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Improvement Control System of Rabies in Ukraine
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In Ukraine in spite of considerable financial expenses on oral immunization of foxes and parenteral immunization of dogs and cats, it is not succeeded to reach considerable results in the fight with rabies. Unfortunately there was a negative… read more -
Improving ILI Surveillance using Hospital Staff Influenza-like Absence (ILA)
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Surveillance of influenza in the US, UK and other countries is based primarily on measures of influenza-like illness (ILI), through a combination of syndromic surveillance systems, however, this method may not capture the full spectrum of illness or… read more -
Extracting Surveillance Data from Templated Sections of an Electronic Medical Note: Challenges and Opportunities
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The main stay of recording patient data is the free text of electronic medical records (EMR). While stating the chief complaint and history of presenting illness in the patients ‘own words’, the rest of the electronic note is written by the provider… read more -
Extraction of Disease Occurrence Patterns Using MiSTIC: Salmonellosis in Florida
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Infectious diseases, though initially tend to be limited geographically to a reservoir; a subsequent spatial variation in disease prevalence (including spread & intensity) arises from the underlying differences in physical-biological conditions… read more -
International Collaboration for Improved Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response in India
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The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005, provides a framework that supports efforts to improve global health security and requires that, member states develop and strengthen systems and capacity for disease surveillance and detection and… read more -
Localized Cluster Detection Applied to Joint and Separate Military and Veteran Subpopulations
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The Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project seeks to improve situational awareness of the health of VA/DoD populations by combining their respective data. Each system uses a version of the Electronic Surveillance… read more -
LOINC and SNOMED CT Code Use in Electronic Laboratory Reporting - US, 2011
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Monitoring laboratory test reports could aid disease surveillance by adding diagnostic specificity to early warning signals and thus improving the efficiency of public health investigation of detected signals. Laboratory data could also be employed… read more -
Long-Term Asthma Trend Monitoring in New York City: A Mixed Model Approach
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Over the last decade, the application of syndromic surveillance systems has expanded beyond early event detection to include longterm disease trend monitoring. However, statistical methods employed for analyzing syndromic data tend to focus on early… read more