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A Temporal Change-Point Framework for Syndromic Surveillance in an Academic Environment
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The H5N1 avian influenza virus is now considered endemic in poultry in some parts of the world and the continued exposure in humans suggests that the risk of the virus evolving into a more transmissible agent in humans − a step… read more -
A Temporal Method for Outbreak Detection Using a Bayesian Network
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Non-temporal Bayesian network outbreak detection methods only look at data from the most recent day. For example, PANDA-CDCA (PC) only looks at data from the last 24 hours to determine how likely an outbreak is occurring. PC… read more -
A Visual Analytics Toolkit for Evaluating Potential Syndromic Outbreaks
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Our toolkit adds statistical trend analysis, interactive plots, and kernel density estimation to an existing spatio-temporal visualization platform. The goal of these tools is to provide both a quick assessment of the current… read more -
Absenteeism Among Employees in a Southeastern Ontario Hospital: A Novel Application of Syndromic Surveillance
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Sickness absence is particularly pronounced within health care organizations where job demands and work environment expose workers to an increased risk of illness and injury, potentially leading to an inability to attend work.… read more -
Accounting for Acceleration of Disease Rates with Age in Biosurveillance Systems: The SIMPLE Method
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Accurate and precise estimation of disease rates for a given population during a specified time frame is a major concern for public health practitioners and researchers in biosurveillance. Many diseases follow distinct patterns;… read more -
Accuracy versus Timeliness for Influenza Detection: A Comparison of Hospital Syndromic Surveillance Data with Discharge Data
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Hospital syndromic surveillance data may be a useful tool in detecting increases in influenza-like-illness (ILI) and for monitoring seasonal trends or pandemic activity on a local level. A previous comparison of hospital… read more -
Accurate Detection of Arbitrarily-Shaped Spatial Disease Clusters
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Methods for locating spatial clusters of diseases are typically variations of the circular scan statistic method. They restrict the number of potential clusters by considering all circular, rectangular, or elliptical regions, and then apply a… read more -
Active Fever Surveillance During Malaria Outbreak in Western Jamaica
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Malaria, major leading cause of morbidity and mortality in third world countries has been successfully eliminated from Jamaica since 1965. This, however, is being constantly challenged by lack of sustained vector control… read more