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  • Surveillance of poison center data using the National Poison Data System web service

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    Oregon Health Authority (OHA), in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, recently implemented Oregon ESSENCE, an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance system. One way to strengthen syndromic surveillance… read more
    … FileMaker for managing notifiable conditions data (i.e., com- municable disease reporting); so, there were no new …
  • A Zero-Inflated Poisson Based Spatial Scan Statistic

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    The spatial scan statistic proposed by Kulldorff has been widely used in spatial disease surveillance and other spatial cluster detection applications. In one of its versions, such scan statistic was developed for inhomogeneous Poisson process… read more
    … 1992;34:1�14. *André Cançado E-mail: cancado@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. Example …
  • Changes in the Spatial Distribution of Syphilis

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    Public health officials and epidemiologists have been attempting to eradicate syphilis for decades, but national incidence rates are again on the rise. It has been suggested that the syphilis epidemic in the US is a "rare example of unforced,… read more
    … *Sean Tolentino E-mail: seanluciotolentino@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. Syphilis …
  • Impact of training on Disease Surveillance and Notification Officers in Nigeria

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    Public health surveillance (also called field epidemiology) as defined by Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the ongoing systematic, collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome specific data essential to the planning ,… read more
    … September 2005. *Olawunmi Adeoye E-mail: wunmiolat@yahoo.com (page number not for citation purpose) Table 1. Results …
  • Evaluation of a post earthquake internally displaced persons surveillance system (IDPSS) - Haiti, 2010

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    On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, killing 4230 000 persons and placing an estimated 1.5 million into internally displaced persons (IDP) camps. IDPs are at increased risk for communicable diseases resulting… read more
    … acceptability, and timeliness by providing a common con- duit for surveillance communication. Future … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 41 systems should take advantage of the … Health Threats Journal A Sprecher et al. 2011, 4:s54 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 42 …
  • Using clinician mental models to guide annotation of medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes found in VA clinical documents

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    Medically unexplained syndromes (MUS) are conditions that are diagnosed on the basis of symptom constellations and are characterized by a lack of well-defined pathogenic pathways. The three most common MUS are chronic fatigue … read more
    … Language Processing system developed for automated symp- tom extraction. Our overarching goal is to characterize the … South et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 64 unknown syndromes of interest to … Health Threats Journal BR South et al. 2011, 4:s115 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 65 …
  • A bootstrapping method to improve cohort identification

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    The research reported in this paper is part of a larger effort to achieve better signal-to-noise ratio, hence accuracy, in pharmacovigilance applications. The relatively low frequency of occurrence of adverse drug reactions leads to… read more
    … abnormal lipid panel tests and related medications (HMG-CoA reduc- tase inhibitors, intestinal cholesterol … Kandula et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 3131 with the bootstrapping algorithm … Health Threats Journal S Kandula et al. 2011, 4:s31 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 3232 …
  • Changes in Alcohol-Related Travel Behavior due to an Under 21 Ordinance

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    Alcohol abuse is one of the major leading causes of preventable mortality in the United States. Binge drinking or excessive alcohol consumption, categorized as a pattern of drinking that brings a person's blood alcohol concentration to 0.08, has… read more
    … to football Saturdays, where some 50,000 people come to Iowa City to tailgate and attend the Big10 football … 3. City of Iowa City. http://www.icgov.org/site/CMSv2/File/city- Council/under21FAQ.pdf. … http://www.icgov.org/site/CMSv2/File/cityCouncil/under21FAQ.pdf …