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Using Poison Center Syndromic Surveillance for Environmental Health Signals Detection
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North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the Web-based early event detection and timely public health surveillance system in the North Carolina Public Health Information Network. At… read more -
Using Public School Absentee Data to Enhance Syndromic Surveillance in Miami-Dade County, 2007
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The Miami-Dade County Health Department currently utilizes Emergency Department based Syndromic surveillance data, 911 Call Center data, and more recently Public School Absenteeism data. Daily monitoring of school absenteeism… read more -
Using quad trees to generate grid points for applications in geographic disease surveillance
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In this study, we compare two methods of generating grid points to enable efficient geographic cluster detection when the original geographical data are prohibitively numerous. One method generates uniform grid points, and the other employs quad… read more -
Using School Sentinel Sites for the Early Detection of Influenza
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As public health surveillance is becoming more and more prevalent, new sources of data collection are more evident. One such data source is school absenteeism. By monitoring the symptoms of illness recorded when students are… read more -
Using Syndromic Data to Investigate Gastrointestinal Illness Associated with Water Quality Complaints in Houston
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In February of 2007, the Bureau of Epidemiology (BOE) received a request from Houston Department of Public Works to investigate a possible rise in gastrointestinal (GI) illness associated with complaints about poor water quality in a… read more -
A Timeliness Study of Disease Surveillance Data Post ELR Implementation in Houston
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Since 2009, Houston Health Department (HHD) uses an electronic disease surveillance system (Maven) to receive ELRs from reporting facilities in the Houston jurisdiction. Currently, two large hospital systems, a blood bank, two large commercial labs… read more -
Using Syndromic Surveillance Data for Enhanced Case-Capture of Conditions of Public Health Interest
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Syndromic surveillance can be a useful tool for the early recognition of outbreaks and trends in emergency department (ED) data. In addition, as a more timely data source than traditional disease reporting, syndromic data may also be… read more -
Using the Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) to Analyze Influenza Sentinel Provider Surveillance and Influenza Rapid Test Reports
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The South Carolina (SC) Department of Health and Environmental Control uses multiple surveillance systems to monitor influenza activity from October to May of each year, including participating in the U.S. Influenza Sentinel Providers Surveillance… read more