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  • Dual Graph Spatial Cluster Detection for Syndromic Surveillance in Networks

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    Early warning systems must not always rely on geographical proximity for modeling the spread of contagious diseases. Instead, graph structures such as airways or social networks are more adequate in those situations. Nodes,… read more
    … [1] Kulldorff M, 1997. A Spatial Scan Statistic, Comm. Statist. Theory Meth., 26(6), 1481-1496. [2] Duczmal …
  • Integrating Early Event Detection into Local Disease Surveillance and Response

    Content Type: Abstract

    This poster describes the practical integration of Early Event Detection (EED) into the daily operation of a medium sized public health department to improve surveillance for, and response to, outbreaks of communicable disease.
    … Food and Community Safety, and Communicable Disease Con- trol. Meeting attendees are tasked with collecting and …
  • Mixture Likelihood Ratio Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak Detection

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    This article describes the methodology and results of Team #134ís submission to the 2007 ISDS Technical Contest.
    … (both before and after an outbreak) than if we only con- sidered nonspecific deviations from the “in-control” …
  • Sensitivity and Specificity of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome in the Turkish Language

    Content Type: Abstract

    Previously we developed an “Ngram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in Turkish for bioterrorism. The classifier is developed from a set of ED visits for which both the ICD… read more
    … Syndrome in the Turkish Language Philip Brown1, Cem Oktay MD2, Arif Alper Cevik MD3, Isa Kilicaslan MD2, …
  • CDC Asthma CCDD v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose:The purpose of this definition is to capture potential emergency department visits related to asthma.How it works:The Chief Complaint Discharge Diagnosis (CCDD) parsed field is used to query both the… read more
    … discharge diagnosis code for Acute exacerbation of asthma co-occurrent with allergic rhinitis – (99031000119107) OR A … discharge diagnosis code for Acute exacerbation of asthma co-occurrent with allergic rhinitis – (99031000119107) OR … Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) J45 Asthma SNOMED Concepts 281239006 Exacerbation of …
  • Design of Web-Based Detectability Evaluation Software that Interfaces with a Syndromic Surveillance System

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    To design detectability evaluation software that interfaces with the Realtime Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) System.
    … detectability of seasonal outbreaks due in part to con- straints on historical data that were imposed to reduce …
  • Multilingual Chief Complaint Classifier

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    Free text chief complaints (CCs), which may be recorded in different languages, are an important data source for syndromic surveillance systems. For automated syndromic surveillance, CCs must be classified into predefined syndromic categories to… read more
    … CCs collected from a hospital in Phoenix and Chinese CCs col- lected from a hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, shows …
  • Identifying and Modeling Spatial Patterns of Heat-Related Illness in New York City

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    This paper describes the spatial pattern of New York City (NYC) heat-related emergency medical services (EMS) ambulance dispatches and emergency department visits (ED) and explores how this information can be used in planning for and response to… read more
    … medical 911 calls coded into 52 broad call-types. ED data come from 48 of 62 NYC hospitals covering 90% of total ED …