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Utilizing Emergency Department Data to Evaluate Primary Care Clinic Hours
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In addition to utilizing syndromic surveillance data to respond to public health threats and prepare for major incidents, local health departments can utilize the data to examine patient volumes in the emergency departments (EDs) of… read more… hours’ impact on ED use. METHODS All 2007 ED visits from ESSENCE for the urban public hospital were analyzed for … -
Comparison of Aberration Detection Algorithms for Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes a study of various aberration detection algorithms currently used in syndromic surveillance and one based on artificial neural networks developed at Guelph. The goal of the research is not to select one ìwinningî algorithm but… read more… By applying the moving average algorithm to a set of training data, various thresholds can be tested that yield … -
Design and development of a standards-based model to publish public health reporting criteria
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State laws mandate clinicians and laboratories to report occurrences of reportable diseases to public health entities. For this purpose, a set of case-reporting specifications are published and maintained by public health departments… read more… Translational Research in Public Health Informatics, NLM Training Grant # 5T15LM007124 (DR). Reference 1 M’ikanatha … -
Document classification toward efficient event-based biosurveillance
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Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human health. Online documents, such as news articles on the Internet, have commonly been the … read more… of classifiers, which include class-imbalance in training data sets, that is, few labeled irrelevant (or … -
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… given to each user of the system after they attended a training session to introduce the RI RODS system. RESULTS … -
The Cost of Obfuscation When Reporting Locations of Cases in Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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In a classical surveillance system one looks for disturbances in the number of cases, but in a spatio-temporal system, not only the number of cases observed but also where they are located is reported. What location is reported, and to which degree… read more… National Library of Medicine, RO1-LM007677, and the AIDS Training Grant T32- AI007358. We would like to thank the … -
The New York State BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience
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In addition to monitoring Emergency Department chief complaint data and pharmacy sales as indicators of outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System also monitors information from the… read more… Communi- cations from central VA staff were crucial in training local VA staff with regards to using the coded … -
Tuberculosis Surveillance, Republics of Armenia and Georgia, 2003-2004
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The former Soviet Union (FSU)—through the Sanitary-Epidemiologic Service (SES)—developed an extensive system of disease surveillance that was effective, yet centrally planned in Moscow. Even after the fall of the FSU in 1991,… read more… from additional support, namely academic and field-based training for epidemiologists. In addition, both countries …