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Utilizing the 'Crowd Trial' for Pharmacovigilance: a case report
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Singulair (MONTELUKAST SODIUM) is a Leukotriene receptor antagonist, indicated to prevent asthma attacks in adults and children. It is also used to relieve allergies in adults and children. Singulair was approved by the FDA in February 20, 1998. In… read more… greatly all public health environment. *Limor Bar-Hai E-mail: limor@firstliferesearch.com (page number not for … -
Leveraging the 'Wisdom of the Crowd' as a BioSurveillance tool
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With the proliferation of social networks, the web has become a warehouse of patient discussions and reports, estimated at 10 billion records and growing at a rate of 40 percent per year. First Life Research, Ltd. (FLR), has searched and… read more… Head of medical informatics at First Life Research Ltd E-mail: limor@firstliferesearch.com Fig. 1. Pregnancy-related … -
Improving syndromic surveillance for non-power users: NC DETECT dashboards
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NC DETECT provides near-real-time statewide surveillance capacity to local, regional and state level users across NC with twice daily data feeds from 117 (99%) emergency departments (EDs), hourly updates from the statewide poison center, and daily… read more… J. 2011;4:s111. doi: 10.3134/ehtj.10.111. *Amy Ising E-mail: ising@ad.unc.edu (page number not for citation … -
Web Search Query Data to Monitor Dengue Epidemics: a New Model for Dengue Surveillance
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With an estimated 500 million people infected each year, dengue ranks as one of the most significant mosquito-borne viral human diseases, and one of the most rapidly emerging vectorborne diseases. A variety of obstacles including bureaucracy and… read more… the present with Google trends; 2009. *John Brownstein E-mail: john.brownstein@childrens.harvard.edu (page number not … -
Mapping the uncertainty of non-contagious disease clusters boundaries in Brazil
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The intrinsic variability that exists in the cases counting data for aggregated-area maps amounts to a corresponding uncertainty in the delineation of the most likely cluster found by methods based on the spatial scan statistics [3]. If this cluster… read more… Statist Theor Meth. 1997;26:1481�96. *Sabino Ferreira E-mail: sabino@est.ufmg.br (page number not for citation … -
Game-Theoretic Surveillance Approaches for Hospital-Associated Infections
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Disease screening facilitates the reduction of disease prevalence in two ways: (1) by preventing transmission and (2) allowing for treatment of infected individuals. Hospitals choosing an optimal screening level must weigh the benefits of decreased… read more… diseases. Math Biosci. 2007;209:386�402. *Aaron Miller E-mail: aaron-miller@uiowa.edu (page number not for citation … -
Science and Technology Enabling Integrative Global Biosurveillance
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Life science and biotechnology advances have provided transforming capabilities that could be leveraged for integrative global biosurveillance. Global infectious disease surveillance holds great promise as a tool to mitigate the endemic and pandemic… read more… dation; information science and technology *Helen Cui E-mail: hhcui@lanl.gov (page number not for citation purpose) … -
Surveillance of Laboratory-confirmed Influenza Hospitalizations Using a Health Information Exchange
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During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) temporarily made lab-confirmed influenza hospitalizations reportable. Reporting of influenza hospitalizations is resource intensive for hospitals and local… read more… Health Services for their contributions. *Natasha Close E-mail: natasha.close@doh.wa.gov (page number not for citation …