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Determinants of Outbreak Detection Performance
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The choice of outbreak detection algorithm and its configuration can result in important variations in the performance of public health surveillance systems. Our work aims to characterize the performance of detectors based on outbreak types. We are… read more -
Development of a Vietnamese Language Outbreak Mapping and Surveillance System
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In the South East Asia Region (SEAR), infectious disease continues to be a leading cause of death. SEAR countries, like Vietnam, are also at risk for outbreaks of emerging diseases due to high population density, proximity to animals and… read more -
Development of Automated Data Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System
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Understanding your data is a fundamental pillar of disease surveillance success. With the increase in automated, electronic surveillance tools many public health users have begun to rely on those tools to produce reports that contain processed… read more -
Differentiating ZIP Codes in Syndromic Data; What Can They Tell Us?
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The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) ED syndromic surveillance system receives data from 95% of all ED visits in NYC totaling 4 million visits each year. The data include residential ZIP code as reported by the patient. ZIP code… read more -
Disease Mapping with Spatially Uncertain Data
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Uncertainty introduced by the selective identification of cases must be recognized and corrected for in order to accurately map the distribution of risk. Consider the problem of identifying geographic areas with increased risk of DRTB. Most… read more -
Disease Models for Event Prediction
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One of the primary goals of this research was to characterize the viability of biosurveillance models to provide operationally relevant information to decision makers, in order to identify areas for future research. Two critical characteristics… read more -
Disease Surveillance and Achieving Synergy In Public Health Quality Improvement
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National efforts to improve quality in public health are closely tied to advancing capabilities in disease surveillance. Measures of public health quality provide data to demonstrate how public health programs, services, policies, and research… read more -
Does Antimicrobial Prescription Data Improve Influenza Surveillance in VA?
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Antimicrobial prescriptions are a new data source available to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) biosurveillance program. Little is known about whether antiviral or antibacterial prescription data correlates with influenza ICD-9-CM coded… read more