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  • Evaluation within the Users of a Syndromic Surveillance System in French Guiana

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    The syndromic surveillance system “2SE FAG” has been installed within the French Armed Forces in French Guiana (3000 people) in October 2004 [1-2]. During the conception and the deployment of such a system, ergonomic issues were highlighted and… read more
    … (35%) or not training at all (8%) because of operational con- straints. The mailing system was used by 100% of the …
  • Introduction to the System of Combined National Surveillances for Early Detection

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    The first prototype syndromic surveillance in Japan was used during the G8 summit meeting in 2000 with two local prefectures involved. The second trial syndromic surveillance and the first internet-based surveillance used in 2002… read more
    … Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan. The Law Con- cerning the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and …
  • Discriminative Random Field Approach to Spatial Outbreak Detection

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    Spatial scan finds the most anomalous region that has shown increase in observed counts when compared to the expected baseline. As there can be infinitely many regions to search for, most state-of-the-art algorithms assumes a… read more
    … area is repre- sented by a node. Two nodes in the DRF are con- nected if they share a common boundary. The ob- served …
  • Expert Meeting on Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance

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    For syndromic and related surveillance systems to be effective public health tools, state and local health departments and CDC need access to a variety of types of health data.  However, since the development and implementation of syndromic… read more
    … pur- poses. It is in the national interest to clarify the con- ditions under which data can be shared, balancing …
  • Surveillance of West Nile Virus Activity Using Biosense Laboratory Test Order Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    West Nile Virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne virus that can cause meningitis and encephalitis. Since its discovery in New York City during an encephalitis outbreak in 1999, WNV has become endemic in North America. In the United States, 16,000 human WNV… read more
    … I. Tokars, MD1, Roseanne English1, Theresa L. Smith, MD2, Col- leen Bradley, MSPH1, Leslie Sokolow1,3, Henry Rolka, …
  • Syndromic Surveillance in the State of Florida

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    Syndromic Surveillance utilizes health-related symptom data to monitor disease outbreaks. Its’ potential for prompt detection of disease outbreaks and strengthening of rapid public health response is anticipated. As a result, syndromic surveillance… read more
    … Syndromic Surveillance utilizes health-related symp- tom data to monitor disease outbreaks. Its’ potential for …
  • Preliminary Findings from the BioSense Evaluation Project

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    In October 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded four institutions, including Emory University, to conduct evaluations of the BioSense surveillance system. These evaluations include investigations of situations… read more
    … ad hoc active surveillance based on telephone con- tacts between public health and healthcare personnel, …
  • Geographically Meaningful Cluster Scanning Through Weak Link Correction

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    Many heuristics were developed recently to find arbitrarily shaped clusters (see  review  [1]). The most popular statistic is the spatial scan  [2]. Nevertheless, even if all cluster solutions could be known, the problem  of… read more
    … appear) [2]Kulldorff M, 1997. A Spatial Scan Statistic, Comm. Statist. Theory Meth., 26(6), 1481-1496. [3]Duczmal L, …