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  • Contact tracing in Lassa fever Outbreak Response, an effective strategy for control?

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    Contact tracing is an important strategy employed in surveillance to aid prompt detection of infectious disease and control outbreaks. It involves the identification of those who have come in contact with an infectious person and following them up… read more
    … It involves the identification of those who have come in contact with an infectious person and following them … It involves the identification of those who have come in contact with an infectious person and following them …
  • A prediction market for H5N1 influenza compared with statistical forecasting model

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    Predictionmarkets have been successfully used to forecast future events in other fields. We adapted this method to provide estimates of the likelihood of H5N1 influenza related events.   Objective The purpose… read more
    … ATY Ho et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 2929 their reliance on surveillance data … evidence from Google. Dartmouth College (2008), http://ww.bocowgill.com/GooglePredictionMarketPaper. pdf. 4 Dvorak P. Best buy …
  • 2015 International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference Harnessing Data to Advance Health Equity

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    The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) will hold its fourteenth annual conference in Denver, CO on December 10th and 11th, 2015. The society's mission is to improve population health by advancing the science and practice of… read more
    … will hold its fourteenth annual conference in Denver, CO on December 10th and 11th, 2015. The society's mission is … will hold its fourteenth annual conference in Denver, CO on December 10th and 11th, 2015. The society's mission is …
  • Using a prediction market to forecast dengue fever activity

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    Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease, and there is considerable evidence that case numbers are rising and geographical distribution of the disease is widening within the United States, and around the world.  The accuracy and… read more
    … TK Sell et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 5858 Conclusion The consensus opinion of … flows: Evidence from Google, Dartmouth College (2008). www.bocowgill.com/GooglePredictionMarketPaper.pdf. 4 Dvorak P. Best buy …
  • CDC Zika Virus Presentation

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    This presentation gives an overview of Zika. Topics include the history of the disease, clinical symptoms and treatment, and surveillance of human cases and the mosquitos that spread the virus.   read more
    … Zika Virus Transmission as of February 2, 2016 http://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/ Updated regulary … Zika virus pages: http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_topics&view=article&id =427&Itemid=41484&lang=en � Zika … http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_topics&view=article&id=427&Itemid=41484&lang=en …
  • Utilizing Emergency Department Data to Evaluate Primary Care Clinic Hours

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    In addition to utilizing syndromic surveillance data to respond to public health threats and prepare for major incidents, local health departments can utilize the data to examine patient volumes in the emergency departments (EDs) of… read more
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  • What do GPs Want in Return from a Syndromic Surveillance System?

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    In the Northern part of Norway, all General Practitioners (GPs) and hospitals use electronic health records (EHR). They are connected via an independent secure IP-network called the Norwegian Health Network. The newly developed “Snow… read more
    … hospitals use electronic health records (EHR). They are con- nected via an independent secure IP-network called the … How to Kill Patients Through Bad design. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050411.html [Last downloaded: 29. May 2007]. …
  • Long COVID Narrow v1

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    Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in identifying patients likely to have long COVID (also commonly described as Post-COVID Complications (PCC) or long-haul COVID… read more
    … Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD10-CM) and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED)) … (2022 SyS Symposium Slides - OneDrive (sharepoint.com)). Data Source During Development: Emergency Department … Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD10-CM) and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED)) …