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Detection of multiple overlapping anomalous clusters in categorical data
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Syndromic surveillance typically involves collecting time-stamped transactional data, such as patient triage or examination records or pharmacy sales. Such records usually span multiple categorical features, such as location, age… read more… Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: sabhnani@cs.cmu.edu Objective We present Disjunctive … Weekly Epidemiological Reports3. The data stores patient visits spanning 26 regions and 9 diseases reported over 2.5 … -
A data simulation model using NRDM pharmaceutical sales counts
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In disease surveillance, an outbreak is often present in more than one data type. If each data type is analyzed separately rather than combined, the statistical power to detect an outbreak may suffer because no single data source… read more… University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: jiq4@pitt.edu Objective This study proposes a … with the syndromic dataset collected during the ED visits of patients in order to improve the power of early … -
Surveillance in New Jersey - From Anthrax to Automation
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In the summer of 2001, New Jersey (NJ) was in the process of developing surveillance activities for bioterrorism. On September 11, 2001, the U.S. suffered a major terrorist attack. Approximately a month later, Anthrax-laced letters were processed… read more… when there was a more defined purpose to reporting ED visits and admissions (e.g., The Republican National … and ED staff; HMS, Inc.; DHSS OITS staff. *Teresa Hamby E-mail: Teresa.Hamby@doh.state.nj.us (page number not for … -
Integrated approach of non-specific surveillance in Reunion Island
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In Reunion Island, the non-specific surveillance was developed since 2006 and was based on the activity of only one hospital emergency department and on mortality. To respond to the threat of influenza A(H1N1) pandemic emergence, this surveillance… read more… regulation center; � number of consultations and home visits by general practi- tioners. These indicators and … Bull EpidémiolHebd. 2010:283� 5. *Pascal Vilain E-mail: Pascal.VILAIN@ars.sante.fr (page number not for … -
A web-based platform to support text mining of clinical reports for public health surveillance
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PyConTextKit is a web-based platform that extracts entities from clinical text and provides relevant metadata - for example, whether the entity is negated or hypothetical - using simple lexical clues occurring in the window of text surrounding the… read more… Analysis. Bled, Slovenia; 2011:75�82. *Annie T. Chen E-mail: atchen@email.unc.edu (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS … -
Potential elimination of rabies from Pemba Island, Tanzania
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A mobile phone-based surveillance system to support the rabies control program is currently in use across southern Tanzania and was implemented in Pemba since 2011. The system allows for near real-time reporting of information on: patients with… read more… ORGANIZATION: Ifakara Health Institute COUNTRY: Tanzania Email: kennedylushasi@ymail.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? _x__ Human health … -
Comparison of ED and Urgent Care ILI Surveillance Data From the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak
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Syndromic surveillance of health care data such as the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9), codes related to Influenza-Like-Illness (ILI), was used to track the progression of the 2009 Fall Novel H1N1 Outbreak in the… read more… care centers was 0.298 in comparison with 0.125 for ED visits during the 2009 Fall Novel H1N1 influenza outbreak. … of disease outbreaks. MMWR. 2005. *Robert Redwood E-mail: rredwood@uwhealth.org (page number not for citation … -
Syndromic Surveillance Pilot Project in Dongcheng District of Beijing China
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Syndromic surveillance had been implemented in Dongcheng District with a view to probing into the feasibility of establishing a syndromic surveillance system in major Chinese cities, sieving syndromic surveillance indicators… read more… due to cough(chart4).11 hospitals have report 4,000,643 visits, including fever, …