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Use of BioSense for Rapid Assessment of the Safety of Medical Countermeasures
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BioSense is a national human health surveillance system for disease detection, monitoring, and situation awareness through near realtime access to existing electronic healthcare encounter information, including information from hospital emergency… read more -
Use of Control Bar Matrix for Outbreak Detection in Syndromic Surveillance System
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Aberration detection methods are essential for analyzing and interpreting large quantity of nonspecific real-time data collected in syndromic surveillance system. However, the challenge lies in distinguishing true outbreak signals from a large… read more -
Use of Syndromic Data to Determine Oral Health Visit Burden on Emergency Departments
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Concern over oral health-related ED visits stems from the increasing number of unemployed and uninsured, the cost burden of these visits, and the unavailability of indicated dental care in EDs [1]. Of particular interest to NC state public health… read more -
Use of Syndromic Surveillance Information for Expanded Assessment of Wildfire Disaster
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Syndromic surveillance information can be a useful for the early recognition of outbreaks, acute public health events and in response to natural disasters. Inhalation of particulate matter from wildland fire smoke has been linked to various acute… read more -
Usefulness of Syndromic Surveillance for Early Outbreak Detection in Small Islands: The Case of Mayotte
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Mayotte Island, a French overseas department of around 374 km2 and 200 000 inhabitants is located in the North of Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean (Figure1). In response to the threat of the pandemic influenza A(H1N1)2009 virus emergence, a… read more -
User Experience of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Respiratory Disease Dashboard
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Lessons learned from the 2009 influenza pandemic have driven many changes in the standards and practices of respiratory disease surveillance worldwide. In response to the needs for timely information sharing of emerging respiratory pathogens (1),… read more -
Using Change Point Detection for Monitoring the Quality of Aggregate Data
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Data consisting of counts or indicators aggregated from multiple sources pose particular problems for data quality monitoring when the users of the aggregate data are blind to the individual sources. This arises when agencies wish to share data but… read more -
Using Cloud Technology to Support Monitoring During High Profile Events
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Hospital emergency departments in Cook and surrounding counties currently send data to the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) instance of ESSENCE on CCDPH servers. The cloud instance of ESSENCE has been enhanced to receive and export… read more