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Assessing Best Practices for Grouping and Analyzing Urgent Care Center (UCC) and Emergency Department (ED) Data Sources within Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) electronically receives both urgent care center (UCC) data and hospital emergency department (ED) data from health care facilities in 43 of its 67 counties through its Electronic Surveillance System for the… read moreAssessing the Impact of Climate Change and Land Use Variation on Microbial Transport Using Watershed Scale-modeling
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The scientific community accepts that global climate change (CC) will affect the dispersion of microbial organisms in the environment. Risks posed by the transport of these organisms to future communities may be very different than those posed today… read moreAssessing the Rising Cases of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus: Hospital and Community-associated Cases
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has since become a major cause of illness and death in our healthcare setting. Risk factors for HA-MRSA include hospitalization, older age, invasive devices, and residence in long-term care facility… read moreAlert-Enabled Application Integrating Data Quality Monitoring for Multiple Sources
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Data sets from disparate sources widely vary in the number and type of factors which most hamper integrity and timeliness of the data. To maintain high quality data, data sets must be regularly assessed, particularly for those vulnerabilities that… read moreAssociation between Influenza-like Illnesses and Social Determinants of Health by Census Tract in Houston/Harris County
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The Houston Department of Health Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) monitors emergency departments (ED) chief complaints across the Houston metropolitan area, Harris County, and the surrounding jurisdictions by Real-time Outbreak… read moreAutomated Real-Time Surveillance Using Health Indicator Data Received at Different Time Intervals
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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center have developed a hybrid processing engine that alerts monitors when a severe health condition exists based on corroboration among several sources of data.… read moreAutomating BioSense 2.0 Locker Processing for Local Program-Specific Surveillance
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Syndromic surveillance can provide early warning of potential public health emergencies and acute health events in a population. The sharing and aggregation of syndromic data among jurisdictions can provide more comprehensive situational awareness… read moreAutoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Modeling of Time Series of Local Telephone Triage Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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National telephone health advice service data have been investigated as a source for syndromic surveillance of influenza-like illness and gastroenteritis . Providing a high level of coverage, the system might serve as an early outbreak detection… read more