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Integrated spatiotemporal surveillance system: Data, Analysis and Visualization
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Most surveillance methods in the literature focus on temporal aberration detections with data aggregated to certain geographical boundaries. SaTScan has been widely used for spatiotemporal aberration detection due to its user friendly software… read more -
Correlation of school absenteeism and laboratory results for Flu A in Alberta, Canada
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Rates of student absenteeism in schools have been mainly used to detect outbreaks in schools and prompt public health action to stop local transmission. A report by Kim Mogto et al. stated that aggregated counts of school absenteeism (SAi… read more -
Characterizing Public Health Actions in Response to Syndromic Surveillance Alerts
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Public health in Ontario, Canada has no standardized system for carrying out syndromic surveillance. Previous research had demonstrated wide variation in the implementation of syndromic surveillance. Objective: To describe… read more -
The Impact of Standardized Decision Support on Syndromic Surveillance in Alberta
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Syndromic surveillance uses pre-diagnostic data to inform communicable disease prevention and control. Among health zones in the province of Alberta, Canada, practices employed by public health when using elementary school illness-cause absenteeism… read more -
Use of syndromic surveillance in decision making during the H1N1 pandemic in Ontario, Canada
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For public health surveillance to achieve its desired purpose of reducing morbidity and mortality, surveillance data must be linked to public health response. While there is evidence of the growing popularity of syndromic surveillance (1,2), the… read more