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  • Using Syndromic Surveillance Data for Enhanced Case-Capture of Conditions of Public Health Interest

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    Syndromic surveillance can be a useful tool for the early recognition of outbreaks and trends in emergency department (ED) data. In addition, as a more timely data source than traditional disease reporting, syndromic data may also be… read more
    … – April 5, 2007). Follow up to validate the diagnoses was con- ducted by requesting additional patient information … was available for 13 (36%) suspect cases. Of the 23 con- firmed meningitis cases, 1 (4.3%) was bacterial …
  • Ellipse-Based Clustering Analysis Using a Time Series Algorithm

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    Many cities in the US and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention have deployed biosurveillance systems to monitor regional health status. Biosurveillance systems rely on algorithms that analyze data in temporal domain… read more
    … Many cities in the US and the Center for Disease Con- trol and Prevention (CDC) have deployed biosurveil- … a “hot” zip code with elevated sales. The 5 ellipses con- tain hot zip codes in red, orange, yellow, blue, and …
  • Synthesizing the American Health Information Community’s Minimum Data Set

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    One of the challenges facing developers and users of automated disease surveillance systems is being able to accurately evaluate the performance of their systems for the wide variety of public health threats that are possible. A… read more
    … be pre- sented and methods for insuring maintenance of con- fidentiality will be discussed. BACKGROUND One of the … based on the hypothesized activity of individuals with con- tagious diseases [1]. This data is only as accurate as …
  • Cross Border Syndromic Surveillance- Overview and Recommendations from an ISDS Consultation Held in Kingston, Ontario Canada, June 11-12th, 2007

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    The objectives of the two day International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) funded consultation were to develop expert, consensus-based recommendations that address specific, unanswered questions that hinder advances in cross border… read more
    … ad- vances in cross border syndromic surveillance. The con- sultation included a discussion of the details of … sharing of notifiable/reportable disease reports. The con- sultation objective was to build upon this work while …
  • Using the Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) to Analyze Influenza Sentinel Provider Surveillance and Influenza Rapid Test Reports

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    The South Carolina (SC) Department of Health and Environmental Control uses multiple surveillance systems to monitor influenza activity from October to May of each year, including participating in the U.S. Influenza Sentinel Providers Surveillance… read more
    … Rapid Test Reports Amy E. Belflower MSPH, Stephanie Cox DVM, Lena M. Bretous MD, MPH, Daniel Drociuk MT, MSPH … Surveillance 2007;2:92 Amy E. Belflower MSPH, Stephanie Cox DVM, Lena M. Bretous MD, MPH, Daniel Drociuk MT, MSPH …
  • Animal bite surveillance using NC DETECT emergency department visit data

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    Animal bites may have potentially devastating consequences, including physical and emotional trauma, infection, rabies exposure, hospitalization, and, rarely, death. NC law requires animal bites be reported to local health directors. However,… read more
    … complaint and triage note keyword searches and ICD-9-CM codes. Using the Animal Bite Keyword Report, statewide ED … of case definition keywords. Using the Animal Bite ICD-9-CM Code Report, statewide ED visit data were extracted for 2008�2010. The following ICD-9-CM injury codes are included in this report: E906.0 (dog …
  • Online Dissemination of National Influenza Surveillance Data

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    Infectious disease surveillance is important for disease control as well as to inform prevention and treatment [1]. While influenza surveillance data coverage and quality has improved significantly in recent years due to resource investments and… read more
    … Stohr K. The global agenda on influenza surveillance and con- trol. Vaccine, 2003: 21(16)1744-8. Further Information: …
  • Mulitregional CUSUM Surveillance

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    Monitoring sales of over-the-counter products is becoming increasingly common for purposes of public health surveillance. Sales data for anti-diarrheal medications have been used to monitor outbreaks of waterborne Cryptosporidium outbreaks. An… read more
    … club cardholders. Daily counts were initially assumed to come from a Poisson distribution. Data were transformed to …