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Characterizing Public Health Actions in Response to Syndromic Surveillance Alerts
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Public health in Ontario, Canada has no standardized system for carrying out syndromic surveillance. Previous research had demonstrated wide variation in the implementation of syndromic surveillance. Objective: To describe… read more -
A Method for Detecting and Characterizing Multiple Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases
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We describe an automated system that can detect multiple outbreaks of infectious diseases from emergency department reports. A case detection system obtains data from electronic medical records, extracts features using natural language… read more -
A Suggestion to Improve Timely Feedback of Infectious Disease Surveillance Data at a Provincial Level in South Korea
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In South Korea, the NNDSS is organized at three levels: local, provincial, and central. At the local level, physicians report the cased to the Public Health Center (PHC) and PHC conduct control measures. At the provincial level, the PHC reports the… read more -
A Timeliness Study of Disease Surveillance Data Post ELR Implementation in Houston
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Since 2009, Houston Health Department (HHD) uses an electronic disease surveillance system (Maven) to receive ELRs from reporting facilities in the Houston jurisdiction. Currently, two large hospital systems, a blood bank, two large commercial labs… read more -
A Tool to Improve Communicable Disease Surveillance Data
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NYS (excluding NYC) has a very robust Communicable Disease Electronic Surveillance System (CDESS). This system provides disease specific modules, as well as a tracking system for contacts, and a perinatal infant tracking system. This system provides… read more -
Acute Gastroenteritis: Contribution of SOS Médecins Network
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In France, the surveillance of GE is performed by several complementary systems including specific and syndromic surveillance systems. The GP’s emergency associations “SOS Médecins” are part of the French syndromic surveillance system SurSaUD… read more -
Socio-environmental and measurement factors drive variation in influenza-like illness
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Traditional infectious disease epidemiology is built on the foundation of high quality and high accuracy data on disease and behavior. Digital infectious disease epidemiology, on the other hand, uses existing digital traces, re-purposing them to… read more -
Spatial analysis of SS population coverage based on emergency regional healthcare
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SOS Médecins France (SOS Med) is the first private and permanent network of general practitioners providing emergency care in France. Besides Hospital emergency departments (HED), SOS Med is therefore a major source of data for detecting and… read more