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Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance
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For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more -
Exploring Multi-Cluster Structures with the Multi-Objective Circular Scan
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The spatial scan statistic is the usual measure of strength of a cluster [1]. Another important measure is its geometric regularity [2]. A genetic multiobjective algorithm was developed elsewhere to identify irregularly shaped clusters [3]. A search… read more -
Exploring Syndrome Definition by Applying Clustering Methods to Electronic Health Records Data
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Electronic Health Record (EHR) data offers the researcher a potentially rich source of data for tracking disease syndromes. Procedures performed on the patient, medications… read more -
Exploring the Gaps: Symptoms by Influenza Type and Enhanced Sampling
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The ability to accurately predict influenza infection by symptoms and local epidemiology prior to lab confirmation warrants further study… read more -
Student Rotation in a Veterinary Teaching Hospital as a Potential Surveillance Confounder
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Identifying potential biases and confounders that may affect data quality is an important consideration when evaluating surveillance systems. Having the benefit of predictable temporal trends is a key requirement to improve upon… read more -
Substance Abuse Among Youth in Miami-Dade County, 2005-2007
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The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 9th to 12th graders in Miami-Dade County public schools found that 69.7% of students tried alcohol, 28.3% tried marijuana, and 6.3% tried cocaine in their lifetime. Results also showed that… read more -
Super Bowl Surveillance: A Practical Exercise in Inter-Jurisdictional Public Health Information Sharing
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When the Chicago Bears met the Indianapolis Colts for Super Bowl XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public health departments have instituted heightened… read more -
Support Vector Machines for Syndromic Surveillance
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Early and reliable detection of anomalies is a critical challenge in disease surveillance. Most surveillance systems collect data from multiple data streams but the majority of monitoring is performed at univariate time series… read more