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ROC Curves in Public Health Surveillance: A First Step in Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Our purpose was to develop an ROC curve for public health surveillance similar to those used in diagnostic testing. We developed syndrome surveillance algorithms with differing sensitivity and specificity in detecting the seasonal influenza (ILI)… read more… RESULTS There were over 500,000 patient emergency visits available for analysis in years 2000-2004. Age- Group … -
Louisiana Takes Action Against Drug Abuse by Sharing Syndromic Data
Content Type: Success Stories
Louisiana, like other states, grapples with widespread drug abuse. CDC’s DrugOverdose Death Data show Louisiana had a statistically significant 14.7% increase in its drug overdose death rate from 2015–2016. As early as 2013, the Louisiana Office of… read more… began by sharing the percentage of emergency department visits related to substance abuse with the State … began by sharing the percentage of emergency department visits related to substance abuse with the State … -
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… The alerts can be sent through various channels (i.e. E-mail, pager, cell or home phones). During the pilot, the … -
Assessing the Impact of Syndromic Surveillance Systems on Routine Public Health Practice: Identifying and Evaluating Syndromic Signals
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We describe the development and implementation of a protocol for identifying syndromic signals and for assessing their value to public health departments for routine (non-bioterrorism) purposes. The specific objectives of the evaluation are to… read more… state’s web-based health alert network [5] or via e-mail from the surveillance system’s data center. Each … -
Automated Generation of Hypothesis of Processes Causing Clusters
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Computational and statistical methods for detecting disease clusters, such as the spatial scan statistic, have become frequently used tools in epidemiology. However, they simply tell the user where a cluster is, and leave the… read more… State University. Jamison Conley, Jamison.Conley@mail.wvu.edu Source code available at … -
Bird Flu: The Media and Syndromic Surveillance
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In the past, the media has served a source of data for syndromic surveillance of infectious disease, whether it is outbreaks of disease in animals or humans resulting in illness or death. More often than not, the reverse is true; data based on… read more… Cynthia F. Racer, MA, MPH Cyndi_genome2000@yahoo.com, or mail, c/o CRISIS, PO Box 4853, New York, NY 10185 Advances … -
Influenza surveillance using inpatient health information exchange data
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During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) temporarily made lab-confirmed influenza hospitalizations and deaths reportable. As reporting influenza hospitalizations is resource intensive for hospitals,… read more… Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA E-mail: natasha.close@doh.wa.gov Objective To evaluate the … -
BioSense program redesign
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The BioSense program’s mission is to support and improve public health surveillance infrastructure and human capacity required to monitor (with minimal lag) critical population health indicators of the scope and severity of acute… read more… McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada E-mail: tik2@cdc.gov Objective The objective of this study is …