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  • Self-Evaluation of an Electronic Disease Surveillance System Implemented in the Peruvian Army: Alerta JESAL

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    This paper describes the evaluation of an electronic disease surveillance system implemented in the Peruvian Army following the 2001 CDC surveillance evaluation guidelines.
    … M.D. 1; Yaneth Alvarez, R.N.2; Rollin Cruz, M.D. 2; COL Carlos Leturia, M.D. 2; MG Aldo Clavo2; CDR Joel M. …
  • A Generalization of the AMOC Curve

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    The Activity Monitoring Operating Characteristic (AMOC) curve is a useful and popular method for assessing the performance of algorithms that detect outbreaks of disease [1]. As it is typically applied in biosurveillance, the AMOC curve plots the… read more
    … out- break on the ith case; each possible value of i is con- sidered. For various values of p, we derived the EWT …
  • A New Space-Time Scan Statistic for Timely Outbreak Detection Taking Overdispersion Into Account

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    To propose a new space-time scan statistic taking overdispersion into account for accurate and timely detection of disease outbreaks.
    … of school childrens were 52,189. Baseline period was con- sidered to be from April to September 2006 and the …
  • A Nonstatistical Algorithm for Automated Surveillance of Poison Control Center Data

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    To develop an automated system which examines Poison Control Center data and provides (1) early recognition of events, both man-made and naturally-occurring, which may pose a threat to public health, and (2) real-time notification to Poison… read more
    … RESULTS Currently data from one Poison Control Center (Con- necticut) are evaluated. Threshold values are set for …
  • Evaluation within the Users of a Syndromic Surveillance System in French Guiana

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    The syndromic surveillance system “2SE FAG” has been installed within the French Armed Forces in French Guiana (3000 people) in October 2004 [1-2]. During the conception and the deployment of such a system, ergonomic issues were highlighted and… read more
    … (35%) or not training at all (8%) because of operational con- straints. The mailing system was used by 100% of the …
  • Introduction to the System of Combined National Surveillances for Early Detection

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    The first prototype syndromic surveillance in Japan was used during the G8 summit meeting in 2000 with two local prefectures involved. The second trial syndromic surveillance and the first internet-based surveillance used in 2002… read more
    … Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan. The Law Con- cerning the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and …
  • Discriminative Random Field Approach to Spatial Outbreak Detection

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    Spatial scan finds the most anomalous region that has shown increase in observed counts when compared to the expected baseline. As there can be infinitely many regions to search for, most state-of-the-art algorithms assumes a… read more
    … area is repre- sented by a node. Two nodes in the DRF are con- nected if they share a common boundary. The ob- served …
  • Expert Meeting on Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance

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    For syndromic and related surveillance systems to be effective public health tools, state and local health departments and CDC need access to a variety of types of health data.  However, since the development and implementation of syndromic… read more
    … pur- poses. It is in the national interest to clarify the con- ditions under which data can be shared, balancing …