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Argus: A Global Detection and Tracking System for Biological Events
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Objective. This paper describes Project Argus, a novel foreign biological event detection and tracking system. -
Arizona's Integrated Influenza Surveillance for School Children
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1) Describe ArizonaÃs integrated influenza surveillance for school children with a retrospective analysis of data from multiple sources including School-based Syndromic Surveillance Program (SSSP), laboratory-confirmed influenza case reports,… read more -
Arizona's Near Real Time School-based Syndromic Surveillance Program
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1) Describe a near real-time school-based syndromic surveillance program that integrates electronic data records and a two-way health alert system for early outbreak detection, notification, and possible intervention for Arizona schools. 2)… read more -
Assessing and Optimizing the Accuracy of Physician Billing Claims for Use in Automated Syndromic Surveillance
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To assess the accuracy of community-based physician claims for identifying 5 syndromes: fever, gastrointestinal, neurological, rash, and respiratory. -
Assessing the Coverage of BioCaster Terms in Web News
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We describe here a multilingual ontology to support disease surveillance by intelligent text mining systems from Web-based rumours. We informally assessed the coverage of its English terms on large sample of news collected from the Web. -
Assessing the Impact of Syndromic Surveillance Systems on Routine Public Health Practice: Identifying and Evaluating Syndromic Signals
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We describe the development and implementation of a protocol for identifying syndromic signals and for assessing their value to public health departments for routine (non-bioterrorism) purposes. The specific objectives of the evaluation are to… read more -
Assessing the Utility of Syndromic Surveillance Systems during Extreme Weather Conditions
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Recent extreme weather events have caused serious health and social problems across Europe. During the summer heat waves of 2003 across Europe, France recorded an excess of over 14,000 deaths contributed to heat-related causes. Other countries such… read more -
Automated Creation of High-Quality Maps Using SAS and Python
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New York City ED syndromic surveillance data uses SaTScan to detect spatial signals. SaTScan analysis has been integrated into SAS since 2002, and signal maps have been generated from SAS since 2003. Signal maps are created occasionally to… read more