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Ensuring the Week Goes Smoothly - Improving Daily Surveillance Visualization
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Real-time syndromic surveillance requires daily surveillance of a range of health data sources. Most real-time data sources from health care systems exhibit large day of the week fluctuations as service provision and patient behaviour varies by day… read more -
Substance Abuse Among Youth in Miami-Dade County, 2005-2007
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The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 9th to 12th graders in Miami-Dade County public schools found that 69.7% of students tried alcohol, 28.3% tried marijuana, and 6.3% tried cocaine in their lifetime. Results also showed that… read more -
Outbreak Report: Opioid-Related Overdose - Huntington, West Virginia, August 2016
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This report, published January 27, 2017 by the Office of Epidemiology and Prevention Services with the West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources, is an outbreak report developed in response to an opioid-related overdose incident that… read more -
Super Bowl Surveillance: A Practical Exercise in Inter-Jurisdictional Public Health Information Sharing
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When the Chicago Bears met the Indianapolis Colts for Super Bowl XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public health departments have instituted heightened… read more -
Support Vector Machines for Syndromic Surveillance
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Early and reliable detection of anomalies is a critical challenge in disease surveillance. Most surveillance systems collect data from multiple data streams but the majority of monitoring is performed at univariate time series… read more -
Surveillance for Health Effects Secondary to an Expected Rise in Air Pollution
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Every year the United States generates close to 300 million scrap tires. Due to their high energygenerating capacity, tires can be used as a fuel source (tire-derived fuel, or TDF). In 2006 a paper mill located less than 3 miles… read more -
Surveillance for Influenza Using the Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance and Hospital Admissions Syndromic Surveillance Systems, Connecticut, 2004-2007
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In Connecticut, several syndromic surveillance systems have been established to detect and monitor potential public health threats: 1) the hospital admissions syndromic surveillance (HASS) system in 2001; and 2) the emergency… read more -
Surveillance in the Cloud: A New Platform for Disease Search and Situational Awareness
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Major challenges in syndromic surveillance today include lack of standardization in syndrome definitions and limited ability to detect outbreaks of specific and rare diseases. To generate situational awareness surveillance results… read more