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  • BioSense 2.0 Webinar: Using Surveillance to Prepare and Respond to Winter Weather: Extreme Cold, Ice, and Snow

    Content Type: Webinar

    For much of the United States, 2014 began with extreme cold and large snowstorms. As a result, surveillance practitioners around the country have been working to identify, gather, and analyze cold weather-related data. This presentation will focus… read more
    …     Slides  and  recording:       Available  at:  http://www.syndromic.org/component/content/article/37/723         …     Syndromes:  Cold  (frostbite/hypothermia),  falls,  CO   exposure   https://biosen.se Public Health Surveillance … BioSense Weather  Underground:  http://www.wunderground.com/   https://biosen.se Public Health Surveillance Through …
  • Some Interactive Data Exploration Tools for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes several interactive data exploration tools for examining surveillance data.
    … Web Consortium. Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG). http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ [2] NPD group. Macromedia Flash and … Players. Online survey, conducted April 2006. http://www.adobe.com/ products/player_census/npd/ Further Information: Ian …
  • Development of a Recurrent Neural Network Model for Prediction of Dengue Importation

    Content Type: Abstract

    In recent years, mosquito-borne diseases such as Zika, chikungunya, and dengue have become particularly problematic due to global climate change. Rising temperatures and changes in precipitation are considered to be associated with habitat… read more
    … such cross-border infectious diseases, countries have come up with various strategies to control and manage … such cross-border infectious diseases, countries have come up with various strategies to control and manage …
  • Implementation and Comparison of Preprocessing Methods for Biosurveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Modern biosurveillance relies on multiple sources of both prediagnostic and diagnostic data, updated daily, to discover disease outbreaks. Intrinsic to this effort are two assumptions: (1) the data being analyzed contain early indicators… read more
    … singularities” and will falsely report outbreaks when com- paring new counts to past low holiday values (2). … 25. CDC: CDC Syndromic Surveillance site 2006, [http://www. cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/wk/mm54su01.pdf ]. 26. Farrington C, … Informatics and Decision Making 2005, 5:4:1–14, [http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/ 1472- 6947- 5- 4.pdf]. …
  • Monitoring Febrile Syndromes from Chief Complaints: Is the Information There?

    Content Type: Abstract

    There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and available syndromic case definitions demonstrate substantial heterogeneity of findings constituting the definition. Many syndromic case definitions require… read more
    … Author JND manu- ally classified the patients’ chief com- plaints into febrile syndromic catego- ries using the … for manual classification of chief complaints when com- pared to criterion standard classification for five … Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp 2002:1030. 2. Chapman WW, Dowling JN, Wagner MW. Gener- ating a reliable reference …
  • Chart Review of Laboratory-Confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis Cases in a Local Food Borne Outbreak Linked to Mung Bean Sprouts

    Content Type: Abstract

    A retrospective chart review was performed to examine chief complaint, syndrome classification and discharge diagnoses of laboratory confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis phage type (PT) 13 cases who visited the Emergency Departments (ED) of two local… read more
    … Public Health, located in Kingston, Ontario has been con- ducting Emergency Department (ED) Syndromic Surveil- … in November 2005. A comparison was made between the chief com- plaint, syndrome classification and discharge … using a free-text medical diagnosis classifier. The chief com- plaints and discharge diagnoses were as follows (Figure …
  • Detecting and Preventing Emerging Epidemics of Crime

    Content Type: Abstract

    We apply recently developed spatial biosurveillance techniques to the law enforcement domain, with the goal of helping local police departments to rapidly detect and respond to (or better yet, to predict and prevent) emerging spatial patterns of… read more
    … Statis- tical significance of each detected cluster was com- puted by randomization testing, and all significant … Further Information: Daniel B. Neill, neill@cs.cmu.edu www.cs.cmu.edu/~neill Advances in Disease Surveillance …
  • BioSense 2.0 Webinar: Data Quality Checks and Assurance

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenters Caleb Wiedeman and Harold Gil will describe some of the processes their organizations use to ensure the quality of data in BioSense v2.0. First, Caleb Wiedeman will review his normal routine of verifying data quality, including checking… read more
    … Host:  ISDS  and  the  BioSense  Redesign  Team  (http://www.syndromic.org/resources/isds-­‐ …     Data  Quality  Metrics:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/ 0B9v3HiiWbFkpdU1tUjQ1UHdBazg/edit?usp=sharing     Binning  Map:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/ 0B9v3HiiWbFkpc21PQVZXZjRzWG8/edit?usp=sharing   …