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Optimal sequential management decisions for measles outbreaks
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Optimal sequential management of disease outbreaks has been shown to dramatically improve the realized outbreak costs when the number of newly infected and recovered individuals is assumed to be known (1,2). This assumption has been relaxed so that… read more… RR, Himmelspach J, White KP, Fu M, eds. *Jarad Niemi E-mail: niemi@iastate.edu (page number not for citation … -
Real-time Adaptive Monitoring of Vital Signs for Clinical Alarm Preemption
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Cardiovascular event prediction has long been of interest in the practice of intensive care. It has been approached using signal-processing of vital signs [1-4], including the use of graphical models [3,4]. Our approach is novel in making data… read more… tabase.html. *Madalina Fiterau E-mail: mfiterau@cs.cmu.edu (page number not for citation … -
Mining Intensive Care Vitals for Leading Indicators of Adverse Health Events
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The status of each Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patient is routinely monitored and a number of vital signs are recorded at sub-second frequencies which results in large amounts of data. We propose an approach to transform this stream of raw vital… read more… and case studies. Taylor & Francis; 2010. *Rajas Lonkar E-mail: rlonkar@andrew.cmu.edu (page number not for citation … -
An Evaluation of Electronic Laboratory Data Quality and a Health Information Exchange
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Electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) was demonstrated just over a decade ago to be an effective method to improve the timeliness of reporting as well as the number of reports submitted to public health agencies. The quality of data (inc.… read more… Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons; 2007. *Brian Dixon E-mail: bdixon@regenstrief.org (page number not for citation … -
Applications of the ESSENCE Desktop Edition for Outbreak Detection in a Resource-Limited Setting
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Recent events have focused on the role of emerging and re-emerging diseases not only as a significant public health threat but also as a serious threat to the economy and security of nations. The lead time to detect and contain a novel emerging… read more… diseases. Nature. 2004;430:242�9. *John Mark Velasco E-mail: VelascoJM@afrims.org (page number not for citation … -
Hierarchical Filtering of ESSENCE for Routine, Distributed Disease Monitoring by the Veterans Health Administration
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The VA has employed ESSENCE for health monitoring since 2006 [1]. Epidemiologists at the Office of Public Health (OPH) monitor the VA population at the national level. The system is also intended for facility-level monitoring to cover 152 medical… read more… Health Association, November 2009. *Howard Burkom E-mail: howard.burkom@jhuapl.edu (page number not for citation … -
Detecting Previously Unseen Outbreaks with Novel Symptom Patterns
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Commonly used syndromic surveillance methods based on the spatial scan statistic first classify disease cases into broad, pre-existing symptom categories ("prodromes") such as respiratory or fever, then detect spatial clusters where the recent… read more… J Mach Learn Res. 2003;3:993�1022. *Daniel B. Neill E-mail: neill@cs.cmu.edu (page number not for citation … -
Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to the 2011 E. coli Outbreak in Germany
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Argus is an event-based, multi-lingual surveillance system which captures and analyzes information from publicly available Internet media. Argus produces reports that summarize and contextualize indications and warning (I&W) of emerging… read more… 5. www.expatica.com. 6. www.rki.de. *Emily Iarocci E-mail: iarocci@isis.georgetown.edu (page number not for …