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Could Syndromic Surveillance Data be Used Effectively with Other Data Sources? A Transposable Local View
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This panel member consultation is an International Society of Disease Surveillance (ISDS) sponsored project. It involved expert personnel in their respective area to address specific, priority questions confronting researchers, developers, and… read more -
Criteria for Prioritizing Statisitical Anomalies Identified in BioSense
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Objective To describe a standard set of criteria for identifying potentially important anomalies and to compare the criteria with several recent public health events. read more -
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 -
A Global Landscape of Participatory Disease Surveillance
Content Type: Webinar
Citizen engagement in public health is being transformed through systems that enable users to directly report on symptoms of disease via email and smartphone technology. Participatory systems encourage routine submission of syndromic data by the… read more -
Data and Text Mining in Analysis of the Emergence of H5N1 Virus Strain
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OBJECTIVE This paper describes a series of data mining techniques used to gather and analyze and disseminate large amounts of data from numerous sources in English as well as Chinese. The objective of the analysis is to attempt to identify locations… read more -
Data Integration and Analytics within the National Bio-Surveillance Integration System
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This presentation introduces the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Bio-Surveillance Integration System (NBIS) and the analytics functionality within the NBIS that integrates and analyzes structured and unstructured data streams… read more -
Data-Adapted Temporal Alerting Algorithms for Routine Health Monitoring
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This paper discusses selection of temporal alerting algorithms for syndromic surveillance to achieve reliable detection performance based on statistical properties and the epidemiological context of the input data. We used quantities calculated from… read more -
Data-Adaptive Multivariate Control Charts for Routine Health Monitoring
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This paper investigates the use of data-adaptive multivariate statistical process control (MSPC) charts for outbreak detection using real-world syndromic data. The widely used EARS [1] methods and other adaptive implementations assume implicitly… read more