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A multidisciplinary approach to an outbreak of canid Rabies in Gauteng Province, South Africa
Content Type: Case Study
On 3rd of June, 2010 a sick dog was presented to an Animal Welfare Agency. Biliary treatment unsuccessful and the dog was euthanased and tested positive for Rabies on FAT. In this mixed rural urban area of South Africa Rabies is an occasional… read more… the laboratory result is obtained (if applicable). Good co-ordination is required. Geertsma Peter no Public View the … authority, provincial (DOH) health and PVS in June to co- ordinate a one-health response. Larger area vaccination … identified by this project/activity. The practical co-ordination of a one-health effort takes buy-in by all … -
Influenza surveillance using inpatient health information exchange data
Content Type: Abstract
During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) temporarily made lab-confirmed influenza hospitalizations and deaths reportable. As reporting influenza hospitalizations is resource intensive for hospitals,… read more… N Close et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 18 Of 305 WA-HIE influenza … source of hospitalization information. Despite a lack of com- plete overlap between records reported through PHIMS … Health Threats Journal N Close et al. 2011, 4:s70 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 19 … -
BioSense program redesign
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The BioSense program’s mission is to support and improve public health surveillance infrastructure and human capacity required to monitor (with minimal lag) critical population health indicators of the scope and severity of acute… read more… Redesign Collaboration Site (https://sites.google. com/site/biosenseredesign). Emerging Health Threats Journal … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 40 strengthen existing surveillance … Health Threats Journal TA Kass-Hout et al. 2011, 4:s87 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 41 … -
Predicting extreme asthma events in London using quantile regression models
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The burden of asthma is a major public health issue, and of a wider interest particularly to public health practitioners, health care providers and policy makers, as well as researchers. The literature on forecasting of adverse respiratory health… read more… Sciences, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia E-mail: soyiriin@yahoo.com Objective This paper describes a framework for creating … DD Reidpath.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 39 models, and again had lower error … Threats Journal IN Soyiri and DD Reidpath. 2011, 4:s162 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 40 … -
An Open Source Web Services Toolkit for Event Detection Algorithms
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As major disease outbreaks are rare, empirical evaluation of statistical methods for outbreak detection requires the use of modified or completely simulated health event data in addition to real data. Comparisons of different techniques will be more… read more… for out- break detection requires the use of modified or com- pletely simulated health event data in addition to real … of Bell Labs’ S language, which includes many of the com- ponents needed for anomaly detection and analysis, such … detection1 and verified them on test data (http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/ears /datasets.asp), and have … -
CDC Opioid v2
Content Type: Syndrome
THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC OPIOID V3 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE. States currently funded by… read more… not present. CDC identified several non-poisoning ICD-10-CM codes for inclusion in the syndrome definition (e.g., F11 … : CDC identified several non-poisoning ICD-10-CM codes for inclusion in the syndrome definition (e.g., F11 … Specific terms Inclusions Discharge Diagnosis – ICD-9-CM poisoning Yes 965.00, 965.01, 965.02, 965.09,E850.0, … -
Bayesian Methods for Syndromic Surveillance
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Syndromic surveillance needs to be (1) transparent, (2) actionable, and (3) flexible. Traditional frequentist approaches to syndromic surveillance, such as cusum charts and scan statistics, tend to fail on all three criteria. First, the validity of… read more… the prob- lems associated with alpha levels and multiple com- parisons, and make better use of prior information. The … Further Information: David Banks, banks@stat.duke.edu www.stat.duke.edu/~banks Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;2:41 mailto:banks@stat.duke.edu http://www.stat.duke.edu/%7Ebanks Bayesian Methods for Syndromic … -
A Bayesian Scan Statistic for Spatial Cluster Detection
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This paper develops a new Bayesian method for cluster detection, the ìBayesian spatial scan statistic,î and compares this method to the standard (frequen-tist) scan statistic approach on the task of prospective disease surveillance.… tant statistical tools for cluster detection, and is com- monly used in the public health community for detec- … Further Information: Daniel B. Neill, neill@cs.cmu.edu www.cs.cmu.edu/~neill and www.autonlab.org Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006;1:55 …