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Newborns with Delayed Hearing Screening Prior to Hospital Discharge: High Risk Populations of Hearing Loss
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Hearing loss is the most common birth defect, occurring at a rate of 1-3 of every 1000 births. The goal of the Louisiana Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program (LA EHDI) is to ensure that all newborns are screened for hearing loss so that… read more -
Non-Parametric Scan Statistics for Disease Outbreak Detection on Twitter
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Disease outbreak detection based on traditional surveillance datasets, such as disease cases reported from hospitals, is potentially limited in that the collection of clinic information is costly and time consuming. However, social media provides… read more -
Notifications of Public Health Events under the International Health Regulations _ 5 Year U.S. Experience
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All WHO member states are signatories of the IHR (1) to improve global health security. Objectives are to improve countries' capacities to detect, notify and respond to PHEICs. Rapid and transparent information sharing are critical for global… read more -
Novel and Nontraditional Data Streams: Where Do They Fit into Biosurveillance Action?
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Public health surveillance relies on multiple systems and methodologies for data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Each component provides only part of the picture, such as detection of possible outbreaks or events of concern; geographic… read more -
2004 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference Abstracts
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Public health surveillance continues to broaden in scope and intensity. Public health professionals responsible for conducting such surveillance must keep pace with evolving methodologies, models, business rules, policies, roles, and procedures. The… read more -
A spatial accuracy assessment of a Bayesian Bernoulli Spatial Scan Statistic
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With the increase in GPS enabled devices, pin-point spatial data is an obvious future growth area for cluster detection research. The FBSSS handles binary labelled point data, but requires Monte Carlo testing to obtain inference [1]. In the Bayesian… read more -
Analysis of Dengue in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Patients in Puerto Rico
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The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the VA organization responsible for providing healthcare to over 5 million patients annually at 153 medical centers and over 900 outpatient clinics across the United States and U.S. territories. The VA… read more -
Decrease Epidemiological Threats with Environmental Controls and Testing
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The Decrease Epidemiological Threats with Environmental Controls and Testing (DETECT) program consisted of a four month initiative to provide a two-day in-depth training modified from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) Epi-Ready… read more