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A Value-Driven Framework For The Evaluation Of Biosurveillance Systems
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Evaluation and strengthening of biosurveillance systems is acomplex process that involves sequential decision steps, numerous stakeholders, and requires accommodating multiple and conflicting objectives. Biosurveillance evaluation, the initiating… read more -
Using Change Point Detection for Monitoring the Quality of Aggregate Data
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Data consisting of counts or indicators aggregated from multiple sources pose particular problems for data quality monitoring when the users of the aggregate data are blind to the individual sources. This arises when agencies wish to share data but… read more -
An Open Source Web Services Toolkit for Event Detection Algorithms
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As major disease outbreaks are rare, empirical evaluation of statistical methods for outbreak detection requires the use of modified or completely simulated health event data in addition to real data. Comparisons of different techniques will be more… read more -
Systematic Comparison of Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance
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Varied approaches have been used by syndromic surveillance systems for aberration detection. However, the performance of these methods has been evaluated only across a small range of epidemic characteristics. Objective… read more -
Traditional and Mobile Public Health Alert Communications with Health Care Providers
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The effectiveness of emergency preparedness and response systems depends, in part, on the effectiveness of communication between agencies and individuals involved in emergency response, including health care providers who play a significant role in… read more -
Accrued – An R Package for Visualizing Data Quality for Aggregate Surveillance Data
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The utility of specific sources of data for surveillance, and the quality of those data, are an ingoing issue in public health(1). Syndromic surveillance is typically conducted as a secondary use of data collected as part of routine clinical… read more -
Propagating the Effects of Missing Data Sources in a Surveillance System
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A common problem in syndromic surveillance using ED department data is temporary gaps in the data received from individual ED departments caused by delays in receiving the data. Currently most syndromic surveillance systems provide information… read more -
Some Interactive Data Exploration Tools for Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes several interactive data exploration tools for examining surveillance data.