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  • Characterizing Socioeconomic Disparities in the Burden of Influenza and RSV Using Surveillance Data

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    To measure the impact, within administrative geographic areas, of household income on rates of visits due influenza and RSV among children using real-time syndromic surveillance.
    … geographic areas, of household income on rates of visits due influenza and RSV among children using real-time … geo- graphic areas, of household income on rates of visits due influenza and RSV among children using real- time … tion chief complaint data from emergency department visits at Miami Children’s Hospital in Miami, FL. We …
  • Norovirus disease surveillance using Google search data

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    While norovirus is the leading cause of gastroenteritis in the United States, leading to an estimated 21 million illnesses per year [1], timely surveillance data are limited. Google Insights for Search (GIfS) is a new application that allows users… read more
    … *Rishi Desai E-mail: butterfinger81@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) …
  • Performance of a Syndromic Surveillance System for Detecting Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Following a Severe Windstorm

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    On December 14th, 2006, a severe windstorm in western Washington caused hundreds of thousands of residents to lose power. On December 15, 2006, there was a surge in emergency department (ED) visits for patients presenting with signs… read more
    … 15, 2006, there was a surge in emergency department (ED) visits for patients presenting with signs of acute carbon … the performance of our ED syndromic data for detecting visits associated with CO poisoning. Document … emergency de- partment (ED) syndromic data for detecting visits associated with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. …
  • Age Specific Correlations between Influenza Laboratory Data and Influenza-like Syndrome Definitions in Boston and New York City

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    To compare age-group-specific correlation of influenza-like syndrome (ILS) emergency department (ED) visits with influenza laboratory data in Boston and NYC using locally defined ILS definitions.
    … influenza-like syndrome (ILS) emergency department (ED) visits with influenza laboratory data in Boston and NYC … influenza-like syndrome (ILS) emergency department (ED) visits with influenza laboratory data in Boston and NYC … laboratories. Weekly proportions of broad and narrow ED visits from Oct 2, 2005 – May 17, 2008 were calculated for …
  • Ontario's Telehealth: A Novel Snydromic Surveillance System

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    The Ontario Telehealth Telephone Helpline (henceforth referred to as “Telehealth”) was implemented in Ontario in 2001. It is administered by Clinidata, a private contractor hired by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care,… read more
    … Further Information: Elizabeth Rolland, erolland@gmail.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:190 …
  • Event Communication in a Regional Disease Surveillance System

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    Versatile, user-friendly visualization tools are required to organize the wealth of information available to users of large, regional surveillance systems into a coherent view of population health status. Communications … read more
    … communica- tions and improve situational awareness during un- usual health events. Data collected on system usage …
  • Syndromic Surveillance for Detection of Increased Morbidity and Mortality by Influenza

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    To evaluate whether a rise or shift in severe morbidity and mortality by influenza can be detected with syndromic surveillance.
    … 1-Jan-2003 1-Jan-2004 R es pi ra to ry sy nd ro m e co un ts Figure 1 – Hospitalizations: Weekly counts of the …
  • Syndromic Surveillance with Death Data: a Pilot Study in the Netherlands

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    Crude mortality could be valuable for infectious disease surveillance if available in a complete and timely fashion. Such data can be of used for detecting, and tracking the impact of unusual health events (e.g. pandemic… read more
    … events (e.g. pandemic influenza) or other unexpected or un- known events of infectious nature. To evaluate whether …