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Cloud Computing for Syndromic Surveillance
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Two significant barriers to greater use of syndromic surveillance techniques are computational time and software complexity. Computational time refers to the time for many methods (for example, scan statistics and AMOEBA statistics) to create… read more -
in silico Surveillance: Highly detailed agent-based models for surveillance system evaluation and design
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Modern public health surveillance systems have great potential for improving public health. However, evaluating the performance of surveillance systems is challenging because examples of baseline disease distribution in the population are limited to… read more -
Using Syndromic Surveillance to assist in a meningitis outbreak investigation
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Beginning on March 13, 2011, ACDC experienced an unusual increase in reported bacterial meningitis cases in Los Angeles (LA) County. Early in the investigation, there were few epidemiological links between the cases. Three cases were homeless; two… read more -
Distributing Countermeasures for All Hazards Events and Reporting their Utilizations
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Description: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works to save lives and protect people during major public health events. In an effort to support these processes, CDC established the Countermeasure Tracking Systems (CTS), which is… read more -
Use of Near-Real–Time Data to Inform Underage Drinking Surveillance in Nebraska
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Underage drinking is a significant public health problem in the United States as well as in Nebraska1-2. Alcohol consumption among underage youth accounts for approximately 5,000 deaths each year in the United States, including motor vehicle crash… read more -
Mining Intensive Care Vitals for Leading Indicators of Adverse Health Events
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The status of each Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patient is routinely monitored and a number of vital signs are recorded at sub-second frequencies which results in large amounts of data. We propose an approach to transform this stream of raw vital… read more -
Utilizing the 'Crowd Trial' for Pharmacovigilance: a case report
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Singulair (MONTELUKAST SODIUM) is a Leukotriene receptor antagonist, indicated to prevent asthma attacks in adults and children. It is also used to relieve allergies in adults and children. Singulair was approved by the FDA in February 20, 1998. In… read more -
Leveraging the 'Wisdom of the Crowd' as a BioSurveillance tool
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With the proliferation of social networks, the web has become a warehouse of patient discussions and reports, estimated at 10 billion records and growing at a rate of 40 percent per year. First Life Research, Ltd. (FLR), has searched and… read more