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  • Detecting Coherent Structures in Syndromic Time Series Using Wavelets

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    Temporally localized outbreaks occur in the presence of a complex background, greatly complicating both retrospective and real-time detection. Numerous techniques have been proposed for adjusting thresholds to account for this variable background.… read more
    … many other popular syndromic surveillance approaches to back- ground modeling. The energy in temporally local- ized …
  • Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System (EIDSS)

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    The Threat Agent Detection and (TADR) Network currently supports the U.S. Government’s (USG) strategy for strengthening Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) compliance through focus on disease surveillance and investigations of … read more
    … cryption, low bandwidth requirements and communi- cations back-up technology allows the use of inex- pensive land or …
  • North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System

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    NC BEIPS is a system designed and developed by the NC Division of Public Health (DPH) for early detection of disease and bioterrorism outbreaks or events. It analyzes emergency department (ED) data on a daily basis from 33 (29%) EDs in North… read more
    … duplicates and performing updates, but cannot be traced back to the original numbers. The SSL-encrypted portal is …
  • Argus: A Global Detection and Tracking System for Biological Events

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    Objective. This paper describes Project Argus, a novel foreign biological event detection and tracking system.
    … and assessing a rapidly spreading epidemic, including the lack of a proper public health infrastructure in the country …
  • Beyond Traditional Surveillance: Applying Syndromic Surveillance to Developing Settings- Opportunities and Challenges

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    The revised International Health Regulations (IHR) have expanded traditional infectious disease notification to include surveillance diseases of international importance, including emerging infectious diseases.  However, there are no clearly… read more
    … disease outbreaks in developing countries, most of whom lack access to a resource- rich public health infrastructure …
  • Identifying Fractures in BioSense Radiology Reports

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    The purposes of this study are to validate a keyword-based text parsing algorithm for identifying fractures and compare radiology results with chief complaint and ICD-9 final diagnoses.
    … like “absence,” “fails to reveal,” “negative,” “healed,” “lack of” etc. to eliminate readings indicating no fracture; …
  • Short Term Effects of Meteorological Parameters to Respiratory Infections with Fever

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    It has been noted since the era of Hippocrates that weather conditions at a specific location can influence the incidence of various infectious and noninfectious diseases. It has also been implied that variations in weather conditions… read more
    … Epstein PR, Gubler D, Maynard N, McMichael AJ, Patz JA, Sack RB, Shope R. Climate change and human health. Science …
  • A Comparison of Locally Developed Influenza-like Syndrome Definitions Using Electronic Emergency Department Data in Boston and New York City

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    To compare locally-developed influenza-like syndrome definitions (derived from emergency department (ED) chief complaints) when applied to data from two ISDS DiSTRIBuTE Project participants: Boston and New York City (NYC) [1].
    … jurisdictions. The primary limitations of the study were lack of geographic, demographic and analytic diversity among …