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Tracking H1N1 vaccine doses administered using CRA system
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The novel strain of H1N1 Influenza A virus, which first caused localized outbreaks in parts of Mexico, was declared a pandemic in June 2009. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Countermeasure and Response… read more… Contractor from McKing Consulting, Fairfax, VA, USA E-mail: ssapkota@cdc.gov Objective The objective of this paper … -
User requirements for a user-centered design (UCD) redesign of a public health surveillance system: BioSense
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the BioSense program in 2003 to establish an integrated system of nationwide public health surveillance for the early detection and assessment of potential bioterrorism-related… read more… RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA E-mail: rsembajwe@rti.org Objective The objective of this … -
Virtual public health informatics training: development and delivery of an online public health informatics course
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Public health informatics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that uses information technology and informatics methods to meet public health goals. To achieve these goals, education and training of a new generation of public health informaticians… read more… CJ Staes University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: yuling.jiang@utah.edu Objective This poster describes … -
A spatio-temporal absorbing state model for disease and syndromic surveillance
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The goal of disease and syndromic surveillance is to monitor and detect aberrations in disease prevalence across space and time. Disease surveillance typically refers to the monitoring of confirmed cases of disease, whereas syndromic… read more… Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA E-mail: matt@stat.duke.edu Objective Syndromic surveillance … -
Implementation of a New Syndromic Surveillance System in April 2006 in French Guiana
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An outbreak of dengue fever has occured in French Guiana since the end of November 2005 until July 2006. The dengue serotype circulating was DEN-2, responsible of more than 2 000 confirmed cases and 4 deaths. The previous… read more… physicians involved and weekly collected by telephone, mail or fax in the cen- ter of control in Cayenne. Those … -
Does Climate Predict the Timing of Peak Influenza Activity in the United States?
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Though spatio-temporal patterns of influenza spread have often suggested that environmental factors, such as temperature, solar radiation and humidity play a key role, few studies have directly assessed their effect on the timing… read more… in the United States using pediatric hospitalization visits with ICD-9 codes equal to 486.00, 487.00, 487.10 or … -
Performances of a Syndromic Surveillance System during a Heat Wave
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The 2003 heat wave in France (15,000 extra deaths in 10 days) led the French institute for public health surveillance to modify its public health surveillance system. One of the major objectives of this program was a real time… read more… (4). RESULTS Fifteen hospitals were selected and 118,119 visits were recorded during the 3 months. Sensitivity and … -
Preliminary Findings from the BioSense Evaluation Project
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In October 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded four institutions, including Emory University, to conduct evaluations of the BioSense surveillance system. These evaluations include investigations of situations… read more… or locally initiated syndromic surveil- lance for ED visits or 911 calls, sentinel surveillance, ad hoc active …