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Optimal 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 more -
Impact 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 more -
Comparison 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 -
New Master Facility Table: Improving the Quality of Facility Data
Content Type: Webinar
The Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance (DHIS) team has been working to clean, standardize, and improve the quality of data on the Master Facility Table (MFT). The MFT provides a unique identifier for each facility along with facility… read more -
Impact of including physician’s prescribing directions on calculations of medication possession ratios
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Medication adherence studies typically use pharmacy-dispensing data to infer drug exposures. These studies often require calculations reflecting the intensity and duration of drug exposure. The typical approach to estimating duration of drug… read more -
Incorporating seasonality and other long-term trends improves surveillance for acute respiratory infections
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As the electronic medical record (EMR) market matures, long-term time series of EMR-based surveillance data are becoming available. In this work, we hypothesized that statistical aberrancy-detection methods that incorporate seasonality and other… read more -
Application of biosurveillance methodology to the 2010 Asian foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks
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Argus is an event-based, multi-lingual, biosurveillance system, which captures and analyzes information from publicly available internet media. Argus produces reports that summarize and contextualize direct, indirect, and… read more -
Influenza mortality surveillance using a statewide electronic death registration system F Nebraska, 2009–2010
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Public health surveillance using death data is critical for tracking the impact of diseases such as influenza. However, utility of such systems is compromised by delayed reporting, particularly when it is paper based. In Nebraska, funeral directors… read more
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