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Preliminary Findings from the BioSense Evaluation Project
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In October 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded four institutions, including Emory University, to conduct evaluations of the BioSense surveillance system. These evaluations include investigations of situations… read more… by the Emory University team. METHODS With general guidance from CDC and in collabora- tion with the other … -
Identifying Syndromic Fingerprints in Reason Fields in Emergency Department or Telehealth Records using N-grams for Similarity Analysis
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An N-gram is a sub-sequence of n items from a given sequence where n can be 1, 2,…, n and the items can be letters or words. N-gram models are widely used in statistical natural language processing [3]. In the syndromic surveillance context, N-grams… read more… Text categori- sation”, Proceedings of Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, Las Vegas, NV. … -
A Syndrome Track and Reporting System in Hillsborough County Florida: Findings from a Systematic Evaluation
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One of the first county-wide syndromic surveillance systems in the nation, the Syndromic Tracking and Reporting System (STARS) has been in operation since 11/01/2001, and now covers Hillsborough, Pinellas and Collier counties.… read more… efficiency, characteristics of aberration detection, and guidance procedure for aberration investigation. Syndrome … -
Limb Elephantiasis as Predictor for the Occurrence and Spread of Lymphatic Filariasis in Kano State, Nigeria
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Lymphatic filariasis is one of the most prevalent of the tropical diseases, but is also the most neglected.Though significant advances have been made in the understanding both the disease and its control, there is general lack of information about… read more… for Rapid Mapping of Bancroftian Filariasis in Africa. Document WGO/CDS/CPE/CEE/2000.9. Geneva: WHO. Advances in … -
BioSense program redesign
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The BioSense program’s mission is to support and improve public health surveillance infrastructure and human capacity required to monitor (with minimal lag) critical population health indicators of the scope and severity of acute… read more… situational awareness capability. Methods With input and guidance from our local, state, and federal surveillance … -
Virtual public health informatics training: development and delivery of an online public health informatics course
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Public health informatics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that uses information technology and informatics methods to meet public health goals. To achieve these goals, education and training of a new generation of public health informaticians… read more… informatics projects and systems. Each module contains a guidance file, one or more voice- over-power-point lectures, … -
Emergency Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) for Public Health in Canada
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In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more… interface. A technical overview paper has been written to document the extensive alterations that have been included … -
Multi-Tier Role Based Access for Secure and Flexible Syndromic Surveillance
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NC DETECT receives data on at least a daily basis from five data sources: emergency departments (ED), the statewide poison center (CPC), the statewide EMS data collection system, a regional wildlife center and laboratories from the NC State College… read more… in the new system allowing authorized users to document signals and keep track of signal investigations. …