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Evaluating Pandemic Influenza Surveillance and Response Systems in Developing Countries: Framework and Pilot Application
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A pandemic caused by influenza A/H5N1 or another novel strain could kill millions of people and devastate economies worldwide. Recent computer simulations suggest that an emerging influenza pandemic might be contained in Southeast Asia through rapid… read more -
Incorporating Water Security into Syndromic Surveillance
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Although rare in the US, the CDC reports 13-14 drinking-water-related disease outbreaks per year, affecting an average of about 1000 people. The US EPA has determined that the distribution system is the most vulnerable component… read more -
A Demonstration of Meaningfully Using the ISDS Recommended Data Elements
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National Health IT Initiatives are helping to advance the state of automated disease surveillance through incentives to health care facilities to implement electronic medical records and provide data to health departments and use collaborative… read more -
The Evolution of ESSENCE
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In development for over fourteen years, ESSENCE is a disease surveillance system utilized by public health stakeholders at city, county, state, regional, national, and global levels. The system was developed by a team from the Johns Hopkins… read more -
Linking Public Health and Healthcare Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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A number of syndromic surveillance systems include tools that quickly identify potentially large disease outbreak events. However, the high falsepositive rate continues to be a problem in all of these systems. Our earlier work… read more -
Synthesizing the American Health Information Community’s Minimum Data Set
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One of the challenges facing developers and users of automated disease surveillance systems is being able to accurately evaluate the performance of their systems for the wide variety of public health threats that are possible. A… read more -
The Development of Virtual Data for Syndromic Surveillance Exercises
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On 27 April 2005, a simulated bioterrorist event—the aerosolized release of Francisella tularensis in the men’s room of luxury box seats at a sports stadium—was used to exercise the disease surveillance capability of the National Capital Region (NCR… read more -
The Tradeoffs Driving Policy and Research Decisions in Biosurveillance
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Every public health monitoring operation faces important decisions in its design phase. These include information sources to be used, the aggregation of data in space and time, the filtering of data records for required… read more