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Acute Care Alerting and Integrated Public Health Investigation and Response to Syndromic Surveillance Alerts: Example of a Local Food Borne Outbreak
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To highlight the key role of Emergency Department syn-dromic surveillance in linking acute care and public health, thus enabling collaborative detection, monitoring and management of a local food borne outbreak. -
Adding GIS and Earth Observations to Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes an integrated modeling, sensing, and information system for forecasting atmospheric dust episodes and monitoring PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations that aggravate respiratory diseases in the American southwest. -
Advanced Modular Design for Scalable Biosurveillance Systems
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This paper describes a modular approach to surveillance system design, ensuring flexibility, scalability and fault tolerance. -
Advanced Querying Features for Disease Surveillance Systems
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Automated disease surveillance systems that analyze data by syndrome categories have been used to look for outbreaks of disease for about 10 years. Most of these systems notify users of increases in the prevalence of reports in syndrome categories… read more -
Advantages and Limitations of Real Time Surveillance for the French Armed Forces during Operations
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This paper describes the synthesis of benefits and problems that French Armed Forces had to take into account for the implementation of syndromic surveillance within their epidemiological surveillance strategy. -
Age Specific Correlations between Influenza Laboratory Data and Influenza-like Syndrome Definitions in Boston and New York City
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To compare age-group-specific correlation of influenza-like syndrome (ILS) emergency department (ED) visits with influenza laboratory data in Boston and NYC using locally defined ILS definitions. -
Algorithms to Characterize Syndromic Surveillance Spatial Alerts
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This paper explores some visualization methods for characterizing spatial signals detected by SaTScan and discusses how these maps might aid in deciding whether to investigate a signal, as well as the scope and focus of the investigation. -
Amplification of Syndromic Surveillance's Role in Miami-Dade County
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To describe how the Miami-Dade County Health Department (MDCHD) has expanded Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) for specialized research in addition to daily surveillance activities