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Improving System Ability to Identify Symptom Complexes in Free-Text Data
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Text-based syndrome case definitions published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)1 form the basis for the syndrome queries used by the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT). Keywords within these… read more -
In Search of a Controlled Vocabulary for Emergency Department Chief Complaint: A Comparison of Four Published Chief Complaint Lists
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The lack of a standardized vocabulary for recording CC complicates the collection, aggregation, and analysis of CC for any purpose, but especially for real-time surveillance of patterns of illness and injury. The need for a controlled CC vocabulary… read more -
in silico Surveillance: Using Detailed Computer Simulations to Develop and Evaluate Outbreak Detection
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Developing and evaluating outbreak detection is challenging for many reasons. A central difficulty is that the data the detection algorithms are “trained” on are often relatively short historical samples and thus do not represent the full… read more -
Incorporating Geographical Contacts into Social Network Analysis for Contact Tracing in Epidemiology: A Study on Taiwan SARS Data
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In epidemiology, contact tracing is a process to control the spread of an infectious disease and identify individuals who were previously exposed to patients with the disease. After the emergence of AIDS, SNA was demonstrated to be a good… read more -
Incorporating Learning into Disease Surveillance Systems
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Current state-of-the-art outbreak detection methods [1-3] combine spatial, temporal, and other covariate information from multiple data streams to detect emerging clusters of disease. However, these approaches use fixed methods and models for… read more -
Incorporating Wildlife Data into Syndromic Surveillance
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The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) serves public health users across North Carolina at the local, regional and state levels, providing syndromic surveillance capabilities. At the state level,… read more -
Increasing Local Access to Syndromic Surveillance Data
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In the spring of 2005, the ISDH began using Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) application to analyze emergency department (ED) chief complaint data for syndromic surveillance… read more -
Increasing the Return-on-Investment from Syndromic Surveillance: Putting the Systems to Work for Routine Local Health Department Activities
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Since October 2004, the Indiana State Health Department and the Marion County Health Department have been developing and using a syndromic surveillance system based on emergency department admission data. The system … read more