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Mixture Likelihood Ratio Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak Detection
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This article describes the methodology and results of Team #134Ãs submission to the 2007 ISDS Technical Contest. -
Modeling Clinician Detection Time of a Disease Outbreak Due to Inhalational Anthrax
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We developed a probabilistic model of how clinicians are expected to detect a disease outbreak due to an outdoor release of anthrax spores, when the clinicians only have access to traditional clinical information (e.g., no computer-based alerts). We… read more -
BioSense 2.0 Webinar: Creating Syndrome Definitions Using RStudio
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When public health practitioners use BioSense 2.0, they can view and analyze data on a variety of predetermined syndromes from infectious diseases (such as influenza) to injuries. However, some users may want to use tools to explore new and… read more -
Components of Inter-Hospital Variability in Chief Complaints Assigned to a Gastrointestinal Syndrome
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Patientâs chief complaint (CC) is often used for syndromic surveillance for bioterrorism and outbreak detection, but little is known about the inter-hospital variability in the sensitivity of this method. Objective: Our objective was to… read more -
Epi Archive: automated data collection of notifiable disease data
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Most countries do not report national notifiable disease data in a machine-readable format. Data are often in the form of a file that contains text, tables and graphs summarizing weekly or monthly disease counts. This presents a problem when… read more -
Consultative Meeting on Chief Complaint Classifiers and Standardized Syndromic Definitions
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We will convene a consultative meeting on chief complaint classifiers and standardized syndromic definitions in Pittsburgh, PA, from September 24-25, -
Contact Tracing in Asymptomatic Diseases Under Elimination
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This study analyzes the critical tracing fraction (fc) to eliminate diseases like rubella when both asymptomatic and symptomatic cases are considered. -
Correlation between Alerts Generated from Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Data Sources and Traditional Data Sources
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of electronic medical record (EMR) data sources to improve the detection performance of a syndromic surveillance system. This analysis involves examining the temporal correlation between alerts… read more