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  • Anticipatory surveillance for mass gatherings: a novel application of mass media surveillance

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    Public health and medical research on mass gatherings (MGs) are emerging disciplines. MGs present surveillance challenges quite different from routine outbreak monitoring, including prompt detection of outbreaks of an unusual … read more
    … Mekaru et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 30 British Colombia experienced a … Health Threats Journal SR Mekaru et al. 2011, 4:s39 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 31 …
  • Comparison of respiratory, febrile and influenza-like illness syndromes to detect laboratory-reported H1N1 and RSV, Influenza Season 2009–10, New York City

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    The New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene monitors visits daily from 49 of 54 NYC emergency departments (EDs), capturing 95% of all ED visits. ED visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) have reflected influenza… read more
    … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 64 the sentinel ED visits, 24,100 (9%) … Health Threats Journal E Westheimer et al. 2011, 4:s105 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 65 …
  • Comparison of the US outpatient influenza-like illness surveillance network and the Google Flu Trends from 2008 to 2010

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    http://Google.org developed a regression model that used the volume of influenza-related search queries best correlated with the proportion of outpatient visits related to influenza-like illness (ILI) model to estimate the level of ILI… read more
    … Fowlkes et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 30 as August 2009 through April 2010. A … Health Threats Journal A Fowlkes et al. 2011, 4:s131 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 31 …
  • Integrating medical examiner data in Utah

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    The Office of the Medical Examiner (OME) is a statewide system for investigation of sudden and unexpected death in Utah. OME, in the Utah Department of Health (UDOH), certified over 2000 of the 13,920 deaths in Utah in 2008. … read more
    … and T Grey.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 23 The UMED system is currently … Health Threats Journal J Duncan and T Grey. 2011, 4:s128 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 24 …
  • Integrating Medical Examiner Data in Utah

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    The Office of the Medical Examiner (OME) is a statewide system for investigation of sudden and unexpected death in Utah. OME, in the Utah Department of Health (UDOH), certified over 2000 of the 13,920 deaths in Utah in 2008. Information from OME… read more
    … and T Grey.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 23 The UMED system is currently … Health Threats Journal J Duncan and T Grey. 2011, 4:s128 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 24 …
  • The influence of address errors on detecting outbreaks of campylobacteriosis

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    Mandatory notification to public health of priority communicable diseases (CDs) is a cornerstone of disease prevention and control programs. Increasingly, the addresses of CD cases are used for spatial monitoring and cluster detection… read more
    … Zinszer et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 6868 analyses. The magnitude of address … Health Threats Journal K Zinszer et al. 2011, 4:s59 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 6969 …
  • Tracking emergency department (ED) patients with gastrointestinal symptoms during a Norovirus epidemic in Miami-Dade

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    From January to March 2010, thirteen outbreaks of Norovirus infection were reported to the Epidemiology, Disease Control and Immunization Service (EDC-IS), up from four outbreaks in the entire 2008 and same number during 2009. … read more
    … Borroto et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 11 occurred only among adults, and … Health Threats Journal R Borroto et al. 2011, 4:s121 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 12 …
  • Use of Final Diagnosis Data for Surveillance of Respiratory Syncytial Virus

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    The BioSense system receives patient level clinical data from > 370 hospitals and 1100 ambulatory care Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs medical facilities. Visits are assigned as appropriate to 78 sub-syndromes… read more
    … CDC. Respiratory Syncytial Virus. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/respiratory/rsvfeat.htm. … Surveillance System (NREVSS). Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/nrevss/. Accessed July 11, …