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BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience: New Jersey, November, 2004
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BioSense is a national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiative to improve the nation's capabilities for early event detection and situational awareness. BioSense data includes Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs ambulatory… read more -
Biosurveillance: A Definition, Scope and Description of Current Capability for a National Strategy
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Homeland Security Presidential Directive – 21 (HSPD-21) requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a national biosurveillance capability that provides early warning and situation awareness for urgent public health events.… read more -
Bird Flu: The Media and Syndromic Surveillance
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In the past, the media has served a source of data for syndromic surveillance of infectious disease, whether it is outbreaks of disease in animals or humans resulting in illness or death. More often than not, the reverse is true; data based on… read more -
Burns Reported to the BioSense System During the Independence Day Holiday
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Each year, more than two-thirds of all fireworksrelated injuries occur during June 16-July 16 [1]. During the 2006 July 4th holiday weekend, thousands of people were treated in emergency departments (EDs) for fireworks-related injuries [2]. Over 50… read more -
Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?
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Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more -
Can Internet Searches Provide Useful Data For Public Health Surveillance?
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Internet-based technologies have been used to assist in disease surveillance and reporting. The Public Health Agency of Canada operates the Global Public Health Information Network, credited with early notification of many outbreaks (… read more -
Can Monitoring Telehealth Ontario Respiratory Call Volume be a Component of an Effective Public Health Influenza Surveillance Strategy?
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Influenza epidemics occur seasonally, impose a high economic burden on the health care system, and are responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality (1). The past century has seen three influenza A pandemics with variable severity. The recent… read more -
Can Syndromic Surveillance Data be Useful for Monitoring Respiratory Illness Activity?
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A significant amount of resources and effort have been recently invested in syndromic surveillance systems. However, how these systems complement or compare with traditional public health surveillance systems, such as outbreak reporting, is not… read more