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  • Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance and Population-Based Health Monitoring in Los Angeles County

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    The Bioterrorism Surveillance Unit of the Los Angeles County (LAC) Department of Public Health, Acute Communicable Disease Control (ACDC) program analyzes Emergency Department (ED) data daily. Currently capturing over 40% of the ED… read more
    … in the LAC metro area obtained from the weather.com website. Regarding surveillance for morbidity related to … Information: Emily Kajita, ekajita@ph.lacounty.gov http://www.lapublichealth.org/acd/ Advances in Disease Surveillance …
  • Automated Detection of Tuberculosis Using Electronic Medical Record Data

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    Approximately one quarter of people treated for tuberculosis (TB) have no supporting microbiology, and thus are not detectable through laboratory reporting systems. Health departments depend upon clinicians to report these… read more
    … with a combined positive predictive value of 82%. By com- parison, the most sensitive single algorithm (any ICD9 … Control. “Sum- mary Statistics For The Year 2005.” http://www.mass.gov/dph/cdc/tb/tb_summarydata.rtf [2] Yokoe et al. …
  • Relationship between Clinical Screening Tools, Syndromic Surveillance, and Influenza-Positive Patients

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    In 2003, with the advent of SARS, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) released a document mandating the use of a clinical screening tool to detect patients at high risk for having a febrile respiratory illness (FRI), defined… read more
    … Committee, Triage in Ontario. 2005; Available at: http://www.oha.com/client/OHA/OHA_LP4W_LND_WebStatio …
  • Comparison of Influenza-like Illness Syndrome Classification Between Two Syndromic Surveillance Systems

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    In 2004, the BioDefend (BD) syndromic surveillance (SS) system was implemented in Duval County hospitals (Jacksonville, FL). Daily emergency department chief complaints are manually classified and entered into the BD system by… read more
    … The timing of statistical alerts between the systems was com- pared in relation to when sentinel influenza re- … BioDefend Surveillance Booklet. Available at: <http://www.bt.usf.edu/files/SurveillancePacket%20Draft.pd f>. …
  • The Snow Agent System: A Peer-to-Peer System for Disease Surveillance and Diagnostic Assistance

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    In the Northern part of Norway, all general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals use electronic health record systems. They are all connected via an independent secure IP-network called the Norwegian Health Network which enables … read more
    … Norway. This paper briefly describes the architecture and com- ponents of the system and the motivation for using this … 3920. 2004 [Accessed 11.04.2004]; Available from: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3920.txt [4] Turoff M. On site: Past and …
  • Identifying Current Practical Analytic Challenges - the Analytic Solutions Committee

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented September 21, 2017. The purpose of this webinar is to introduce the Analytic Solution Committees (ASC) to ISDS members, explaining how the committee works and how it… read more
    … Agenda for Syndromic Surveillance http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0033354917709784 Add research priority … name: Jurisdiction or affiliation: Phone: Email: Co-submitters and affiliations: PROBLEM DESCRIPTION …
  • BioSense 2.0 Webinar: Using Surveillance to Prepare and Respond to Winter Weather: Extreme Cold, Ice, and Snow

    Content Type: Webinar

    For much of the United States, 2014 began with extreme cold and large snowstorms. As a result, surveillance practitioners around the country have been working to identify, gather, and analyze cold weather-related data. This presentation will focus… read more
    …     Slides  and  recording:       Available  at:  http://www.syndromic.org/component/content/article/37/723         …     Syndromes:  Cold  (frostbite/hypothermia),  falls,  CO   exposure   https://biosen.se Public Health Surveillance … BioSense Weather  Underground:  http://www.wunderground.com/   https://biosen.se Public Health Surveillance Through …
  • Some Interactive Data Exploration Tools for Syndromic Surveillance

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    This paper describes several interactive data exploration tools for examining surveillance data.
    … Web Consortium. Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG). http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ [2] NPD group. Macromedia Flash and … Players. Online survey, conducted April 2006. http://www.adobe.com/ products/player_census/npd/ Further Information: Ian …