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  • Reporting nationally notifiable conditions (NNC): vocabulary aspects

    Content Type: Abstract

    Standard vocabulary facilitates the routing and filtering of laboratory data to various public health programs. In 2008, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) developed 67 Technical Implementation Guides (TIGs) that accompany each… read more
    … 2010. References 1 CSTE. Position Statements at: http://www.cste.org/dnn/Annual … Ganesan et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 46 …
  • Alabama Department of Public Health–Syndromic Surveillance Monitoring and Improving Data Quality

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Data latency limited the Alabama Department of Public Health’s (ADPH) ability torecognize and respond quickly to public health threats. Despite ADPH’s request that 95% of syndromic surveillance (SyS) data be submitted to ESSENCE* within 24… read more
    … Services Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance www.cdc.gov/nssp The findings and conclusions of this report … Response mailto:MisChele.Vickers@adph.state.al.us http://www.cdc.gov/nssp …
  • West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Syndromic Surveillance for Mass Gatherings

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Mass gatherings—defined as events attended by a sufficient number of people to strain the planning and response resources of the host state—pose unique surveillance challenges. Attendees can be at greater (or high) risk for injuries due to… read more
    … Services Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance www.cdc.gov/nssp The findings and conclusions of this report …  Informs Public Health Action or Response http://www.cdc.gov/nssp …
  • The New Real Time Surveillance System within the French Forces in French Guiana

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    The development of a real time surveillance system for Forces on duty areas is one of the 5 initiatives of the November 2002 Prague’s NATO meeting. The French Military Health Service has decided to implement a military demonstrator within Forces in… read more
    … summit declaration. Press Release 2002;127 21 nov.2002. www.nato.int/docu/pr/2002/p02-127e.htm [2] Meynard J-B, … Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006;1:84 http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/2002/p02-127e.htm …
  • Inferring Outbreak Characteristics from a Short Observation Period of Symptomatic Patients

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    The aerosol release of a pathogen during a bioterrorist incident may not always be caught on environmental sensors - it may be too small, may consist of a preparation that is coarse and heavy (and consequently precipitates quickly) or may simply… read more
    … Further Information: Jaideep Ray, jairay@ca.sandia.gov www.caip.rutgers.edu/~jaray Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;2:24 mailto:jairay@ca.sandia.gov http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/%7Ejaray Inferring outbreak …
  • Evaluation of Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance Data by ICD-9 Code: Is There a Correlation between Chief Complaint and Final Emergency Department Diagnosis for Early Detection of Influenza-like Illness?

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    Syndromic surveillance aims to decrease the time to detection of an outbreak compared to traditional surveillance methods. Emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance systems vary in their methodology and complexity and are usually based on… read more
    … surveillance and bioterroism-related epidemics. 6 www.cdc.gov/flu Further information: larissa@gwu.edu … Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;2:20 http://www.cdc.gov/flu mailto:larissa@gwu.edu …
  • Monitoring Staphylococcus Infection Trends with Biosurveillance Data

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    Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a leading cause of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI). Until recently, S. aureus pneumonia has been considered primarily a nosocomial infection, and was reported… read more
    … December 2006--January 2007. MMWR 2007;56;325-329. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5614a1.htm. Accessed … Associated with Influenza. epiTRENDS 2008;13(3). http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehsphl/epitrends/08-epitrends/08-03- …
  • Learning Outbreak Regions for Bayesian Spatial Biosurveillance

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    This work incorporates model learning into a Bayesian framework for outbreak detection. Our method learns the spatial characteristics of each outbreak type from a small number of labeled training examples, assuming a generative outbreak model with… read more
    … Information: Daniel B. Neill, neill@cs.cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~neill Advances in Disease Surveillance 2008;5:45 mailto:neill@cs.cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~neill …