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  • The Potential of Hospital Data Sources for Influenza Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Influenza is an important public health problem associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. A disease traditionally monitored via legally mandated reporting, researchers have identified alternative data sources for… read more
    … period as 1st June – 31st December, a period the health com- munity typically uses for Western Australia. We de- …
  • The Utility of Patient Chief Complaint and ICD 9 Classifiers for the Influenza Sub-Syndrome

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    In order to detect influenza outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance system uses patients’ chief complaint (CC) to assign visits to respiratory and fever syndromes… read more
    … of flu. Our own experience was that although flu may be a com- mon presentation in the ED during the flu season, it is …
  • Nurse Call Data for Detection of Influenza-Like Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    Influenza affects millions of people and causes about 36,000 deaths in the United States each winter. Pandemics of influenza emerge at irregular intervals. National influenza surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus… read more
    … percentage of visits for ILI from sentinel providers were com- pared to rolling, seven-day totals of calls for ILI and …
  • How Syndromic Surveillance Helps Clinical Practice: Use of Epidemiological Surveillance Data to Inform Clinical Decisions

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenter Dr. Andrew Fine, Assistant Professor, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School Hosts Johns Hopkins University Grand Rounds and ISDS Research Committee Date… read more
    … throat for use by patients prior to a clinical encounter www.sportsillustrated.com Topics Clinical prediction rules Bacterial meningitis …
  • Automatically tracking diabetes using information in physicians’ notes

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    Patient consultations recorded as voice dictations are frequently stored electronically as transcriptions in free text format. The information stored in free text is not computer tractable. Advances in artificial intelligence permit the… read more
    … text format. The information stored in free text is not comp- uter tractable. Advances in artificial intelligence … Bhatia et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 3 81932 transcribed outpatient notes … Proc AMIA Symp 2001, pp 105–14. Available at http://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/sites/ppmc/articles/PMC2243578/. …
  • An exploratory analysis of the 2010 measles outbreak in Zimbabwe

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    This report describes an exploratory analysis of the 2009-2010 Zimbabwe measles outbreak based on data publicly available in the World Health Organization's Zimbabwe cholera epidemiological bulletin archive. As of December 12th 2010, the outbreak… read more
    … Zimbabwe epidemiological bulletin number 89. http://www.who.int/entity/hac/crises/zwe/sitreps/zwe_ … Zimbabwe cholera epidemiological bulletin archive. http://www.who.int/hac/crises/zwe/sitreps/epi_archive/ … Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL http://www.R- project.org/. 4. Lewin-Koh NJ, Bivand R. maptools: …
  • Using chief complaint data to evaluate the effectiveness of a statewide smoking ban

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    In November 2006, Ohioans supported a statute that set into law a requirement that all public places, and places of employment in Ohio prohibit smoking.1 The law took effect in December 2006; however, the rules for implementation were not finalized… read more
    … Storm et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 43 attack/AMI from 2005–2010 for all … 3701-52Clean Indoor Air (Smoking Regulations). http://www.odh.ohio.gov/rules/final/f3701-52.aspx. 2 A Report of … gov/library/secondhandsmoke/report. 3 IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2010 Secondhand Smoke Exposure …
  • ESSENCE Version 2.0: The Department of Defense's Worldwide Syndromic Surveillance System Receives Several Enhancements

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    ESSENCE receives and analyzes data for the Military Health System’s (MHS) 9 million beneficiaries resulting in approximately 90,000 daily outpatient and emergency department visits worldwide. In May 2008, MHS released … read more
    … J. Savory, M.S1., Gale E. Savage, MD, MPH1., Kenneth L. Cox, MD, MPH2 1Epidemiological Surveillance Methods and … Technological Application [Online]. Available: http://www.ha.osd.mil/ahlta/. Accessed on February 14, 2008. …