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System Design Model for Versatile Outbreak Surveillance
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The ASTER system aims at providing an integrated real time epidemiological status of all the French Forces deployed abroad1. But, unlike usual surveillance systems, ASTER must cover several target populations exposed to different biological and… read more -
Technical Challenges of Syndromic Surveillance System Deployment in a Health Information Exchange
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Adoption of electronic medical records is on the rise, due to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act and meaningful use incentives. Simultaneously, numerous HIE initiatives provide data sharing flexibility to… read more -
The ALERT Algorithm: How to Simply Define a Period of Elevated Disease Incidence
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Despite the number of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths from influenza each year, developing the ability to predict the timing of these outbreaks has remained elusive. Public health practitioners have lacked a reliable, easy-to-implement… read more -
The Effect of Training of School Physicians on Their Knowledge Regarding Surveillance in Alexandria
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Schools inherently foster the transmission of infections from person to person because they are a group setting in which people are in close contact and share supplies and equipment. Surveillance is important in schools and actions that can help… read more -
The Evolution of the WHO/NREVSS Influenza Surveillance System: The Challenges and Opportunities that Accompany Electronic Laboratory Data
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The Influenza Division (ID) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains the WHO/NREVSS surveillance system, a network of laboratories in the U.S. that report influenza testing results. This system has seen many changes during… read more -
The Growth and Variation of Symptoms of Influenza-like Illness: An Application of the Linear Growth Curve Model in Syndromic Surveillance in Rural China
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Symptoms of influenza-like illness (ILI) were reported daily by health workers via the integrated syndromic surveillance system in rural China (ISSC)(1). Objective To analyze the growth and variation of ILI reports using… read more -
The Use of Open Source Software to Enhance Public Health Initiatives
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OSS is rapidly becoming part of more public health applications. Mobile health (mHealth) initiatives and the need for electronic processes to support healthcare (eHealth) provide particularly good examples of government use of open source software.… read more -
Tool for Detection of Spatio-temporal Clusters of Legionellosis in Toronto: The Legionella Alert Mapping Program (LAMP)
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Legionellosis is a respiratory disease that can lead to serious illness such as pneumonia, and can even result in death. Since 2010, increased reports of legionellosis have been received in Toronto during the summer months and led to a five-fold… read more