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Methodology for prediction of outbreaks of diseases of military importance
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Traditional public health practice has relied on public health surveillance of disease to detect outbreaks in an effort to mitigate their effects. Often the earlier an outbreak is detected, the greater the mitigation of its effects. The logical… read more… validation is of paramount importance as health officials may be unlikely to spend resources on mitigation efforts … -
Assessing address data quality for public health surveillance in Montreal
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In Montreal, notifiable diseases are reported to the Public Health Department (PHD). Of 44, 250 disease notifications received in 2009, up to 25% had potential address errors. These can be introduced during transcription, handwriting… read more… for Montreal residents reported to the PHD between 26 January and 9 May 2009 and followed by PH nurses were included (n!798). … -
Use of Laboratory Drug Sensitivity Tests and Prescription Practices in Malawi
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Of the 13 million people in Malawi1 85% are rural and the country has high burden of under-five morbidity and mortality due to preventable infectious diseases. Respiratory, febrile and diarrhea diseases are the top 3 morbidity and mortality… read more… on scientific proof. This is more cost effective and may lead to modification of treatment procedures as … Importance; 2003. *Rudia Lungu E-mail: rglungu@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS 2011 … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
Multi-Syndrome Analysis of Time Series: A New Concept for Outbreak Investigation
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Temporal anomaly detection is a key component of real time surveillance. Today, despite the abundance of temporal information on multiple syndromes, multivariate investigation of temporal anomalies remains under-explored. Traditionally, an outbreak… read more… abundance of temporal information on multiple syndromes, mul- tivariate investigation of temporal anomalies remains … -
A model for flu outbreak surveillance that describes the time lag for data reporting from the first presentation of a case to diagnosis
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Reporting notifiable conditions to public health authorities by health-care providers and laboratories is fundamental to the prevention, control, and monitoring of population-based disease. To successfully develop community… read more… 2424 Conclusions Although diagnosis data may not be required to identify a disease outbreak in the … of infectious diseases by clinicians. JAMA 1989;262:3018–26. 2 Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health … -
Analysis of Notifiable Diseases Detected by Syndromic Surveillance in Taiwan
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The paper outlined the major findings and statistical results of syndromic surveillance system in Taiwan since year 2000.… Among the reporting cases, around 7.7%, 36.5%, 29.6%and 26.2% reported as AHS, ARS, ANS and AJS. The table below … Yu-Tseng Chu, Jiunn-Shyan Wu, Mei-Lien Pan, Hui-Chih Yu, Muh-Yung Yen, Wen- Rong Su, Hsiou-Wen Lu, Chi-Ming Kevin … -
Distributing Countermeasures for All Hazards Events and Reporting their Utilizations
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Description: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works to save lives and protect people during major public health events. In an effort to support these processes, CDC established the Countermeasure Tracking Systems (CTS), which is… read more… Michele Renshaw1, Sanjeeb Sapkota1*, Stephanie Dulin1, Guy Faler2, Benjamin Erickson1, Sarah Waite3, Leslie Han3, … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
Standardization to aid interoperability between NLP system
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There are a number of Natural Language Processing (NLP) annotation and Information Extraction (IE) systems and platforms that have been successfully used within the medical domain. Although these groups share components of their systems, there… read more… IN, USA; and 11NLM, Bethesda, MD, USA E-mail: guy.divita@hsc.utah.edu Objective The Consortium for …