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  • Relationship between Emergency Room (ER) Syndromic Surveillance Data and Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) Surveillance in Houston, Texas

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    Disease surveillance provides essential information for control and response planning1. Emergency Room (ER) syndromic surveillance data can help to identify changes in disease incidence and affected group thereby providing valuable additional time… read more
    … data showed no significant correlations (P>0.05). The ER visits in Houston significantly (P<0.01) predicted the … of relationship noted in this study demonstrates that ER visits can be used for early prediction of influenza …
  • Monitoring and auditing the transfer of syndromic surveillance data to ensure data completeness

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    The electronic surveillance system for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by DHMH. ESSENCE utilizes a secure, automated process for the transfer of data to the… read more
    … recorded in the data tracking application. An automated e-mail is generated that details which data sources are absent. This e-mail is sent to the OIT employees involved in the ESSENCE … Keywords Data; transfer; audit; ESSENCE *Zachary Faigen E-mail: zfaigen@dhmh.state.md.us (page number not for citation …
  • Argus: A Global Detection and Tracking System for Biological Events

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    Objective. This paper describes Project Argus, a novel foreign biological event detection and tracking system.
    … [accessed 2005 May 23]. 3. Woodall J, Calisher CH. ProMED-mail: background and purpose. Emerg Infect Dis. 2001;7(3 … diseases: lessons from the first 10 years of ProMED- mail. Arch Med Res. 2005 Nov- Dec;36(6):724-30. Advances in …
  • Sample size and spatial cluster detection power

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    Prior work demonstrates the extent to which sampling strategies reduce the power to detect clusters.1 Additionally, the power to detect clusters can vary across space.2 A third, unexplored, effect is how much the sample size impacts the power of… read more
    … West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA E-mail: Jamison.Conley@mail.wvu.edu Objective In syndromic surveillance settings, …
  • Automated Data Acquisition: Data Collection and Integration for the Alberta Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance Net (ARTSSN)

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    The ability to provide real time syndromic surveillance throughout the Capital Health Region is currently undeveloped. There are limited mechanisms for routine real time surveillance of disease or conditions of public health… read more
    … concerns– 130 selected protocols • Emergency Departments visits chief com- plaints, discharge diagnosis and relevant … results with 130 proto- cols: • 1,800,000 emergency room visits • Absenteeism records of K-6 students, track- ing on …
  • Missouri's Syndromic Surveillance Experience

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    This abstract describes Missouriís experience with syndromic surveillance. Missouri has expanded from acquiring pre-tabulated data from volunteers to receiving patient-level data via electronic feeds from 85 hospitals across the state processed… read more
    … of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) numbers of visits within predefined syndrome groups and the total number of visits. Many sites that initially volunteered to report HASS …
  • Characterizing Repeated Outbreak Patterns in Influenza Time Series

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    In some influenza seasons, morbidity and mortality closely follow the expected seasonal variation. In these years, approaches such as Serflingís model and seasonal-based syndromic outbreak detectors, in use in EARS, work well. In other years,… read more
    … data sets, including hospital emer- gency department visits coded for respiratory infec- tion and ambulatory care visits coded for several syndromes. In those cases, Poisson …
  • Utilization of the Syndromic Surveillance Framework for Detection of Heat-Related illnesses

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    The use of syndromic surveillance in Tulsa County began as an attempt to identify symptoms associated with Category A agents, namely Anthrax. The underlying premise for adopting the system was the hope that an astute clinician,… read more
    … summer months often result in increased emergency room visits with heat-related complaints such as dehydration, … cramps and loss of consciousness. Outcomes for these visits range from mild therapies to hospitalization for more …