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UPDATE: Bird Flu, the Media and Syndromic Surveillance, 2006-7
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While mass media coverage of bird flu often provides specific information that may prevent or contain the disease, it is often less than ideal; the public may become fearful and panic at the news of a potential outbreak of bird… read more -
Use of Clinical Laboratory Results for Military Medical Surveillance: The Health Level 7 Experience
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Medical surveillance in the military can be improved through the use of clinical laboratory results collected within the Military Health System. This presentation describes an effort to establish Electronic Laboratory Reporting in the military using… read more -
Use of Epidemiological Knowledge to Create Syndromic Surveillance Reports
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Syndromic surveillance is an investigational approach used to monitor trends of illness in communities. It relies on pre-diagnostic health data rather than laboratory-confirmed clinical diagnoses. Its primary purpose is to detect… read more -
Use of Final Diagnosis Data for Surveillance of Respiratory Syncytial Virus
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The BioSense system receives patient level clinical data from > 370 hospitals and 1100 ambulatory care Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs medical facilities. Visits are assigned as appropriate to 78 sub-syndromes… read more -
Use of Google Earth to Facilitate GIS-Based Decision Support Systems for Arthropod-Borne Diseases
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Arthropod-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, Chagas disease, filariasis, leishmaniasis, and trypanosomiasis place tremendous public health burdens upon developing countries. The operational value of Decision Support Systems for… read more -
Use of Informatics for Understanding Disease Activity in Community
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Centre for Health Protection (CHP) plans to conduct a pilot project in developing a syndromic surveillance system using data from Emergency Departments (ED) in Hong Kong. This is part of the Communicable Disease Information System initiative, which… read more -
Use of Surveillance Data to Measure the Impact of Viral Infections among Young Children
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Respiratory viruses cause substantial morbidity and costly resource utilization among young children, especially during the winter months. Accurate estimates of the impact of these viruses are important in guiding prevention efforts… read more -
Use of Syndromic Data for Surveillance of Hurricane-Related Injuries in Miami-Dade County, FL
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In 2005, three hurricanes made landfall in Florida, with Hurricane Wilma having the most severe impact on Miami-Dade County. Syndromic surveillance is typically used to detect bioterrorism or natural disease outbreaks before… read more