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  • Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality

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    Health care processes consume increasing volumes of digital data. However, creating and leveraging high quality integrated health data is challenging because large-scale health data derives from systems where data is captured from varying workflows… read more
    … data sources; there are known data quality issues that hinder the utility of such data; and there is a paucity of … data sources; there are known data quality issues that hinder the utility of such data; and there is a paucity of …
  • Re-emerging Infectious Disease (RED) Alert tool

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    Definitions of “re-emerging infectious diseases” typically encompass any disease occurrence that was a historic public health threat, declined dramatically, and has since presented itself again as a significant health problem. Examples include… read more
    … the conventional practice, this has the potential to hinder effective public health responses. Defining … the conventional practice, this has the potential to hinder effective public health responses. Defining …
  • Rates and causes of stillbirth in a demographic surveillance site in Karachi, Pakistan

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    Stillbirth remained a neglected issue absent from mention in Millennium Development Goals. An estimated 2.6 million babies are stillborn every year with highest rate in Pakistan, 43.1 stillbirths/1000 births. There is lack of good quality… read more
    … rate in Pakistan, 43.1 stillbirths/1000 births. There is lack of good quality prospective population based data in … rate in Pakistan, 43.1 stillbirths/1000 births. There is lack of good quality prospective population based data in …
  • Nontraumatic Oral Health Classification for Alternative Use of Syndromic Data

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    Lack of access to regular dental care often results in costly, oral health visits to EDs that could otherwise have been prevented or managed by a dentist (1). Most studies on oral health-related visits to EDs have used a wide range of… read more
    … Lack of access to regular dental care often results in … Lack of access to regular dental care often results in …
  • A Grid Based Approach to Share Public Health Surveillance Applications - The R Example

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    Currently, there’s little effective communication and collaboration among public health departments. The lack of collaboration has resulted in more than 300 separate biosurveillance systems, which are disease specific, not integrated or… read more
    … and collaboration among public health departments. The lack of collaboration has resulted in more than 300 separate … and collaboration among public health departments. The lack of collaboration has resulted in more than 300 separate …
  • Relationship Between Baseline Influenza-like Illness Rates And Healthcare Settings

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    The primary goal of syndromic surveillance is early recognition of disease trends, in order to identify and control infectious disease outbreaks, such as influenza. For surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI), public health departments receive… read more
    … clinics and emergency departments. However, the lack of standardization of these data sources may lead to … clinics and emergency departments. However, the lack of standardization of these data sources may lead to …
  • How Missing Discharge Diagnosis Data in Syndromic Surveillance Leads to Coverage Gaps

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    Indiana utilizes the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) to collect and analyze data from participating hospital emergency departments. This real-time collection of health related data is… read more
    … see under reporting or incomplete surveillance due to the lack of the discharge diagnosis field. Objective: To … see under reporting or incomplete surveillance due to the lack of the discharge diagnosis field. Objective: To …
  • Multi-dimensional Problems in Health Settings: A Review of Approaches to Decision Making

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    There appears to be a growing number of prioritization exercises, for example of diseases, in health related settings (1). The decision process around these exercises involves comparing competing alternatives, i.e. diseases, and irreducible… read more
    … to the multi-dimensional nature of the problem, the lack of reliable data, group dynamics associated to the … to the multi-dimensional nature of the problem, the lack of reliable data, group dynamics associated to the …