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Improvement of Epidemiology Business Processes through the Evolution of Biosurveillance
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In the last decade, the scope of public health (PH) surveillance has grown, and biosurveillance capacity has expanded in Duval County. In 2004, the Duval County Health Department (DCHD) implemented a standalone syndromic surveillance (SS) system… read more… ad hoc ED surveillance was compared between ESSENCE and e-mail/telephone methods. QI reviews were compared between … Emerg Health Threats J 2011;4(Suppl 1). *Taj Azarian E-mail: tajazari@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS 2011 … -
A review of automated text classification in event-based biosurveillance
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Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human, plant, and animal health. Online documents, such as news articles, newsletters, and (micro-) blog entries, are… read more… A H1N1 pandemic. PLoS One. 2011;6:e19467. *Manabu Torii E-mail: manabu.torii@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Table 1. … -
Establishment of Public-access Syndromic Surveillance System in Taipei City, Taiwan
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Taiwan had established a nation-wide emergency department (ED)-based syndromic surveillance system since 2004, with a mean detection sensitivity of 0.67 in 2004-06 [1]. However, this system may not represent the true epidemic situation of infectious… read more… BMC Public Health. 2011;11:252. *ChiaKun Chang E-mail: jasperc8@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. (a) … -
Evaluating Syndrome Definitions in the Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology
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The Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology (ESSO) is an open source terminological ontology designed to facilitate the text mining of clinical reports in English [1,2]. At the core of ESSO are 279 clinical concepts (for example, fever, confusion,… read more… J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2010;17:595�601. *Mike Conway E-mail: michaelambroseconway@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Table 1. … -
Scalable Detection of Irregular Disease Clusters Using Soft Compactness Constraints
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The spatial scan statistic [1] detects significant spatial clusters of disease by maximizing a likelihood ratio statistic F(S) over a large set of spatial regions, typically constrained by shape. The fast localized scan [2] enables scalable… read more… J R Stat Soc (Ser B). 2011;to appear. *Skyler Speakman E-mail: skylerspeakman@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. … -
A comparison of syndromic surveillance chief complaint data and discharge data in a pediatric hospital system during 2009 H1N1
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The Syndromic Surveillance Program (SSP) of the Acute Disease Epidemiology Section of the Georgia Division of Public Health, provides electronic influenza- like- illness (ILI) data to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention… read more… hospital system identified when the percentage of daily visits for ILI had substantively increased. The … chief complaint (CC) data from emergency department visits for two facilities at Facilities A and B. The data … report based upon emergency department visits, and including physician’s diagnosis at the time of … -
Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia** - Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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This syndrome was created as a way to monitor Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia in Kansas Emergency Department visits. **Please note that the hypothermia portion of this syndrome was created to ONLY include hypothermia associated with low… read more… Exposure, & Hypothermia in Kansas Emergency Department visits. **Please note that the hypothermia portion of this … System - NSSP ESSENCE Data sources - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of … Exposure, & Hypothermia in Kansas Emergency Department visits. **Please note that the hypothermia portion of this … -
Syndromic Surveillance for Localized Outbreaks of Lower-Respiratory Infections: Does it Work?
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To evaluate whether syndromic surveillance can detect localized outbreaks of lower-respiratory infections (LRI's) with limited numbers of alarms in time.… influ- enza and RSV activity, a registry artifact and/or un- detected local respiratory outbreaks (due to small size …