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Adaptation of GUARDIAN for Syndromic Surveillance During the NATO Summit
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Special event driven syndromic surveillance is often initiated by public health departments with limited time for development of an automated surveillance framework, which can result in heavy reliance on frontline care providers and potentially miss… read more -
Adapting Syndromic Surveillance Systems to Increase Value to Local Health Departments
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Syndromic surveillance systems offer richer understanding of population health. However, because of their complexity, they are less used at small public health agencies, such as many local health departments (LHDs). The evolution of these systems… read more -
Advancing Surveillance of Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease - Path Forward
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Major global stakeholder groups including the United Nations, World Health Organization and Institute of Medicine seek to raise awareness of the threat to global health and security of chronic and non-communicable diseases. These conditions comprise… read more -
Advancing Surveillance Outside the USA: The Canadian Policy, Practice, and Research Context
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The international Society for Disease Surveillance has successfully brought together practitioners and researchers to share tools, ideas, and strategies to strengthen health surveillance systems. The Society has evolved from an initial focus on… read more -
An Algorithm That Identifies Coronary and Heart Failure Events In The Electronic Health Record
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Surveillance to track the incidence, prevalence and treatment of disease is a fundamental task of public health. The advent of universal health care coverage in the United States and electronic health records could make the medical record a valuable… read more -
An Experimental Study Using Opt-in Internet Panel Surveys for Behavioral Health Surveillance
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Today, surveyors in both the private and public sectors are facing considerable challenges with random digit dialed (RDD) landline telephone samples. The population coverage rates for landline telephone surveys are being eroded by wireless-only… read more -
An Improved Algorithm for Outbreak Detection in Multiple Surveillance Systems
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There has been much interest in the use of statistical surveillance systems over the last decade, prompted by concerns over bio-terrorism, the emergence of new pathogens such as SARS and swine flu, and the persistent public health problems of… read more -
An Integrated Syndromic Surveillance System for Monitoring Scarlet Fever in Taiwan
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Scarlet fever is a bacterial infection caused by group A streptococcus (GAS). The clinical symptoms are usually mild. Before October, 2007, case-based surveillance of scarlet fever was conducted through notifiable infectious diseases in Taiwan, but… read more