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Development of Syndrome Definitions for Acute Unintentional Drug and Heroin Overdose
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Nationally, deaths due to opioid overdose have continually increased for the past 15 years . Deaths specifically related to heroin increased more than four-fold between 2002 and 2014. Hospital inpatient discharge data provide information on non… read more -
Approaches to Prediction Models for Poison Control Center-Based Syndromic Surveillance for Foodborne Illness
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To construct and validate a prediction algorithm that detects early increases in laboratory reports of enteric illnesses on the basis of calls to a poison control center reporting suspected foodborne illnesses. -
Argus: A Global Detection and Tracking System for Biological Events
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Objective. This paper describes Project Argus, a novel foreign biological event detection and tracking system. -
Arizona's Integrated Influenza Surveillance for School Children
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1) Describe ArizonaÃs integrated influenza surveillance for school children with a retrospective analysis of data from multiple sources including School-based Syndromic Surveillance Program (SSSP), laboratory-confirmed influenza case reports,… read more -
Arizona's Near Real Time School-based Syndromic Surveillance Program
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1) Describe a near real-time school-based syndromic surveillance program that integrates electronic data records and a two-way health alert system for early outbreak detection, notification, and possible intervention for Arizona schools. 2)… read more -
Assessing and Optimizing the Accuracy of Physician Billing Claims for Use in Automated Syndromic Surveillance
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To assess the accuracy of community-based physician claims for identifying 5 syndromes: fever, gastrointestinal, neurological, rash, and respiratory. -
Assessing the Coverage of BioCaster Terms in Web News
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We describe here a multilingual ontology to support disease surveillance by intelligent text mining systems from Web-based rumours. We informally assessed the coverage of its English terms on large sample of news collected from the Web. -
Assessing the Impact of Syndromic Surveillance Systems on Routine Public Health Practice: Identifying and Evaluating Syndromic Signals
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We describe the development and implementation of a protocol for identifying syndromic signals and for assessing their value to public health departments for routine (non-bioterrorism) purposes. The specific objectives of the evaluation are to… read more