… read more -
GIS Mapping of Occupational Health Visit Data from a Southeastern Ontario Tertiary Care Hospital
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Health care workers (HCWs) have an increased risk of exposure to infectious agents including (among others) tuberculosis, influenza, norovirus, and Clostridium difficile as a consequence of patient care1,2 Most occupational transmission is… read more