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The Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System: A Distributed Surveillance Model
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The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) established the Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System (CCDSS) in 2009 to facilitate national estimates of chronic disease prevalence, incidence, and health outcomes. The CCDSS uses population-basedā¦ read more -
The Evaluation of Triage Notes Using ESSENCE-FL for Active Case Finding of Zika
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The Florida Department of Health (DOH) utilizes the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL) as its statewide syndromic surveillance system. ESSENCE-FL comprises of chief complaint data fromā¦ read more -
The importance of age-specific data in routine syndromic surveillance
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When monitoring public health incidents using syndromic surveillance systems, Public Health England (PHE) uses the age of the presenting patient as a key indicator to further assess the severity, impact of the incident, and to provide intelligenceā¦ read more -
The prevalence of rabies cases in the territory of Azerbaijan, January 2015-June 2016
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Rabies is an infectious disease which was and remains to be one of the most serious diseases of all species of hematothermal animals and humans, in many regions of the world. The epizootic situation on rabies in the Republic of Azerbaijan has beenā¦ read more -
The test-negative design for estimating influenza vaccination effectiveness
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The test-negative design is a variation of the case-control study, in which patients are enrolled in outpatient clinics (and/or hospitals) based on a clinical case definition such as influenza-like illness (ILI). Patients are then tested forā¦ read more -
Towards Tracking Opium Related Discussions in Social Media
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In recent years, the use of social media has increased at an unprecedented rate. For example, the popular social media platform Reddit (http://www.reddit.com) had 83 billion page views from over 88,000 active sub-communities (subreddits) in 2015.ā¦ read more -
Tracking Health Effects of Wildfires: The Oregon ESSENCE Wildfire Pilot Project
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Wildfires occur annually in Oregon, and the health risks of wildfire smoke are well documented1. Before implementing syndromic surveillance through Oregon ESSENCE, assessing the health effects of wildfires in real time was very challenging. Summerā¦ read more -
Coordinated Enhanced Surveillance with Healthcare Entities for Mass Gathering Events
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Mass gatherings can result in morbidity and mortality from communicable and non-communicable diseases, injury, and bioterrorism. Therefore, it is important to identify event-related visits as opposed to community-related visits when conductingā¦ read more