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Syndromic Surveillance at the New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
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The New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (NYSVDL) receives more than 100,000 diagnostic submissions a year that are not currently used in any formal syndromic surveillance system. In 2009, a pilot study of syndrome classification schemes… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance Based on Emergency Visits: A Reactive Tool for Unusual Events Detection
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The late health events such as the heat wave of 2003 showed the need to make public health surveillance evolve in France. Thus, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance has developed syndromic surveillance systems based on several… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance for Outbreak Detection and Investigation
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A large part of the applied research on syndromic surveillance targets seasonal epidemics, e.g. influenza, winter vomiting disease, rotavirus and RSV, in particular when dealing with preclinical indicators, e.g. web traffic. The research on local… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance from a Local Perspective: A Review of the Literature
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Public health disease surveillance is defined as the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health data for use in the planning, implementation and evaluation of public health, with the overarching goal of providing… read more -
Using Cultural Modeling to Inform a NEDSS-Compatible System Functionality Evaluation
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The National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS) comprises many activities including collaborations, processes, standards, and systems which support gathering data from US states and territories. As part of NNDSS, the National Electronic… read more -
Using GI Syndrome Data as an Early Warning Tool for Norovirus Outbreak Activity
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Norovirus infection results in considerable morbidity in the United States where an estimated 21 million illnesses, 70,000 hospitalizations, and 800 deaths are caused by NV annually. Additionally, NV is responsible for approximately 50% of foodborne… read more -
Using Google Dengue Trends to Estimate Climate Effects in Mexico
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The incidence of dengue fever (DF) has increased 30 fold between 1960 and 2010. The literature suggests that temperature plays a major role in the life cycle of the mosquito vector and in turn, the timing of DF outbreaks. We use real-time data from… read more -
Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality
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Health care processes consume increasing volumes of digital data. However, creating and leveraging high quality integrated health data is challenging because large-scale health data derives from systems where data is captured from varying workflows… read more