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Builiding Methods for a Proactive Prescription Drug Surveillance System
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) are operating in 49 states and several U.S. territories. Current methods for surveillance of prescription drug related behaviors, include the mean daily dosage of morphine milligram equivalent (MME) per… read more -
Burden and deaths associated with vaccine preventable diseases in Canada, 2010-2014
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Vaccination is one of the most successful public health interventions. Despite this, there are a variety of reasons that VPDs continue to be seen in developed countries such as Canada. This analysis describes the recent trends in the burden of… read more -
2016 International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference New Frontiers in Surveillance: Data Science and Health Security
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The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) held its fifteenth annual conference in Atlanta, GA, from December 6-8, 2016. Since 2001, individuals interested in sharing and learning emerging trends in surveillance research and practice… read more -
A Novel Hotel-based Syndromic Surveillance System for the Caribbean Region
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To describe the Caribbean Public Health Agency’s (CARPHA) Tourism and Health Information System (THiS), a web-based syndromic surveillance system to increase the capacity of Caribbean countries to monitor the health of visitors and staff in hotels,… read more -
A practitioner-driven research agenda for syndromic surveillance
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To obtain feedback and seek future directions for an ISDS initiative to establish and update research questions in Informatics, Analytics, Communications, and Systems Research with the greatest perceived impact for improving surveillance practice. -
A regional approach for the influenza surveillance in France
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To describe the results of the new organization of influenza surveillance in France, based on a regional approach. This regional multi-source approach has been made possible by the sharing of data visualizations and statistical results through a web… read more -
A Spatial Biosurveillance Synthetic Data Generator in R
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To develop a spatially accurate biosurveillance synthetic data generator for the testing, evaluation, and comparison of new outbreak detection techniques. -
Utility of Outpatient Syndromic Data for Monitoring Influenza-like Illness
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The North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) collects outpatient ILI data through North Dakota Influenza-like Illness Network (ND ILINet), providing situational awareness regarding the percent of visits for ILI at sentinel sites across the state.… read more