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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].… from other diverse jurisdictions. REFERENCES [1] http://www.syndromic.org/projects/DiSTRIBuTE.htm [2] Olson, … -
A County Health Department's Analysis and Dissemination Algorithm of a Neruological Syndrome Aberration to Respective Community Stakeholders
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The purpose of this study is to depict a local county health departmentÃs analysis and dissemination algorithm of surveillance system (SS) aberration (alarm) to designated stakeholders within the community.… 46-50. Retrieved July 03, 2008 from the World Wide Web: www.emro.who.int/Publications/Emhj/0201/06.htm [2] Teutsch … -
Impact of including physician’s prescribing directions on calculations of medication possession ratios
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Medication adherence studies typically use pharmacy-dispensing data to infer drug exposures. These studies often require calculations reflecting the intensity and duration of drug exposure. The typical approach to estimating duration of drug… read more… Hayden et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 2727 … -
Maryland ESSENCE expansion to incorporate prescription medication data
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Maryland has a powerful syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE, which is used for the early detection of disease outbreaks, suspicious patterns of illness, and public health emergencies. ESSENCE incorporates traditional and nontraditional health… read more… S Aslam et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 6 … -
Visualizing and Monitoring Data in BioSense Using SaTScan
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BioSense data includes Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs ambulatory care diagnoses and procedures, as well as Laboratory Corporation of America lab test orders. Data are mapped to eleven syndrome categories. SaTScan is a spatio-temporal… read more… Bioterrorism-Associated Agents. Accessed at: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/syndromedef/index.asp [2] … -
Detecting Web Rumours with a Multilingual Ontology-Supported Text Classification System
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Timely surveillance of disease outbreak events of public health concern currently requires detailed and time consuming manual analysis by experts. Recently in addition to traditional information sources, the World Wide Web … read more… Global Public Heath Intelligence Network (GPHIN). http://www.gphin.org [2] Damianos, L., Ponte, J., Wohlever, S., et … -
Early Identification of Salmonella Cases Using Syndromic Surveillance
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On June 7, 2008, federal food protection and public health agencies alerted consumers of a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul infections. As of June 30, 2008, 851 persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same… read more… 1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/ Further Information: Heather Brown … -
Empirical/Asymptotic P-Values for Monte Carlo-Based Hypothesis Testing: An Application to Cluster Detection Using the Scan Statistic
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SaTScan is a freely available software that uses the scan statistic to detect clusters in space, time or space-time. SaTScan uses Monte Carlo hypothesis testing in order to produce a p-value for the null hypothesis that no… read more… for the spatial and space-time scan statistics. 2004, www.satscan.org. [2] Kulldorff, M, A spatial scan statistic. …