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Evaluating Syndromic Surveillance Systems

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2016
Syndromic surveillance systems are commonly presented in the literature but few are rigorously evaluated. We present and test an evaluation framework to examine which events can and cannot be detected, the time to detection and the efficacy of different syndromic surveillance data streams.
Lake, Iain, Colón-González, Felipe J., Morbey, Roger, Elliot, Alex J., Smith, Gillian E., Pebody, Richard   +5 more
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Redefining Syndromic Surveillance

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2014
There is no consensus regarding a standard definition encompassing the full scope of the term 'syndromic surveillance' that accurately describes the various data sources and data elements (both pre-diagnostic and diagnostic) used in this surveillance method.
Ising, Amy, May, Larissa, Ishikawa, Charlie   +2 more
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Self-Reported Fever and Measured Temperature in Emergency Department Records Used for Syndromic Surveillance [PDF]

, 2012
Many public health agencies monitor population health using syndromic surveillance, generally employing information from emergency department (ED) visit records.
Brownstein, John Samuel, Buckeridge, David, Gunn, Julia, Ishikawa, Charles K T, Kass-Hout, Taha A, Massoudi, Barbara L, McMurray, Paul, Xu, Zhiheng   +7 more
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Congenital Rubella Syndrome Surveillance in Honduras [PDF]

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2011
Congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) surveillance was established in Honduras to determine the scope of the problem and assess the impact of vaccination.Implementation of the surveillance system required the drafting of national CRS epidemiological surveillance guidelines, the development of a laboratory diagnostic method, and training of physicians ...
Ida Berenice, Molina, Lourdes Otilia, Mendoza, María Aparicia, Palma   +2 more
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Syndromic surveillance to assess the potential public health impact of the Icelandic volcanic ash plume across the United Kingdom, April 2010 [PDF]

, 2010
The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland erupted on 14 April 2010 emitting a volcanic ash plume that spread across the United Kingdom and mainland Europe.
Catchpole, M., Elliott, A.J., Harcourt, S., Ibbotson, S., Kavanagh, K., Kibble, A., Loveridge, P., McCloskey, B., McMenamin, J., Murray, V., Pnaiser, R., Ramsay, C.N., Robertson, C., Singh, N., Smith, G.E., Smith, S.   +15 more
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EigenEvent: An Algorithm for Event Detection from Complex Data Streams in Syndromic Surveillance [PDF]

, 2014
Syndromic surveillance systems continuously monitor multiple pre-diagnostic daily streams of indicators from different regions with the aim of early detection of disease outbreaks.
Fanaee-T, Hadi, Gama, João
core   +3 more sources

Statistical approaches to the surveillance of infectious diseases for veterinary public health [PDF]

, 2007
This technical report covers the aspect of using statistical methodology for the monitoring of routinely collected surveillance data in veterinary public health.
Held, Leonhard, Höhle, Michael, Paul, Michaela   +2 more
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Time series modeling for syndromic surveillance [PDF]

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2003
Emergency department (ED) based syndromic surveillance systems identify abnormally high visit rates that may be an early signal of a bioterrorist attack. For example, an anthrax outbreak might first be detectable as an unusual increase in the number of patients reporting to the ED with respiratory symptoms.
Reis, Ben, Mandl, Kenneth
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Improving the Evaluation and Management of Transfusion‐Related Iron Overload in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults Following Cancer Treatment or Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Transfusion‐related iron overload (TRIO) is a late effect of therapy impacting survivors of childhood cancer and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) who receive frequent packed red blood cell (pRBC) transfusions. Surprisingly, there are no accepted guidelines to assist providers in identifying and treating at‐risk ...
Luke Gingell, Allison Close, Guoli Zhou, Troy C. Quigg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification and Prioritization of Potential Data Sources for a Biothreat Syndromic Surveillance System in Iran [PDF]

Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System
Background: Syndromic surveillance is considered an effective tool used to detect early manifestations of biothreats and bioterrorismrelated diseases. Nowadays, a wide range of data sources has been used in biothreat syndromic surveillance systems.
Seyyed Jamal Emami, Mojtaba Sepandi, Yousef Alimohamadi, Ruhollah Zaboli, Sayyed-Morteza Hosseini-Shokouh, Nematollah Jonaidi Jafari   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source