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ED Visits Related to Marijuana Exposures in the Denver Metropolitan Area of Colorado
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Assessing health disparities and access to healthcare has been an important issue for emergency preparedness and response efforts in the Denver metropolitan area. There have been several high profile MJ-related illness outbreaks in the US over the… read moreComparison of Air Passenger Travel Volume Data Sources for Biosurveillance
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The National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) has the responsibility to integrate, analyze, and share the nation’s biosurveillance information provided from capabilities distributed across public and private sectors. The integration of… read moreMeaningful use and public health surveillance: to travel fast or far?
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There is an ancient African proverb that states, ‘If you want to travel fast, travel alone; if you want to travel far, travel together.’ This paper examines the issue of whether public health can and should ‘go it alone’ in efforts for creating… read moreMethodology for prediction of outbreaks of diseases of military importance
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Traditional public health practice has relied on public health surveillance of disease to detect outbreaks in an effort to mitigate their effects. Often the earlier an outbreak is detected, the greater the mitigation of its effects. The logical… read moreNon-parametric intensity bounds for the visualization of disease clusters
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Consider the most likely disease cluster produced by any given method, like SaTScan, for the detection and inference of spatial clusters in a map divided into areas; if this cluster is found to be statistically significant, what could be… read moreOptimal sequential management decisions for influenza outbreaks
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Management policies for influenza outbreaks balance the expected morbidity and mortality costs versus the cost of intervention policies under outbreak parameter uncertainty. Previous approaches have not updated parameter estimates as data arrives… read moreImpact of alternate diagnoses on the accuracy of influenza-like illness case definition used for H1N1 screening in the emergency department
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In June 2009, the CDC defined a confirmed case of H1N1 as a person with an ILI and laboratory confirmed novel influenza A H1N1 virus infection. ILI is defined by the CDC as fever and cough and/or sore throat, in the absence of a known cause… read moreComparison of Exposure to Risk Factors for Giardiasis Among Endemic and Travel Cases
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Increasing immigration to Canada coupled with the increasing number of Canadians travelling domestically and abroad is expected to significantly impact the burden of illness due to enteropathogens, including Giardia, in Canada . When estimating… read more