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Syndromic Surveillance Signal Investigation in Los Angeles County
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In the fall of 2001, the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response (BT P&R) Unit initiated a syndromic surveillance system utilizing chief complaint data collected from Emergency Departments throughout Los Angeles County (LAC). Chief complaint data… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance System for the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit Meeting 2008
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Infection Control Law in Japan has asked doctors to cooperate in syndromic surveillance for pandemic flu and smallpox since 2007. However, doctors have to report by typing the number of patients on the web site, or by sending a… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance System User Satisfaction and Attitudes
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With the recent emphasis on public health preparedness, health departments are identifying new ways to prepare for emergencies. There has been a significant increase in the number of syndromic surveillance systems operating in… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance with Death Data: a Pilot Study in the Netherlands
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Crude mortality could be valuable for infectious disease surveillance if available in a complete and timely fashion. Such data can be of used for detecting, and tracking the impact of unusual health events (e.g. pandemic… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance with Death Data: Is Crude Mortality Data Suitable for Real Time Surveillance?
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Crude mortality could be valuable for infectious disease surveillance if available in a complete and timely fashion. Syndromic surveillance with weekly deaths has been demonstrated to be useful in France. Such data can be of use… read more -
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 -
System Monitoring for Near Real-Time Surveillance for Infectious Diseases
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Events of recent years, particularly concern about a possible avian (H5N1) influenza pandemic, have focused increasing attention on the need for timely surveillance, with real time surveillance as the ultimate goal. In a previous study, we reported… read more -
Systematic Comparison of Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance
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Varied approaches have been used by syndromic surveillance systems for aberration detection. However, the performance of these methods has been evaluated only across a small range of epidemic characteristics. Objective… read more