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Characterizing Repeated Outbreak Patterns in Influenza Time Series
Content Type: Abstract
In some influenza seasons, morbidity and mortality closely follow the expected seasonal variation. In these years, approaches such as SerflingÃs model and seasonal-based syndromic outbreak detectors, in use in EARS, work well. In other years,… read more… data sets, including hospital emer- gency department visits coded for respiratory infec- tion and ambulatory care visits coded for several syndromes. In those cases, Poisson … -
Utilization of the Syndromic Surveillance Framework for Detection of Heat-Related illnesses
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The use of syndromic surveillance in Tulsa County began as an attempt to identify symptoms associated with Category A agents, namely Anthrax. The underlying premise for adopting the system was the hope that an astute clinician,… read more… summer months often result in increased emergency room visits with heat-related complaints such as dehydration, … cramps and loss of consciousness. Outcomes for these visits range from mild therapies to hospitalization for more … -
OHS Workgroup Meeting Notes - June 6, 2016
Content Type: Presentation Slides
ISDS started the One Health Surveillance Workgroup (OHS WG) to engage its members in the advancement of this important and topical field. We define OHS as the "collaborative, on-going, systematic collection and analysis of data from multiple… read more… about OHS – Spread out word of OH day—develop an email, interaction with individuals/organizationsÆuse ISDS … -
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… services Sociaux de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada E-mail: kate.zinszer@mail.mcgill.ca Objective To examine, via a simulation study, … -
Approach to zoonoses in the context of One Health
Content Type: Case Study
Zoonotic diseases constitute about 70% of the emerging or reemerging diseases in the world; they affect many animals, cause many economic loses, and have a negative effect on public health. As a tropical country, Cuba is not exempt from the… read more… ORGANIZATION: Ministry of Public Health COUNTRY: Cuba Email: yusaymacg@infomed.sld.cu WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK … and the departments of statistics and epidemiology via email and telephone. Information is sent daily, weekly, or … -
Surveillance for Health Effects Secondary to an Expected Rise in Air Pollution
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Every year the United States generates close to 300 million scrap tires. Due to their high energygenerating capacity, tires can be used as a fuel source (tire-derived fuel, or TDF). In 2006 a paper mill located less than 3 miles… read more… average for comparison. Hospital and outpatient clinic visits were monitored for increases in shortness of breath, … with a mechanism for linking these reports with actual visits to a health care provider. Surveillance that is more … -
Benchmarking Temporal Surveillance Techniques
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Benchmarking of temporal surveillance techniques is a critical step in the development of an effective syndromic surveillance system. Unfortunately, holding “bakeoffs” to blindly compare approaches is a difficult and often fruitless enterprise, in… read more… and then benchmarked using five years of daily visits in the Boston area of the HPHC data. In particular, … mial Model of Transients in Daily Emergency Department Visits for Detecting Infectious Disease Outbreaks. Submit- … -
Identifying Fractures in BioSense Radiology Reports
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The purposes of this study are to validate a keyword-based text parsing algorithm for identifying fractures and compare radiology results with chief complaint and ICD-9 final diagnoses.… and pharmeutical receipt. METHODS We studied 17,647 visits with an extremity film and final ICD-9 coded … we applied the text parsing algorithm to all 17,647 visits with a text radiography reading. Of these, 73% were …