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A Comparison of SaTScan and FleXScan for Outbreak Detection and Monitoring
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This paper describes a comparison between two statistics ñ SaTScan and FleXScan, applying to a data of absentees in primary school in Japan. -
A Comprehensive Approach to the Assessment of Surveillance Strategies: the Case of Scrapie in Great Britain
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Multiple surveillance activities have been conducted in Great Britain (GB) with the objective of estimating the occurrence of scrapie, a fatal neurological infectious disease of small ruminants: statutory reporting of clinical cases, annual surveys… read more -
A Controlled Vocabulary for "Reason for Visit" in Ambulatory Encounters
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Objective: To enable improved health surveillance and clinical decision support within ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. -
A County Health Department's Analysis and Dissemination Algorithm of a Neruological Syndrome Aberration to Respective Community Stakeholders
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The purpose of this study is to depict a local county health departmentÃs analysis and dissemination algorithm of surveillance system (SS) aberration (alarm) to designated stakeholders within the community. -
A Flexible Space-Time Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak Detection and Monitoring
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A time periodic geographic disease surveillance system based on a cylindrical space-time scan statistic proposed by Kulldorff [1] has been used extensively for disease surveillance along with the SaTScan software. This statistic is based on a… read more -
A Framework for Evaluating Temporal Alerting Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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This abstract describes a suite of software utilities that have been developed for systematically evaluating the detection performance and robustness of univariate temporal alerting algorithms used in syndromic surveillance systems. -
Enterovirus D68 Outbreak SyS Discussion
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ISDS Conference Call to discuss surveillance for severe respiratory illness / Enterovirus D68. This call will be an opportunity for syndromic surveillance practitioners to share their experiences conducting their contribution to surveillance for… read more -
Early Detection of Tuberculosis Outbreaks among the San Francisco Homeless
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San Francisco has the highest rate of TB in the US. Although in recent years the incidence of TB has been declining in the San Francisco general population, it has remained relatively constant in the homeless population. Spatial… read more