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Using R Shiny to Share Surveillance Data
Content Type: Webinar
Presented November 21, 2017. This presentation covers how the shiny package can complement traditional surveillance reporting through online, interactive applications. Kelley demonstrates a shiny application Cook County is currently… read more… from several data sources, including: Emergency room visits % of ED visits for ILI Sentinel laboratories % of specimens … -
The Utility of Biosurveillance for Public Health Practice: The Findings from Two Case Studies
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States and localities are using biosurveillance for a variety purposes including event detection, situational awareness, and response. However, little is known about the impact of biosurveillance on the operational components… read more… and Tarrant County, Texas Advance Practice Center. Site visits were conducted to each of these cases in July, 2007 … -
Digital Epidemiology: designing machine learning approaches to combine Internet-based data sources to monitor and forecast disease activity in multiple locations and spatial resolutions
Content Type: Webinar
Presented May 24, 2018. Mauricio Santillana, MS, PhD describes machine learning methodologies that leverage Internet-based information from search engines, twitter microblogs, crowd-sourced disease surveillance systems, electronic… read more… ILI Reported NYC-ED Predicted ILI using Twitter Daily ILI visits (as reported by the NYC emergency department) … predictions Can we predict daily emergency department visits in a hospital? Daily Visits 2009-2015 In … -
A Temporal Change-Point Framework for Syndromic Surveillance in an Academic Environment
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The H5N1 avian influenza virus is now considered endemic in poultry in some parts of the world and the continued exposure in humans suggests that the risk of the virus evolving into a more transmissible agent in humans − a step… read more… As this is ongo- ing research, we plan to collect patient visits with flu- like symptoms from the University Health … -
Stakeholder Perspectives of Biosurveillance: a Qualitative Analysis
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For more than a decade, biosurveillance systems (and more recently BioSense) have been employed in the United States. Efforts to drastically expand these surveillance capacities have been a national priority given concerns … read more… response in these communities. Results Site visits to NYC, Boston, and Baltimore were conducted over 2 … -
Multiple Data Sources and Reverse Engineering Could Improve Sensitivity of Surveillance Algorithms
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Clinicians can pursue the clinical findings for specific patients until reaching a diagnosis in real time. When using electronic ED complaints, one relies on symptoms volunteered by patients in the triage setting. Patients seek emergency… read more… tests performed for years 2000-2004. RESULTS Over 500,000 visits were available for analysis. Definition #1.) showed … -
Automated Syndromic Surveillance System in Los Angeles County
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The Los Angeles County (LAC) Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Unit has made significant progress in automating the syndromic surveillance system. The surveillance system receives electronic data on a daily basis from different hospital… read more… countywide coverage is approximately 30% of total ED visits. The system automatically runs once per day, … -
Mixture Likelihood Ratio Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak Detection
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This article describes the methodology and results of Team #134Ãs submission to the 2007 ISDS Technical Contest.… injected into three data sources (emergency department visits (ED), over-the-counter anti-diarrheal and …