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Syndrome evaluation of individuals reporting emergency department utilization for notifiable disease and conditions
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The Duval County Health Department (DCHD) serves a community of over one million people in Jacksonville, FL, USA. Each year, DCHD Epidemiology Program reports an average of 1133 (4-year average) notifiable diseases and conditions (NDC)… read more -
Temporo-spatial surveillance of influenza-like illness: preliminary results from the Idaho infectious disease reporting network
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Current influenza-like illness (ILI) monitoring in Idaho is based on syndromic surveillance using laboratory data, combined with periodic person-to-person reports collected by Idaho state workers. This system relies on voluntary … read more -
The influence of address errors on detecting outbreaks of campylobacteriosis
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Mandatory notification to public health of priority communicable diseases (CDs) is a cornerstone of disease prevention and control programs. Increasingly, the addresses of CD cases are used for spatial monitoring and cluster detection… read more -
The National Biosurveillance Integration System
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Objective The National Biosurveillance Integration System (NBIS) is a consortium of federal agencies, whose joint objective is to enhance the identification, location, characterization, and tracking of biological… read more -
The spatial-temporal pattern of excess influenza visits at the (sub-)urban scale
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Quantifying the spatial-temporal diffusion of diseases such as seasonal influenza is difficult at the urban scale for a variety of reasons including the low specificity of the extant data, the heterogenous nature of healthcare seeking… read more -
The use of patient temperature data for biosurveillance in the emergency department
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Biosurveillance systems commonly use emergency department (ED) patient chief complaint data (CC) for surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI). Daily volumes are tracked using a computerized patient CC classifier for fever (CC… read more -
The utility of inpatient data obtained from regional health information organizations for pneumonia and influenza surveillance
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Hospital discharge data received by public health agencies has a reporting lag time of greater than six months. This data is often used retrospectively to conduct surveillance to assess severity of illness and outcome, and for… read more -
Tracking emergency department (ED) patients with gastrointestinal symptoms during a Norovirus epidemic in Miami-Dade
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From January to March 2010, thirteen outbreaks of Norovirus infection were reported to the Epidemiology, Disease Control and Immunization Service (EDC-IS), up from four outbreaks in the entire 2008 and same number during 2009. … read more