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Using AFDL Algorithm to Estimate Risk of Positive Outcomes of Microbial Tests at Food Establishments
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One of the common tasks faced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) food safety analysts is to estimate the risk of observing positive outcomes of microbial tests of food samples collected at the slaughter and food… read moreUsing Age as Space: Looking for Citywide Age Clusters of Influenza
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There has been much recent interest in using disease signatures to better recognize disease outbreaks. Conversely, the metrics used to describe these signatures can also be used to better characterize the outbreaks. Recent work at the New York City… read moreUsing Biosurveillance Whole-System Facsimiles To Compare Aberrancy-Detection Methods: Should BioSense Use SatScan?
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OBJECTIVE A “whole-system facsimile” recreates a complex automated biosurveillance system running prospectively on real historical datasets. We systematized this approach to compare the performance of otherwise… read moreUsing Business Intelligence Tools to Automate Data Capture and Reporting
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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) serves public health users across NC at the local, regional and state levels, providing early event detection and situational awareness capabilities. At the… read moreUsing Electronic Surveillance Systems in Resource-Poor Settings: Why and How
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Difficulties in timely acquisition and interpretation of accurate data on communicable diseases can impede outbreak detection and control. These limitations are of global importance: they contribute to avoidable morbidity,… read moreA Suggestion to Improve Timely Feedback of Infectious Disease Surveillance Data at a Provincial Level in South Korea
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In South Korea, the NNDSS is organized at three levels: local, provincial, and central. At the local level, physicians report the cased to the Public Health Center (PHC) and PHC conduct control measures. At the provincial level, the PHC reports the… read moreUsing Emergency Department Disposition Data to Monitor Hospitalizations for Influenza-like Illness
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Emergency Department (ED) syndromic surveillance data for influenza-like illness (ILI) have been found to provide timely and representative information about current influenza activity in NYC. DOHMH monitors visits daily from 50 of 61… read moreUsing ESSENCE to Track a Gastrointestinal Outbreak in a Homeless Shelter in Miami-Dade County, 2008
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Although Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) provides tools to detect a significant alert regarding an unusual public health event, combining that information with … read more