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  • Epibasket: a prototype web tool aimed to speed up and standardize the epidemiological investigation of an outbreak

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    The detailed analysis of the epidemiological literature on the 2003 SARS epidemic published in peer reviewed journals has shown that a majority (78%) of the epidemiological articles were submitted after the epidemic had ended,… read more
    … Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 70 value might include the Impact Factor of the journals … the papers having previously used the variable). This may be useful, for example, at the time of choosing between … review. PLoS Med 2010;7:e1000272. 2 See www.prestashop.com, quexml.sourceforge.net/, and www. limesurvey.org. Web …
  • Impact of including physician’s prescribing directions on calculations of medication possession ratios

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    Medication adherence studies typically use pharmacy-dispensing data to infer drug exposures. These studies often require calculations reflecting the intensity and duration of drug exposure. The typical approach to estimating duration of drug… read more
    … precision and accuracy of drug exposure and compliance may benefit from this algorithmic approach. Acknowledgements … program on medication adher- ence. Am J Manag Car 2003;9:70–80. This is an Open Access article distributed under the …
  • Syndromic Surveillance for Detection of Increased Morbidity and Mortality by Influenza

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    To evaluate whether a rise or shift in severe morbidity and mortality by influenza can be detected with syndromic surveillance.
    … during the influenza season 2003/2004, this deviance may indicate more severe consequences of influenza infection …
  • 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
    … cell or home phones). During the pilot, the alert “body” may include limited de-identified geographical and … labs during a 15 minute interval, which translates into 70,000 orders per hour. Data analysis from the pilot … Eileen Koski, Eileen.X.Koski@questdiagnostics.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;2:18 OBJECTIVE To …
  • Integrated Syndromic and Virologic Surveillance Systems from Taiwan's Experiences in Facing Global Challenges of Emerging Infectious Diseases

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    Objective: Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (EID/REID) involve large populations at risk and thus they might lead to rapidly increasing cases or case fatality rates. Living in this global village, cross-country or cross-continent spread… read more
    … Chwan-Chuen King1*, Dr. P.H. Tsung-Shu Joseph Wu1, M.S., Muh-Yung Yen2, M.S., Chao- Sheng Huang3, B.S., Jin-Yi … Research Center, *Corresponding Author <cc_king99@hotmail.com> OBJECTIVE Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases …
  • International System for Total Early Disease Detection (InSTEDD) Platform

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    This paper describes a hybrid (event-based and indicator-based) surveillance platform designed to streamline the collaboration between domain experts and machine learning algorithms for detection, prediction and response to health-related events (… read more
    … environ- ment where numerous biosurveillance algorithms may provide contradictory interpretations of ongoing events. … events through a collaborative approach that com- bines data exploration, integration, search and infer- …
  • Learning Stable Multivariate Baseline Models for Outbreak Detection

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    We propose a novel technique for building generative models of real-valued multivariate time series data streams. Such models are of considerable utility as baseline simulators in anomaly detection systems. The proposed algorithm, based on Linear… read more
    … it is important that any baseline model scales to mul- tidimensional observations. In many cases, different … A. At every time step, a higher-dimensional observation y is emit- ted according to another linear transformation. …
  • Looking for Anthrax: Feasibility Study of Free Text Analytics for Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance

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    The primary objective of this study is to assess the capability of an advanced text analytics tool that uses natural language processing techniques to extract important medical information collected as part of routine emergency room care (history,… read more
    … data from a pa- tient’s medical chart. Such information may increase the sensitivity and specificity of syndromic … Further Information: Hillary Kleiner, kleiner_hillary@bah.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:20 … The primary …