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Expert Meeting on Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance
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For syndromic and related surveillance systems to be effective public health tools, state and local health departments and CDC need access to a variety of types of health data. However, since the development and implementation of syndromic… read more -
Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance
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For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more -
Exploring Multi-Cluster Structures with the Multi-Objective Circular Scan
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The spatial scan statistic is the usual measure of strength of a cluster [1]. Another important measure is its geometric regularity [2]. A genetic multiobjective algorithm was developed elsewhere to identify irregularly shaped clusters [3]. A search… read more -
Exploring Syndrome Definition by Applying Clustering Methods to Electronic Health Records Data
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Electronic Health Record (EHR) data offers the researcher a potentially rich source of data for tracking disease syndromes. Procedures performed on the patient, medications… read more -
Exploring the Gaps: Symptoms by Influenza Type and Enhanced Sampling
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The ability to accurately predict influenza infection by symptoms and local epidemiology prior to lab confirmation warrants further study… read more -
Exploring the Role of Quest Diagnostics Corporate Data Warehouse for Timely Influenza Surveillance
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A Quest Diagnostics Incorporated – CDC collaboration in 2000 pioneered exploration of test ordering data to enhance infectious diseasessurveillance1. This year’s unexpected shortage of vaccine and… read more -
Extending Comparisons Beyond Time and Space: Looking for Similarities Between Diseases
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Early detection of new diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy is the subject of great interest (Gibbens et al., 2008). Understanding whether a disease is infectious or sporadic becomes essential for the application of control measures.… read more -
Extensibility in Semantic Web Description of Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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The semantic web is an emerging technology for expressing rich descriptions of a problem domain in the form of ontologies. An ontology provides a domain specific knowledge base… read more