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Utility of Potential Misdiagnoses in Predicting Foodborne Outbreaks
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Reliable detection and accurate scoping of outbreaks of foodborne illness are the keys to effective mitigation of their impacts. However, relatively small number of persons affected and underreporting, challenge the reliability of surveillance… read more -
Utilization of Emergency Department Data for Drug Overdose Surveillance in North Carolina
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In North Carolina there has been an escalation of poisoning deaths. In 2011, the number of fatal poisonings was 1,368 deaths, with 91% classified as drug overdoses with the majority of those due to opioid analgesics.[1] Far greater numbers of drug… read more -
Validation of Analytic Methods for Combining Evidence Sources in Biosurveillance
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Recent years' informatics advances have increased availability of various sources of health-monitoring information to agencies responsible for disease surveillance. These sources differ in clinical relevance and reliability, and range from… read more -
Validation of Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Respiratory Syndrome using Electronic Health Records
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Effective and valid surveillance of syndromes can be extremely useful in the early detection of outbreaks and disease trends. However, medical chart checks without patient identifiers and lack of diagnoses in A08 data has made validation difficult.… read more -
Validity of the Surveillance Quality Indicators - Timeliness and Completeness - in Surveillance Systems with Variable Data Quality
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India is one of the global Ãhot-spotsà for emergence and re-emergence of pathogens and propagation of those that are drug resistant. Disease surveillance gained momentum in India only after the outbreaks of cholera in Delhi in 1988 and plague in… read more -
Village Doctors' Acceptability to a Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural China
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Emphasis has been placed on the improvement of existing surveillance systems and developing innovative new surveillance systems around the world after the events of 9/11 in 2001, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003. Investments have not… read more -
Discover the 2013 ISDS Conference
Content Type: Webinar
Whether you are planning on attending the ISDS Conference for the first time this December or you have been attending since 2002, the ISDS Scientific Program Committee invites you to discover the 2013 ISDS Conference! This webinar will highlight the… read more -
Using Sydromic Surveillance to Track E-cigarette Related Emergency Department Visits
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The North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) investigated the feasibility of using syndromic surveillance (SyS) data to identify health care visits due to electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use. E-cigarettes have been associated with injuries and… read more