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  • Open Source Development of Syndromic Investigation Decision Support Tools

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    Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS), a syndromic surveillance system created by the University of Pittsburgh has been used in Ohio by the state and local health departments since late 2003. There are currently 133… read more
    … History of the RODS Laboratory. 07/30/2008. [https://www.rods.pitt.edu/site/index.php?option=com_content&ta sk=view&id=13&Itemid=78]. 07/30/2008. [2] … Inc. Health Monitoring Systems. 04/ 23/2008. [https://www.hmsinc.com/history.htm]. 07/30/2008. [4] Public Health …
  • Weighted non-connectivity for detection of irregular clusters

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    Heuristics to detect irregularly shaped spatial clusters were reviewed recently. The spatial scan statistic is a widely used measure of the strength of clusters. However, other measures may also be useful, such as the geometric compactness… read more
    … Duarte et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 2222 in ref. 3 and compare it with the … MA, 2009;157–82. 2 Kulldorff M. A spatial scan statistic. Comm Statist Theory Meth 1997;26:1481–96. 3 Duczmal L, … Health Threats Journal AR Duarte et al. 2011, 4:s23 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 2323 …
  • Regional Emergence of TB Lesions in Swine Identified at Slaughter

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    A case study presented at the November 2010 Iowa Annual Swine Disease Conference for Swine Practitioners detailed increases in STB lesions beginning January 2010 [1]. Producers were informed of the problem by their swine processing facility. Tissue… read more
    … (EARS). J Urban Health. 2003;80(2 Suppl 1):i89�96. http://www.syndromic.org/syndromicconference/2002/Supplement … Surveillance Conference. http://isds. wikispaces.com/ISDS�Conference�Workshop�Materials. *Wolf Weber E-mail: … http://isds.wikispaces.com/ISDS+Conference+Workshop+Materials …
  • Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?

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     Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more
    … database since 1990, including free-text triage chief com- plaints, dictated and transcribed ED reports, and coded … that only indicated a fever without describing a symp- tom of the syndrome (e.g., “High temp”). Figure 2 shows that … Seattle, Washington, September 2005. REFERENCES 1. http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/phs/syndromic.htm. Accessed April 22, …
  • Searching for MERS and Novel Flu with Limited Resources

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    During the past decade, public health practitioners have implemented various new syndromic and other advanced surveillance systems to supplement their existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and… read more
    … H7N9, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), and other viruses associated with high mortality, … H7N9, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), and other viruses associated with high mortality, …
  • Animal Health Surveillance in the US: How do we go from good to great?

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenter  Dr. Brian McCluskey Brian received a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Washington State University in 1987 and following graduation was in large animal practice, primarily dairy, in western… read more
    … the Center for Animal Health Monitoring in Fort Collins, CO as the Dairy Commodity Support Analyst. He received a PhD …  for  Animal  Health  Monitoring  in  Fort  Collins,  CO  as  the  Dairy  Commodity   Support  Analyst.  He …     Slides  and  recording:       Available  at:  http://www.syndromic.org/component/content/article/37/830     …
  • Use of Informatics for Understanding Disease Activity in Community

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    Centre for Health Protection (CHP) plans to conduct a pilot project in developing a syndromic surveillance system using data from Emergency Departments (ED) in Hong Kong. This is part of the Communicable Disease Information System initiative, which… read more
    … Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENC … [2] Hutwagner L, Browne T, Seeman GM, Fleischauer AT. Com- paring aberration detection methods with simulated …
  • Using AFDL Algorithm to Estimate Risk of Positive Outcomes of Microbial Tests at Food Establishments

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    One of the common tasks faced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) food safety analysts is to estimate the risk of observing positive outcomes of microbial tests of food samples collected at the slaughter and food… read more
    … test its utility in the food safety context, we treat a co-occurrence of the same strain of bacteria (in … of a link produces uncertain data given that the co-occurrences of specific test results at different … test its utility in the food safety context, we treat a co-occurrence of the same strain of bacteria (in par- …