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Relationship between neighborhood poverty and emergency department utilization for fever/flu syndrome
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The HEDSS system was implemented in 2004 to monitor disease activity.1 In all, 18 of 32 emergency departments (ED) and urgent care clinic provide data. Chief complaints are routinely categorized into eight syndromes. The fever/flu syndrome is… read more -
Map application to the New York state electronic syndromic surveillance system
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The primary goal of the Electronic Syndromic Surveillance system (ESSS) is to monitor trends in non-specific symptoms of illness at the community level in real time. The ESSS includes emergency department chief complaint data that are categorized… read more -
Public health data sharing policy and informatics initiatives at China CDC
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Construction of data-sharing network for public health is one of the national scientific data-sharing projects, based on the data resource that distributed at China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), universities, research… read more -
Real-time, reusable, dynamic public health surveillance
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The resources available in most public health departments are limited. Access to trained technical personnel and stateof-the-art computing resources are also lacking. Customizable off-the-shelf systems contribute only to creation of information… read more -
Reporting nationally notifiable conditions (NNC): vocabulary aspects
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Standard vocabulary facilitates the routing and filtering of laboratory data to various public health programs. In 2008, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) developed 67 Technical Implementation Guides (TIGs) that accompany each… read more -
Role of continuous monitoring on performance of surveillance systems in military populations in resource-limited settings
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Timeliness of information has a key role in disease reporting, and may be easily impaired by several factors affecting data entry and utilization.1 Regarding data entry, previous studies have shown that monitoring strategies, such as telephone… read more -
SAGES: a suite of freely available software tools for electronic disease surveillance in resource-limited settings
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Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are a serious threat to global public health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified more than 1100 epidemic events worldwide in the last 5 years alone. Recently, the emergence of the… read more -
Samos: a community-driven open-access prediction market system
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Prediction markets are a type of futures market in which users trade shares that pay off if the event to which they are connected occurs. They are used to aggregate knowledge on a large scale, as the prices of the various contracts can be… read more