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Inferring Travel from Social Media
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The spread of infectious diseases is facilitated by human travel. Infectious diseases are often introduced into a population by travelers and then spread among susceptible individuals. Likewise uninfected susceptible travelers can move into… read more… We display intrastate travel by aggregating each user’s con- secutive records within each state and plotting only … -
Fast Graph Structure Learning from Unlabeled Data for Outbreak Detection
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Disease surveillance data often has an underlying network structure (e.g. for outbreaks which spread by person-to-person contact). If the underlying graph structure is known, detection methods such as GraphScan (1) can be used to identify an… read more… anomalous subsets detected with and without the graph con- straints. We consider a large set of potential graph … -
Hierarchical Filtering of ESSENCE for Routine, Distributed Disease Monitoring by the Veterans Health Administration
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The VA has employed ESSENCE for health monitoring since 2006 [1]. Epidemiologists at the Office of Public Health (OPH) monitor the VA population at the national level. The system is also intended for facility-level monitoring to cover 152 medical… read more… doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0009533. 2. Burkom H, Elbert Y, Cox K, Lombardo J. Upgrading the ESSENCE health monitoring … -
Use of CDC's Epidemic Information Exchange system as a Disease Surveillance Tool
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Epi-X is an internet-based secure website for the exchange of information regarding developing public health events. Reports are exchanged with state epidemiologists, state health officers, and other key public health officials. Provisional and… read more… of which approximately 1600 are authorized to directly con- tribute reports regarding developing public health … -
Using cKASS to facilitate knowledge authoring and sharing for syndromic surveillance
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Mining text for real-time syndromic surveillance usually requires a comprehensive knowledge base (KB) which contains detailed information about concepts relevant to the domain, such as disease names, symptoms, drugs, and radiology findings. Two such… read more… modify and publish customized syndrome definitions con- structed from either publicly available or user-created … -
Meaningful Use Business Process Mapping Questionnaire
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The survey, developed by the ISDS Meaningful Use Business Process Mapping Subgroup, was designed to facilitate conversations between health care facilities and public health departments before and during Meaningful Use implementation and… read more… each of the indicated data elements: DG1 segment should come before OBX (standard for A03) OBX segment should come before DG1 segment (standard for A01, A04 and A08) … -
Predictors of vaccination uptake for the 2009 influenza pandemic (H1N1) in Montreal
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Work on vaccination timing and promotion largely precedes the 2009 pandemic. Post-pandemic studies examining the wide range of local vaccination efforts mostly have been limited to surveys assessing the role of administrative strategies, logistical… read more… Rainfall�20 mm (ref: B20 mm) 0.67 [0.56�0.79] Snowfall�20 cm (ref: B20 cm) 0.43 [0.33�0.56] Weekend (ref: weekday) 1.02 [0.97�1.07] … -
Adverse Drug Events: Insights From Google Search Volume
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Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. However, post-marketing surveillance systems are passive and reporting is generally not mandated. Thus, many ADEs go unreported, and it is difficult to estimate and/or… read more… 3. Psaty BM, Korn D. Congress responds to the IOM drug safety report-in full. JAMA. 2007;298:2185�7. …