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Methodology for prediction of outbreaks of diseases of military importance
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Traditional public health practice has relied on public health surveillance of disease to detect outbreaks in an effort to mitigate their effects. Often the earlier an outbreak is detected, the greater the mitigation of its effects. The logical… read more… Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA E-mail: anna.buczak@jhuapl.edu Objective This paper addresses … -
Non-parametric intensity bounds for the visualization of disease clusters
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Consider the most likely disease cluster produced by any given method, like SaTScan, for the detection and inference of spatial clusters in a map divided into areas; if this cluster is found to be statistically significant, what could be… read more… Department, University of Brası́lia, Brası́lia, Brazil E-mail: fernandoluizoliveira@est.ufmg.br Objective Given an … -
Impact of alternate diagnoses on the accuracy of influenza-like illness case definition used for H1N1 screening in the emergency department
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In June 2009, the CDC defined a confirmed case of H1N1 as a person with an ILI and laboratory confirmed novel influenza A H1N1 virus infection. ILI is defined by the CDC as fever and cough and/or sore throat, in the absence of a known cause… read more… and 2Pangaea Information Technologies, Chicago, IL, USA E-mail: dino_rumoro@rush.edu Objective This study investigates … -
Application of biosurveillance methodology to the 2010 Asian foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks
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Argus is an event-based, multi-lingual, biosurveillance system, which captures and analyzes information from publicly available internet media. Argus produces reports that summarize and contextualize direct, indirect, and… read more… Biodefense, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA E-mail: reilly@isis.georgetown.edu Objective Our objective is … -
Assessing address data quality for public health surveillance in Montreal
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In Montreal, notifiable diseases are reported to the Public Health Department (PHD). Of 44, 250 disease notifications received in 2009, up to 25% had potential address errors. These can be introduced during transcription, handwriting… read more… Health, McGill University, Montréal, Canada E-mail: elanktre@santepub-mtl.qc.ca Objective To (1) validate … -
Automated surveillance and public health reporting for gestational diabetes incidence and care using electronic health record data
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Public health departments have a strong interest in monitoring the incidence, care, and complications of gestational diabetes, as it is associated with poor outcomes for infants and increased risk of diabetes type II for mothers.… read more… Department of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA E-mail: mklompas@partners.org Objective To develop an … -
A Voronoi based scan for space-time cluster detection in point event data
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Scan statistics are highly successful for the evaluation of space-time clusters. Recently, concepts from the graph theory were applied to evaluate the set of potential clusters. Wieland et al. introduced a graph theoretical… read more… University of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil E-mail: duczmal@est.ufmg.br Objective We describe a method for … -
Creating a shared epidemiologic vocabulary: lessons from the former Soviet Union
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As part of the United States Department of Defense strategy to counter biological threats, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s biological threat reduction program is enhancing the capabilities of countries in the former Soviet Union… read more… 3Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkov, Ukraine E-mail: AGrigoryan@cdc.gov Objective The objective of this …