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Using Bayesian Networks to Assist Decision-Making in Syndromic Surveillance
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Syndromic surveillance systems often produce large numbers of detections due to excess activity (alarms) in their indicators. Few alarms are classified as alerts (public health events that may require a response). Decision-making in syndromic… read more -
Using Health Helpline Mediated Self-Swabbing as a Surveillance Tool for Influenza
Content Type: Abstract
Currently, three main sources of data are used to monitor the prevalence of influenza in Ontario: Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) FluWatch, Ontario’s Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance (ACES) data and Public Health Ontario’s (PHO) traditional… read more -
Using Health-Seeking Pattern to Estimate Disease Burden from Sentinel Surveillance
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The general health-seeking behavior has been well described in different populations. However, how different symptoms have driven health-seeking behavior was less explored. From the patient’s perspective, health-seeking behavior tends to be… read more -
Using Laboratory Data to Aid Early Warning in Prospective Influenza Mortality Surveillance
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Several countries prospectively monitor influenza-attributable mortality using a variation of the Serfling seasonal time series model that uses sinusoidal terms for seasonality. Typically, a seasonal model from previous years is used to… read more -
Using National Health Insurance Claims Data to Supplement Notifiable Infectious Disease Surveillance System
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Introduction Infectious disease surveillance is very important as an element in public health system in the prevention and control of infectious diseases. Results of the Korean National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (KNNDSS) has contributed… read more -
Use of R for Visual Display of Public Health Data
Content Type: Webinar
Presented January 19, 2016. This presentation will briefly introduce concepts related to effective visual display and a “big picture” of why and how R is an excellent tool to produce such displays. Through examples, the overall mechanics for… read more -
How to Develop a Simple Shiny App
Content Type: Webinar
Recording of R-Group Meeting from February 26, 2015 - Jarad Niemi and Nick Michaud discuss how to develop a simply shiny app using R. -
Making Report-Quality Plots in R with Low-to-Moderate Coding Experience
Content Type: Webinar
Presented May 26, 2016. Eric Bakota will go over Hadley Wickham’s ‘ggplot2’ package using the same grammar of graphics framework outlined in Wickham’s 2010 paper on the subject. This webinar will discuss how to create a plot by looking at the… read more