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Monitoring the Vital Signs of Community Health - The Pyramid Syndromic Surveillance Project
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Syndromic surveillance systems have long been an important part of the public health arena. The long standing goal of early detection of disease outbreak has gained new urgency and requires a broader spectrum in the era of… read more -
Predicting Acute Respiratory Infections from Participatory Data
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ARIs have epidemic and pandemic potential. Prediction of presence of ARIs from individual signs and symptoms in existing studies have been based on clinically-sourced data. Clinical data generally represents the most severe cases, and those from… read more -
Mortality Surveillance during a Large Chikungunya Outbreak Using a Syndromic Surveillance System
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Following the heat wave that scorched France in August 2003 a national daily gathering of mortality data was decided in link with the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee). Such gathering is based on Public Records Office… read more -
Mulitregional CUSUM Surveillance
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Monitoring sales of over-the-counter products is becoming increasingly common for purposes of public health surveillance. Sales data for anti-diarrheal medications have been used to monitor outbreaks of waterborne Cryptosporidium outbreaks. An… read more -
Multi-Agency and Hospital, Syndromic Surveillance System in Montana
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In the aftermath of September 11th, 2001, the potential for subsequent bioterrorism attacks and more recently, the increased awareness of the threat of Avian flu and other communicable diseases, has compelled the Montana… read more -
Multi-Method Comparison of Detecting Common Events of Public Health Interest: a Multi-Site, Multi-Stream Simulation Study
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Existing statistical methods can perform well in detecting simulated bioterrorism events. However, these methods have not been well-evaluated for detection of the type of respiratory and gastrointestinal events of greatest… read more -
Multi-Sectored Approach to Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System
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In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more -
Multi-Syndrome Analysis of Time Series: A New Concept for Outbreak Investigation
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Temporal anomaly detection is a key component of real time surveillance. Today, despite the abundance of temporal information on multiple syndromes, multivariate investigation of temporal anomalies remains under-explored. Traditionally, an outbreak… read more