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  • A Pilot Study of Aberration Detection Algorithms with Simulated Data

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    To evaluate four algorithms with varying baseline periods and adjustment for day of week for anomaly detection in syndromic surveillance data.   read more
    … User Guide, version 2.06 (September 2006), at http://0- www.cdc.gov.mill1.sjlibrary.org/biosense, 2007. 3. CR …
  • Characterization of communicable disease epidemics using bayesian inversion

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    The evolution of a communicable disease in a human population is not entirely predictable. However, the spreading process can be assumed to vary smoothly in time. The time-dependent infection process can be linked to observations of… read more
    … C Safta et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 5757 …
  • Gastrointestinal disease outbreak detection using multiple data streams from electronic medical records

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    GI disease outbreaks can be focal (for example, restaurant associated), generalized (for example, seasonal rotavirus increases) or intermediate (for example, widely disseminated contaminated commercial products). Health departments (HDs) are… read more
    … Greene et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 2626 …
  • Tracking H1N1 vaccine doses administered using CRA system

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    The novel strain of H1N1 Influenza A virus, which first caused localized outbreaks in parts of Mexico, was declared a pandemic in June 2009. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Countermeasure and Response… read more
    … Nichols et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 80 …
  • A spatio-temporal absorbing state model for disease and syndromic surveillance

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    The goal of disease and syndromic surveillance is to monitor and detect aberrations in disease prevalence across space and time. Disease surveillance typically refers to the monitoring of confirmed cases of disease, whereas syndromic… read more
    … Heaton et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 2828 …
  • Using UMLS Semantic Network to Identify Search Terms for Biosurveillance

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    The variability of free text emergency department (ED) data is problematic for biosurveillance, and current methods of identifying search terms for symptoms of interest are inefficient as well as time- and labor-intensive. Our ad… read more
    … frame=http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/documentation.html [2] …
  • Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance

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    The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) receives daily emergency department (ED) data from 33 (29%) of the 114 EDs in North Carolina. These data are available via a Web-based portal and the Early… read more
    … bioterrorism- associated agents. Available at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/syndromedef/ [3] Wagner, MM, …
  • Enhanced Surveillance Improved Timeliness and Sensitivity at the FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany

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    Security threats and the recent emergence of avian influenza in Europe have heightened the profile of and need for a good surveillance strategy during such events. The two main rationales for enhanced infectious disease surveillance at mass events… read more
    … A58/4, 16 May 2005. [Cited 2005 Nov 29]. Available from www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA58/A58_4-en.pdf Advances …