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Early Identification of Salmonella Cases Using Syndromic Surveillance
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On June 7, 2008, federal food protection and public health agencies alerted consumers of a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul infections. As of June 30, 2008, 851 persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same… read more… 1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/ Further Information: Heather Brown … -
Empirical/Asymptotic P-Values for Monte Carlo-Based Hypothesis Testing: An Application to Cluster Detection Using the Scan Statistic
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SaTScan is a freely available software that uses the scan statistic to detect clusters in space, time or space-time. SaTScan uses Monte Carlo hypothesis testing in order to produce a p-value for the null hypothesis that no… read more… for the spatial and space-time scan statistics. 2004, www.satscan.org. [2] Kulldorff, M, A spatial scan statistic. … -
Essential Requirements for Effective Advanced Disease Surveillance
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Advanced surveillance systems require expertise from the fields of medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, and information technology to develop a surveillance application that will automatically acquire, archive, process and present data to the user… read more… Department Chief Complaint Records, PHIN 2005, http://www.cdc.gov/phin/05conference/05-12-05/8A_Feighner.pdf. [2] … -
Can Monitoring Telehealth Ontario Respiratory Call Volume be a Component of an Effective Public Health Influenza Surveillance Strategy?
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Influenza epidemics occur seasonally, impose a high economic burden on the health care system, and are responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality (1). The past century has seen three influenza A pandemics with variable severity. The recent… read more… Health Organization 2003;Available from: URL: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs211/en/ (2) Girard MP, … -
Health Effects of LA county Wildfires in October 2007
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Determine if poor air quality resulting from wildfires could be measured in the general population by monitoring smoke-related respiratory Emergency Department (EDs) visits.… Smoke A Guide for Public Health Officials URL: http://www.arb.ca.gov/smp/progdev/pubeduc/wfgv8.pdf Advances in … -
Improving Detection Timeliness by Modeling and Correcting for Data Availability Delays
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The performance of even the most advanced syndromic surveillance systems can be undermined if the monitored data is delayed before it arrives into the system. In such cases, an outbreak may be detected only after it is too late for appropriate… read more… component of the PHIN Prepared- ness specifications. www.cdc.gov/phin/preparedness/eed.html [2] Reis, B.Y., … -
Mining Pattern Model of Influenza Surveillance
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This paper presents an investigation using data mining techniques to model patterns of influenza from positive case demographics, symptoms and laboratory tests.… system. Mil Med. 2000 Jul;165(7 Suppl 2):52-6. [5] www.cs.waikato.ac.nz Advances in Disease Surveillance … -
A Novel, Context-Sensitive Approach to Anonymizing Spatial Surveillance Data: Impact on Outbreak Detection
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The use of spatially-based methods and algorithms in epidemiology and surveillance presents privacy challenges for researchers and public health agencies. We describe a novel method for anonymizing individuals in public health datasets, by… read more… Information: Christopher Cassa, cassa@mit.edu http://www.chip.org/ Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006;1:10 …