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Where do you Find Interesting Biosurveillance Publications?
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To identify the disciplines and journal titles of surveillance-related publications from a wide range of indexed repositories and to draw attention to the publication repository created by the ISDS Research Committee. Introduction… read moreWikipedia Usage Estimates Prevalence of Influenza-like Illness in Near Real-Time
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The purpose of this work was to develop a novel method of estimating the amount of influenza-like illness (ILI) in a population, in near-real time, by using a source of information that is completely open to the public and free to access. We… read moreStatistical Monitoring of Condemnations from Slaughterhouses
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Meat inspection data are routinely collected over several years providing the possibility to use historical data for constructing a baseline model defining the expected normal behaviour of the indicator monitored. In countries in which the reporting… read moreSupplementing Obesity-Related Surveillance with Persistent Health Assessment Tools
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In response to the rise in obesity rates and obesity-related healthcare costs over the past several decades, numerous organizations have implemented obesity prevention programs. The current method for evaluating the success of these programs relies… read moreSurveillance for Opioid Overdose in the Veterans Health Administration, 2004-2014
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Drug poisoning, or overdose, is an epidemic problem in the United States1,2. In keeping with national trends, a recent study combining U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) data with the National Death Index showed increases in opioid overdose… read moreSurveillance of Cardio Vascular Risk Factors Among Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
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According to world health organization report 2011, coronary artery diseases are the number one cause of death globally: more people die annually from coronary artery diseases than from any other cause. An estimated 17.3 million people died from… read moreSurveillance of Surveillance: Inventorying Gaps and Commonalities Across the Universe of Surveillance Systems
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Health surveillance systems provide important functionalities to detect, monitor, respond, prevent, and report on a variety of conditions across multiple owners. They offer important capabilities, with some of the most fundamental including data… read moreSurveillance on Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in East Asia
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Regional disease surveillance as well as data transparency and sharing are the global trend for mitigating the threat of infectious diseases. The WHO has already played a leading role in FluNet (http:// www.who.int/influenza/gisrs_laboratory/flunet/… read more