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Surveillance Zones: Geographic Aggregation of Syndromic Data for Improved Response
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When a chemical or biological agent with public health implications is detected in the City of Houston, analysis of syndromic surveillance data is an important tool for investigating the authenticity of the alert, as well as… read more -
Rapid classification of autism for public health surveillance
Content Type: Webinar
This presentation given August 3, 2017 describes work toward applying machine learning methods to CDC’s autism surveillance program. CDC’s population-based autism surveillance is labor-intensive and costly, as it requires clinicians to manually… read more -
Survey of Pre-Clinical Behavior – What Do People Do When They Get Sick?
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The impetus for the development of many first syndromic surveillance systems was the hope of detecting infectious disease outbreaks earlier than with traditional surveillance. Various data sources have been suggested as potential… read more -
Survey of Syndromic Surveillance Uses
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Syndromic surveillance is the surveillance of healthrelated data that precedes diagnosis to detect a disease outbreak or other health related event that warrants a public health response. Though syndromic surveillance is… read more -
SyCo: A Probabilistic Machine Learning Method for Classifying Chief Complaints into Symptom and Syndrome Categories
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Scientists have utilized many chief complaint (CC) classification techniques in biosurveillance including keyword search, weighted keyword search, and naïve Bayes. These techniques may utilize CC-to-syndrome or CC-… read more -
Syndromic Prediction Power: Comparing Covariates and Baselines
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The eleven syndrome classifications for clinical data records monitored by BioSense include rare events such as death or lymphadenitis and also common occurrences such as respiratory infections. BioSense currently uses two statistical methods for… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance of Norovirus Using Sales of Non-Prescription Medications for Gastroenteritis
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Syndromic surveillance using over the counter (OTC) sales has been shown to provide earlier signals of diarrheal and respiratory disease outbreaks than hospital diagnoses. Under normal circumstances, sales patterns of OTC sales… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance and Heat Wave: Is it Working?
Content Type: Abstract
Most of the time, health consequences of heat waves are serious. Heat wave response plans were developed for reducing health effects but even if they are very efficient it is not possible to eliminate all health consequences.… read more