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Evaluating the Performance of a Spatial Scan Statistic Using Simulated Outbreak Characteristics
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Research evaluating the use of spatial data for surveillance purposes is ongoing and evolving. As spatial methods evolve, it is important to characterize their effectiveness in real-world settings. Assessing the performance of… read more -
Evaluating the Validity of ED Visit Data for Biosurveillance
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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) receives a designated set of data elements electronically available from 110 emergency departments (EDs) (98%) on at least a daily basis via… read more -
Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System Based on General Practitioner's Data, SOS Medecins Bordeaux
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To describe and evaluate the SOS Medecins Bordeaux syndromic surveillance system . -
Evaluation of a Systematic Emergency Department Chief Complaint System for Near Real-Time Public Health Surveillance
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To determine the predictive abilities of systematic emergency room chief complaints for the detection of acute infectious diseases in the Winnipeg population. -
Evaluation of Alerting Sparse-Data Streams of Population Healthcare-Seeking Data
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Objective This presentation discusses the problem of detecting small-scale events in biosurveillance data that are relatively sparse in the sense that the median count of monitored time series values is zero. Research goals are to understand… read more -
Evaluation of Body Temperature to Classify Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) in a Syndromic Surveillance System
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This study aims to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity and Positive Predictive Value (PPV) of body temperature measurements > 100.5 F in relationship to laboratory confirmation of influenza and other ILI pathogens. -
Evaluation of Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance Data by ICD-9 Code: Is There a Correlation between Chief Complaint and Final Emergency Department Diagnosis for Early Detection of Influenza-like Illness?
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Syndromic surveillance aims to decrease the time to detection of an outbreak compared to traditional surveillance methods. Emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance systems vary in their methodology and complexity and are usually based on… read more -
Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor for Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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The goal of this project is to compare automated syn-dromic surveillance queries using raw chief complaints to those pre-processed with the Emergency Medical Text Processor (EMT-P) system.