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  • BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience: New Jersey, November, 2004

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    BioSense is a national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiative to improve the nation's capabilities for early event detection and situational awareness. BioSense data includes Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs ambulatory… read more
    … for system improvements. References [1] PHIN: BioSense. www.cdc.gov/phin/ [2] Syndrome Definitions for Diseases … Bioterrorism-Associated Agents. Accessed at: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/syndromedef/index.asp [3] …
  • Infection Watch Live- A Real-time, Geospatial Mapping Tool of Hospital Triage Data for Public Consumption

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    To inform health professionals and the public directly about real-time utilization of local Emergency Departments for respiratory and gastrointestinal illness to enable enhanced communication and collaboration between Public Health and health care… read more
    … maps (generated using ArcGIS Server) and be available at www.klfapublichealth.ca in Septem- ber 2008. METHODS Design … Information: Adam van Dijk, avandijk@kflapublichealth.ca www.kflapublichealth.ca Advances in Disease Surveillance …
  • Late Season Influenza-like Illness in Georgia: Prospective Detection of an Illness Cluster Using Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance

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    This paper describes a cluster of influenza-like illness (ILI) prospectively identified through emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance (SS).
    … [1] CDC, Question and answers: The disease. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/. Accessed: June 27, 2006. [2] … update, week ending May 20, 2006 – week 20. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/. Accessed: June 27, 2006. [4] …
  • A Bayesian Algorithm for Detecting CDC Category A Outbreak Diseases from Emergency Department Chief Complaints

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    This paper describes a Bayesian algorithm for diagnosing the CDC Category A diseases, namely, anthrax, smallpox, tularemia, botulism and hemorrhagic fever, using emergency department chief complaints. The algorithm was evaluated on real data and on… read more
    … of Biosur- veillance (Elsevier, 2006). [2] http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/agentlist-category.asp [3] Cooper GF, … Further Information: Gregory Cooper, gfc@cbmi.pitt.edu, www.cbmi.pitt.edu/panda Advances in Disease Surveillance …
  • Optimal sequential management decisions for influenza outbreaks

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    Management policies for influenza outbreaks balance the expected morbidity and mortality costs versus the cost of intervention policies under outbreak parameter uncertainty. Previous approaches have not updated parameter estimates as data arrives… read more
    … M Ludkovski.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 4141 Conclusion We have built novel … Threats Journal J Niemi and M Ludkovski. 2011, 4:s44 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 4242 …
  • Securing protected health information in NC DETECT

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    NC DETECT receives daily data files from emergency departments (ED), the statewide EMS data collection system, the statewide poison center, and veterinary laboratory test results. Included in these data are elements, which may contain Protected… read more
    … Falls et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 29 access designs must be flexible … Health Threats Journal DM Falls et al. 2011, 4:s79 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 30 …
  • Identification and tracking of heat-related illnesses using syndromic surveillance

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    The summer of 2010 in Maryland was characterized by unusually high temperatures. This type of increased and prolonged heat can potentially make residents sick, and extreme exposure can even kill people at highest risk. Numerous… read more
    … Faigen et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 11 situational awareness of heat-related … held in Park City, UT, USA on 1–2 December 2010. www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 Heat-related illnesses Emerging …
  • Utilities of Maryland’s syndromic surveillance system: identifying threats, case investigation and situational awareness

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    Maryland’s electronic surveillance system for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) data includes emergency department visits from all acute care hospitals, over-the-counter medication sales and poison control data that cover… read more
    … S Aslam et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 7 Conclusion ESSENCE is a vital tool for … Health Threats Journal S Aslam et al. 2011, 4:s62 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 8 …