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Sufficient reduction methods for multivariate surveillance
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Parallel surveillance, separate monitoring of each continuous series, has been widely used for multivariate surveillance, however, it has severe limitations. Firstly, it faces the problem of multiplicity from multiple testing. Also, the ignorance of… read more -
Impact of training on Disease Surveillance and Notification Officers in Nigeria
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Public health surveillance (also called field epidemiology) as defined by Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the ongoing systematic, collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome specific data essential to the planning ,… read more -
Subsidized laboratory testing as an incentive for improved livestock disease reporting
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Livestock owners normally pay the full cost of disease testing. As a result the number of laboratory submissions is dependent on the owner's perception that testing is beneficial. This decreases the likelihood of an accurate diagnosis and biases the… read more -
Emergency Department Patients with Gastrointestinal Symptoms During Federal Holidays, Miami-Dade 2007-2010
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People usually celebrate holidays by inviting family and friends to have food at home, or by gathering and eating at restaurants or in other public venues. This increased exposure to food with a common source can create conditions for outbreaks of… read more -
Tuning a Chief Complaint Text Parser for Use in DoD ESSENCE
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An expanded ambulatory health record, the Comprehensive Ambulatory Patient Encounter Record (CAPER) will provide multiple types of data for use in DoD ESSENCE. A new type of data not previously available is the Reason for Visit (ROV), a free-text… read more -
Enhancing Surveillance for Infectious Disease in the US-Mexico Border Region of Arizona
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The Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) program was established in 1999 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Mexico Secretariat of Health, following mandates from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and… read more -
Gossamer Health: A meaningful, open-source approach to shared surveillance software
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Cost-effective, flexible and innovative tools that integrate disparate data sets and allow sharing of information between geographically dispersed collaborators are needed to improve public health surveillance practice. Gossamer Health (Good Open… read more -
Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to Disease Emergence in Isolated Regions
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Argus is an event-based surveillance system which captures information from publicly available Internet media in multiple languages. The information is contextualized and indications and warning (I&W) of disease are identified. Reports are… read more