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Extending Comparisons Beyond Time and Space: Looking for Similarities Between Diseases
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Early detection of new diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy is the subject of great interest (Gibbens et al., 2008). Understanding whether a disease is infectious or sporadic becomes essential for the application of control measures.… read more -
Notifiable Disease Reporting among Physicians Practicing in Grenada
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Despite the significance of disease reporting to any health system, Grenada like most countries struggle with underreporting of notifiable diseases by physicians. In order to improve the national disease surveillance system in Grenada, it is… read more -
National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Data Quality Workgroup
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To provide community input on data quality issues and enhance data quality through sharing and testing of scripts. Summary of activities: The Data Quality workgroup has worked to address Data Quality issues through the… read more -
Extensibility in Semantic Web Description of Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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The semantic web is an emerging technology for expressing rich descriptions of a problem domain in the form of ontologies. An ontology provides a domain specific knowledge base… read more -
Fast and Flexible Outbreak Detection by Linear-Time Subset Scanning
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The spatial scan statistic [1] detects significant spatial clusters of disease by maximizing a likelihood ratio statistic over a large set of spatial regions. Typical spatial scan approaches either constrain the search regions to… read more -
Fever as a Measure for Early Detection of Influenza Outbreaks in the Emergency Department
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Emergency Department surveillance methods currently rely on identification of acute illness by tracking chief complaint or ICD9 discharge codes. Newer generation electronic medical records are now capturing additional … read more -
Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor
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With increased penetration of clinical information system products and increased interest in clinical data exchange, a variety of clinician’s notes are becoming available for surveillance. Chief complaints have been studied extensively, and… read more -
Focusing Routine Surveillance Activities for Lyme Disease: Investigation of Exposures in Confirmed Cases of Early Lyme Disease
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Over the past seven years, the number of Lyme Disease (LD) cases in Anne Arundel County has more than doubled, from 84 in 2000 to 196 in 2007, which correlates to CDC findings. It is endemic in 10 states, including … read more