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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 -
Construction of an Indicator for Syndromic Surveillance of Gastroenteritis using Data from a General Practitioner Network, Bordeaux, France
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In France, surveillance of seasonal gastroenteritis uses to be monitored by an information system based on a computer network of physicians so called Sentinel Network (1). Regionally, the use of this system as limitations. SOS Medecin is an… read more -
T-Cube as an Enabling Technology in Surveillance Applications
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T-Cube is especially useful for rapidly retrieving responses to ad-hoc queries against large datasets of additive time series labeled using a set of categorical attributes. It can be used as a general tool to support any task… read more -
Talking Turkish: Using N-Grams for Syndromic Surveillance in a Turkish Emergency Department without the Need for English Translation
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Previously we used an “N-Gram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in English for bioterrorism. The classifier is trained on a set of ED visits for which both the ICD diagnosis code and CC are… read more -
Telephone Triage Data for Detection of Influenza-like Illness
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National surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus variants and to monitor influenza-related morbidity and mortality. Nurse telephone triage (“call”) data may serve as a useful complement to… read more -
Temporal-Spatial Surveillance Techniques from Non-Homogenous Random Geometric Graphs
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Graph theory concepts are well established in epidemiology, with particular success as a description of agent-based modeling. An agent-based viewpoint leads to conclusions about the spatial distribution of links: infection is more likely among… read more -
Text-Processing of VA Clinical Notes to Improve Case Detection Models for Influenza-like Illness
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Objective There were two objectives of this analysis. First, apply text-processing methods to free-text clinician notes extracted from the VA electronic medical record for automated detection of Influenza-Like-Illness. Secondly,… read more -
The Application of Enhanced Signal Analyses to Medicaid Data
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The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) currently applies EARS’s CuSum analyses to Medicaid Over the Counter and Prescription Medications data obtained from the Office of Medicaid Management's data warehouse. Daily drug category… read more