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Wikipedia: a tool to monitor seasonal diseases trends?
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Today, Internet, especially Wikipedia, is an important part of everyday life. People can notably use this popular free online encyclopedia to search health-related information. Recent studies showed that Wikipedia data can be used to monitor and to… read more -
Enhancing Biosurveillance Specificity Using PraedicoTM, A Next Generation Application
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Many methods to detect outbreaks currently exist, although most are ineffective in the face of real data, resulting in high false positivity. More complicated methods have better precision, but can be difficult to interpret and justify. Praedico™ is… read more -
Evaluation of Legionellosis Surveillance in Michigan Focusing on Diagnostic Testing
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In Michigan, both presentations of legionellosis, Pontiac Fever (PF) and Legionnaires’ Disease (LD), are reportable through the Michigan Disease Surveillance System (MDSS), a web-based electronic database. Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 is… read more -
Evaluation of Case Detection of Marijuana-Related Emergency Department Visits
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NSSP, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surveillance system, allows timely detection of emergency department (ED) trends by matching chief complaint (CC) text or diagnosis (DX) codes to established syndrome criteria [1, 2]. No CDC… read more -
Equine Syndromic Surveillance in Colorado Using Veterinary Laboratory Test Order Data
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The Risk Identification Unit (RIU) of the US Dept. of Agriculture’s Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health (CEAH) conducts weekly surveillance of national livestock health data and routine coordination with agricultural stakeholders. In an… read more -
Evaluating Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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While results from syndromic surveillance systems are commonly presented in the literature, few systems appear to have been thoroughly evaluated to examine which events can and cannot be detected, the time to detection and the efficacy of different… read more -
Evaluating the BioSense Syndrome for Heat-Related Illness in Maricopa County, Arizona
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Monitoring heat-related illness (HRI) is a public health priority in Maricopa County, Arizona. Since 2006, Maricopa County Department of Public Health has utilized data from hospital discharges, medical examiner preliminary reports, and death… read more -
Using Mobile Technology to Facilitate Reactive Case Detection of Malaria
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Zanzibar is comprised primarily of two large islands with a population of 1.3 million. Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) campaigns, distribution of long-lasting insecticide treated bed nets (LLINs), and use of Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) have reduced… read more