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An ISDS-Based Initiative for Conventions for Biosurveillance Data Analysis Methods
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Twelve years into the 21st century, after publication of hundreds of articles and establishment of numerous biosurveillance systems worldwide, there is no agreement among the disease surveillance community on most effective technical methods for… read more -
Analysis of Heat Illness using Michigan Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance
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The MSSS, described elsewhere (1), has been in use since 2003 and records Emergency Department (ED) chief complaint data along with the patient’s age, gender and zip code in real time. There were 85/139 hospital EDs enrolled in MSSS as of June 2012… read more -
Applying Zero-inflated Mixed Model to School Absenteeism Surveillance in Rural China
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Absenteeism has great advantages in promoting the early detection of epidemics1. Since August 2011, an integrated syndromic surveillance project (ISSC) has been implemented in China2. Distribution of the absenteeism generally are asymmetry, zero… read more -
Automated Surveillance of Outpatients with Pneumonia: A Performance Evaluation
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Effective responses to epidemics of infectious diseases hinge not only on early outbreak detection, but also on an assessment of disease severity. In recent work, we combined previously developed ARI case-detection algorithms (CDA) [1] with text… read more -
Bayesian Contact Tracing for Communicable Respiratory Disease
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The evolution of novel influenza viruses in humans is a bio- logical phenomenon that can not be stopped. All existing data suggest that vaccination against the morbidity and mortality of the novel influenza viruses is our best line of defence.… read more -
BioSense 2.0
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BioSense 2.0 protects the health of the American people by providing timely insight into the health of communities, regions, and the nation by offering a variety of features to improve data collection, standardization, storage, analysis, and… read more -
Developing a Prototype Opioid Surveillance System at a 2-Day Virginia Hackathon
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At the Governorâs Opioid Addiction Crisis Datathon in September 2017, a team of Booz Allen data scientists participated in a two-day hackathon to develop a prototype surveillance system for business users to locate areas of high risk across… read more -
Conducting operational research during outbreaks to improve preparedness and response
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Each significant outbreak and epidemic raises questions that must be answered in order to better inform future preparedness and response efforts, such as:- What are the systems and resources needed to characterize an outbreak? …