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An Algorithm for Early Outbreak Detection in Multiple Data Streams
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Current biosurveillance systems run multiple univariate statistical process control (SPC) charts to detect increases in multiple data streams. The method of using multiple univariate SPC charts is easy to implement and easy to interpret. By… read more -
An Analysis of Risk Communication Surrounding Increases in a Polio-like Condition in the U.S.
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In 2014, CDC started receiving an increase in reports of children in the United States with unexplained limb weakness or paralysis (120 total cases). These children were later confirmed by neurology experts to have a rare condition called acute… read more -
Eliciting Disease Data from Wikipedia Articles
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Traditional disease surveillance systems suffer from several disadvantages, including reporting lags and antiquated technology, that have caused a movement towards internet-based disease surveillance systems. Recently, Wikipedia access logs (e.g.,… read more -
An Assessment of Birth Registration System and Factors Affecting in India and its States.
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Civil Registration system (CRS) in India has been in vogue for more than 100 years now. The registration of Birth and Deaths Act, 1969 came into force in 1970. Even after 4 decades of the enactment of the act, there are wide inter-state and intra-… read more -
An Assessment of Overdose Surveillance at a Local Public Health Department
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Mirroring public health response to infectious disease outbreaks, many public health departments are taking an outbreak management approach to respond to drug overdose surges 1-3. The Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD) has developed an… read more -
An Assessment of the EMS Drug Overdose to Death Pathway from 2011 to 2017
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Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, with an estimated 60,000 deaths in 2016. Nationally, EMS overdose responses with naloxone administration have nearly doubled from 2012 to 2016 from 573.6 to 1004.4… read more -
Analysis of Emergency Department Visits for Motor Vehicle Injuries in Utah, 2016
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Motor vehicle injury is the leading cause of death in injury category in the United States. In 2016, motor vehicle crashes were one of the main causes of death resulting from injury (8.8 per 100,000 population) in Utah. Motor vehicle crashes can… read more -
Analysis of Three CRISPR Loci Among Yersinia pestis Stains from Georgia and Neighboring Countries
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Particular family of tandem repeats, such as Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) found in a wide range of prokaryotic genomes. CRISPRs consist of highly conserved repeats interspaced with non-repetitive elements or "… read more