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Establishing a Syndromic Surveillance System Using Chief-Complaint Data at Emergency Department of One Regional Hospital in Taipei City to Detect Infectious Disease Outbreaks
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Facing public health threats of bioterrorism and emerging infectious diseases (EID), the traditional passive surveillance system is not efficient and outmoded. Evidences reveal that several newly developed syndromic surveillance… read more -
Estimating Hospital Admissions for Influenza Using Emergency Department (ED) Syndromic Surveillance Data, New York City
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An important goal of influenza surveillance is to provide public health decisionmakers with timely estimates of the severity of community-wide influenza. One potential indicator is the number of influenza hospitalizations. In New… read more -
Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series #3: Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition for Monitoring Opioid Related ED visits and Drug Overdose Surveillance Using Death Record, Poison Control, and ED Data
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This is the third installment of the ISDS Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series, held on July 27, 2017. Click here for Part 1 of the Opioid… read more -
Estimation And Validation of An Outbreak Simulator
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In previous work, we described a non-disease-specific outbreak simulator for the evaluation of outbreak detection algorithms. This Template-Driven Simulator generates disease patterns using user-defined template functions.… read more -
Evaluating Outbreak-Detection Methods Using Simulations: Volume Under the Time-ROC Surface
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There are many proposed methods of identifying outbreaks of disease in surveillance data. However, there is little agreement about appropriate ways to choose amongst them. One common basis for comparison is simulating outbreaks and adding the simu… read more -
Evaluating Syndromic Signals from Ambulatory Care Data in Four States
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The utility of syndromic surveillance systems to augment health departments’ traditional surveillance for naturally occurring disease has not been prospectively evaluated. Objective In this interim… read more -
Evaluating the Active Surveillance of Scrapie in the EU
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The abattoir and the fallen stock surveys constitute the active surveillance component aimed at improving the detection of scrapie across the EU. Previous studies have suggested the occurrence of significant differences in the… read more -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Using Syndromic Surveillance to Identify a Neuro-Invasive Disease Outbreak in Los Angeles County
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In November of 2001 a syndromic surveillance system was established in Los Angeles (LA) County to analyze emergency department (ED) chief complaints in select hospitals. Chief complaints were analyzed and categorized into a syndrome (rash,… read more