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Syndromic Surveillance and Heat Wave: Is it Working?
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Most of the time, health consequences of heat waves are serious. Heat wave response plans were developed for reducing health effects but even if they are very efficient it is not possible to eliminate all health consequences.… read more… through the Internet. Items collected for each patient visit included the diagnosis code according to ICD10, … -
Benchmark Data Generation from Discrete Event Contact Network Models
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Historical data are essential for development of detection algorithms. Spatio-temporal data, however, are difficult to come by due to variety of issues concerning patient confidentiality. Several approaches have been used to … read more… of spatio-temporal data corresponding to the time of visit and patient location (census tracts) when symptomatic … -
Integration of Hospital Admissions, Febrile Respiratory Illness Screening and Triage Acuity Score into an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System
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This paper outlines the integration of hospital admission, Febrile Respiratory Illness (FRI) screening and Canadian Triage and Acuity Score (CTAS) data streams within an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance system. These data elements allow… read more… postal code of resi- dence, hospital and date and time of visit. DATA ELEMENTS Admission data – The physician’s … -
Modifications to Spatial Scan Statistics for Estimated Probabilities at Fine-Resolution in Highly Skewed Spatial Distributions
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Estimation of representative spatial probabilities and expected counts from baseline data can cause problems in applying spatial scan statistics when observed events are sparse in a large percentage of the spatial zones (e.g.,… read more… the cho- sen syndrome groups from the Texas DoD clinic visit counts at the residence-zip code and home-zip code … -
Public health surveillance after the Haiti earthquake: the Florida experience
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On 12 January 2010 at 1652 hours local time, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and created enormous devastation. Florida, as the state closest to Haiti, became an initial focal point… read more… either ‘Haiti’ or ‘earthquake’, along with the reason for visit, into appropriate syndrome categories. The intent of … -
Using cross-correlation networks to identify and visualize patterns in disease transmission
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Syndromic surveillance data such as the incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) is broadly monitored to provide awareness of respiratory disease epidemiology. Diverse algorithms have been employed to find geospatial trends in … read more… weak transmission (region nine) of ILI cases in hospital visit data. Other observations from the network are … -
Using cross-correlation networks to identify and visualize patterns in disease transmission
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Syndromic surveillance data such as the incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) is broadly monitored to provide awareness of respiratory disease epidemiology. Diverse algorithms have been employed to find geospatial trends in surveillance data,… read more… weak transmission (region nine) of ILI cases in hospital visit data. Other observations from the network are … -
Relationship between neighborhood poverty and emergency department utilization for fever/flu syndrome
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The HEDSS system was implemented in 2004 to monitor disease activity.1 In all, 18 of 32 emergency departments (ED) and urgent care clinic provide data. Chief complaints are routinely categorized into eight syndromes. The fever/flu syndrome is… read more… higher-poverty neighborhoods seem to be more likely to visit the ED for fever/flu syndrome. Acknowledgements This …