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A web-based platform to support text mining of clinical reports for public health surveillance
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PyConTextKit is a web-based platform that extracts entities from clinical text and provides relevant metadata - for example, whether the entity is negated or hypothetical - using simple lexical clues occurring in the window of text surrounding the… read more -
Augmenting Surveillance to Minimize the Burden of Norovirus-Like Illness in Ontario: Using TeleHealth Ontario Data to Detect the Onset of Community Activity
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Norovirus, commonly referred to as the winter vomiting disease, is the most common cause of gastroenteritis worldwide, with the total number of cases reported per year in Ontario second only to the common cold. The disease is highly infectious,… read more -
Norovirus disease surveillance using Google search data
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While norovirus is the leading cause of gastroenteritis in the United States, leading to an estimated 21 million illnesses per year [1], timely surveillance data are limited. Google Insights for Search (GIfS) is a new application that allows users… read more -
Risk Factors for Norovirus Outbreaks Associated with Attack Rate and Genogroup
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Noroviruses are the single most common cause of epidemic, non-bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. NoVs cause an estimated 68-80% of gastroenteritis outbreaks in industrialized countries and possibly more in developing countries. … read more -
Scalable Detection of Irregular Disease Clusters Using Soft Compactness Constraints
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The spatial scan statistic [1] detects significant spatial clusters of disease by maximizing a likelihood ratio statistic F(S) over a large set of spatial regions, typically constrained by shape. The fast localized scan [2] enables scalable… read more -
Pandemic H1N1-Related ICU Rates According to Race/Ethnic Groups in Massachusetts
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Unpublished statewide 2009 H1N1 epidemiological data suggests that rates of lab-confirmed H1N1-related hospitalization were three to four times higher in Black and Hispanic populations compared to White, non-Hispanic populations (Alfred DeMaria,… read more -
The Spatial and Temporal Anatomy of Seasonal Influenza, 1972-2007
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Seasonality has a major effect on the spatial and temporal (i.e. spatiotemporal) dynamics of natural systems and their populations (1). Although the seasonality of influenza in temperate countries is widely recognized, inter-regional spread of… read more -
Surveillance of poison center data using the National Poison Data System web service
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Oregon Health Authority (OHA), in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, recently implemented Oregon ESSENCE, an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance system. One way to strengthen syndromic surveillance… read more