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A Scan Statistic Based on Anscombe's Variance Stabilization Transformation
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This paper proposes a new scan statistic which detects disease clusters more accurately than that based on the likelihood ratio.… for the detection of arbitrarily shaped spatial clusters. Com- putational Statistics & Data Analysis 2004; 45:269—286. … -
Comparing the Utility of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Room Data for Disease Outbreak Detection
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To compare the ability to detect disease outbreaks of separate and combined data streams from ambulatory care and emergency department from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.… made among them. Alternatively, these data sources can be com- bined in order to generate a common sequence of … -
The Value of Patient Reports in Syndrome Assignment
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Of critical importance to the success of syndromic surveillance systems is the ability to collect data in a timely manner and thus ensure rapid detection of disease outbreaks. Most emergency department-based syndromic surveillance systems use… read more… Adolesc Med. 1995;149:553-558. Self-report tool Chief com- plaint Syndrome cate- gory Sens (%) Spec (%) Sens (%) … -
Limb Elephantiasis as Predictor for the Occurrence and Spread of Lymphatic Filariasis in Kano State, Nigeria
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Lymphatic filariasis is one of the most prevalent of the tropical diseases, but is also the most neglected.Though significant advances have been made in the understanding both the disease and its control, there is general lack of information about… read more… Zaria, Nigeria * Corresponding Author:mmdogara@yahoo.com Objective This paper describes how limb elephantiasis … -
Effect of expanded recommendations for pediatric seasonal influenza vaccination: an international comparison
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Seasonal influenza epidemics are responsible for over 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States per year, and 39,000 of them are in children. In the United States, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guides… read more… AG Hoen et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 36 part to infection rates averaging … reaction. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2004;23:S11–18. 2 Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, Brammer L, Bridges CB, Cox NJ, et al. Influenza-associated hospitalizations in the … -
CDC All Drug Overdose v3 Parsed
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Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected nonfatal overdoses involving any drug using syndromic surveillance… read more… of Diseases, Clinical Modification, 9th Revision (ICD-9-CM),1 International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification, 10th Revision (ICD-10-CM),2 and/or Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – … intoxication and not poisoning or overdose. The ICD-10-CM code for poisoning by cannabis, T40.711A, was kept. A … -
Effective Use of Laboratory Data for Monitoring Population Health
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Effective public health response to emerging infectious diseases, natural disasters, and bioterrorism requires access to real-time, accurate information on disease patterns and healthcare utilization. The ESSENCE surveillance… read more… disease syn- dromes based on ICD-9 diagnostic codes. We com- pared laboratory test orders to outpatient visits by … -
Evaluation of the Surveillance System 2SE FAG Using a CDC Recommended Framework
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In November 2002 a NATO summit meeting issued an initiative calling for member states to begin development of an interoperable disease surveillance system that had the ability to give early warning in the event of an attack on… read more… and flexi- bility of the system. Validity was assessed by com- paring the surveillance of 2SE FAG with a well es- …