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A Practitioner-Driven Research Agenda for Syndromic Surveillance
Content Type: Journal Article
ABSTRACT Syndromic surveillance has expanded since 2001 in both scope and geographic reach and has benefited from research studies adapted from numerous disciplines. The practice of syndromic surveillance continues to evolve rapidly. The… read more -
Somebody’s Poisoned the Waterhole: ASPCA Poison Control Center Data to Identify Animal Health Risks
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The APCC hotline fields daily calls regarding potential animal intoxications from the US, its territories, and Canada. We explored the value of these data for identifying increased occurrences of intoxications related to livestock and poultry… read more -
A Term-based Approach to Asyndromic Determination of Significant Case Clusters
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Biosurveillance systems commonly depend on free-text chief complaints (CC)s for timely situational awareness. However, diagnosis codes may not be available soon enough and may have uncertain value because they are assigned for billing purposes… read more -
Assessment of National Poison Data System Algorithms to identify Public Health Events
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NPDS is a near real-time surveillance system and national database operated by the American Association of Poison Control Centers. NPDS receives records of all calls made to the 55 regional US poison centers (PCs). The Centers for Disease Control… read more -
Effective Collaboration Models for Statiscians and Public Health Departments
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Public health departments need enhanced surveillance tools for population monitoring, and external researchers have expertise and methods to provide these tools. However, collaboration with potential solution developers and students in academia,… read more -
Military Real-time Syndromic Surveillance System for Biosurveillance Portal in Korea
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Biosurveillance Portal (BSP) is a web-based enterprise environment that is aimed to facilitate international collaboration, communication, and information-sharing in support of the detection, management, and mitigation of biological events in Korea… read more -
Where do you Find Interesting Biosurveillance Publications?
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To identify the disciplines and journal titles of surveillance-related publications from a wide range of indexed repositories and to draw attention to the publication repository created by the ISDS Research Committee. Introduction… read more -
Real-time Laboratory-Based Influenza Surveillance with Xpert Flu
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Previous studies have demonstrated the benefit of laboratory surveillance and its capability to accurately detect influenza outbreaks earlier than syndromic surveillance. Current laboratory surveillance has an approximate 2-week lag due to… read more