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Implementing an outbreak/event tracking monitor for public health
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Utah has a centralized State Health Department and 12 Local Health Departments situated throughout the state. Coordination of outbreaks or events that crosses jurisdictions has been historically difficult. Utah has not had a functional NEDSS-… read more… Mottice et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 54 … -
Analytic disease surveillance methodology based on emulation of experienced human monitors
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Recently published studies evaluate statistical alerting methods for disease surveillance based on detection of modeled signals in a data background of either authentic historical data or randomized samples. Differences in regional… read more… Burkom et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 77 … -
Classification of errors for quality assurance in the emerging infections program influenza hospitalizations surveillance system
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Emerging Infections Program (EIP) monitors and studies many infectious diseases, including influenza. In 10 states in the US, information is collected for hospitalized … read more… Pérez et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 55 … -
The National Biosurveillance Integration System
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Objective The National Biosurveillance Integration System (NBIS) is a consortium of federal agencies, whose joint objective is to enhance the identification, location, characterization, and tracking of biological… read more… H Park et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 60 … -
A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival
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One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more… Burkom et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 13 … -
Utilization of Public Health Surveillance Data for Early Detection and Mitigation of Drinking Water Contamination
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Safe drinking water is essential for all communities. Intentional or unintentional contamination of drinking water requires water utilities and local public health to act quickly. The Water Security (WS) initiative of the U.S.… read more… 1. EPA. WaterSentinel System Architecture, 2005. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/watersecurity/pubs/ … -
Utilization of the Syndromic Surveillance Framework for Detection of Heat-Related illnesses
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The use of syndromic surveillance in Tulsa County began as an attempt to identify symptoms associated with Category A agents, namely Anthrax. The underlying premise for adopting the system was the hope that an astute clinician,… read more… OR Kelly VanBuskirk, kvanbuskirk@tulsa-health.org www.tulsa-health.org Advances in Disease Surveillance … -
The SAS/SaTScan Macro Accessory for Cartography (SMAC) Package
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SaTScan is a program often used for space-time cluster detection. In order to run SaTScan, the data must be in a pre-specified text format. Once the input files are in the correct format, the typical user opens SaTScan, chooses… read more… for the spatial and space-time scan statistics. 2004, www.satscan.org. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006;1:2 …