Vol 5, No 1 (2013)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Editorial: 2012 ISDS Conference Proceedings PDF
Amy Ising

Oral Presentations: Border Health/ Multi-jurisdictional Health

A Systematic Evaluation of Data Streams for Global Disease Surveillance PDF
Alina Deshpande, Mac Brown, Lauren Castro, William B. Daniel, Eric N. Generous, Andrea Hengartner, Kristen Margevicius, Kirsten Taylor-McCabe
A Binational Influenza Surveillance Network - California/Baja California PDF
Esmeralda Iniguez-Stevens, Sarah Marikos, Karen Ferran
Enhancing Surveillance for Arboviral Infections in the Arizona Border Region PDF
Orion McCotter, Frank Vanskike, Kacey Ernst, Ken Komatsu, Harold Margolis, Stephen Waterman, Laura Tippit, Kay Tomashek, Anne Wertheimer, Sonia Montiel, Catherine Golenko, Elizabeth Hunsperger
Effectiveness of the 2011-12 Influenza Vaccine: Data from US Military Dependents and US-Mexico Border Civilians. PDF
Damaris Padin, Anthony Hawksworth, Peter Kammerer, Erin McDonough, Gary Brice

Oral Presentations: Analytical Methods - Bayesian

Refinement of a Population-Based Bayesian Network for Fusion of Health Surveillance Data PDF
Howard Burkom, Yevgeniy Elbert, Liane Ramac-Thomas, Christopher Cuellar, Vivian Hung
Sequential Bayesian Inference for Detection and Response to Seasonal Epidemics PDF
Michael Ludkovski, Junjing Lin
Tau-leaped Particle Learning PDF
Jarad Niemi, Michael Ludkovski
Modeling Baseline Shifts in Multivariate Disease Outbreak Detection PDF
Jialan Que, Fu-Chiang Tsui

Oral Presentations: Cluster Detection

Localized Cluster Detection Applied to Joint and Separate Military and Veteran Subpopulations PDF
Howard Burkom, Yevgeniy Elbert, Carla Winston, Julie Pavlin, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Mark Holodniy
Multiple Source Spatial Cluster Detection Through Multi-criteria Analysis PDF
Luiz H. Duczmal, Alexandre C. L. Almeida, Fabio R. da Silva, Martin Kulldorff
Using the Flow of People in Cluster Detection and Inference PDF
Sabino J. Ferreira, Francisco S. Oliveira, Ricardo Tavares, Flavio R. Moura
Time of Arrival Analysis in NC DETECT to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records PDF
Meichun Li, Wayne Loschen, Lana Deyneka, Howard Burkom, Amy Ising, Anna Waller
Searching for Complex Patterns Using Disjunctive Anomaly Detection PDF
Maheshkumar Sabhnani, Artur Dubrawski, Jeff Schneider
Tracking Dynamic Water-borne Outbreaks with Temporal Consistency Constraints PDF
Skyler Speakman, Yating Zhang, Daniel B. Neill

Oral Presentations: Data Quality and Underlying Patterns in Data Streams

Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality PDF
Shaun Grannis, Brian Dixon, Yuni Xia, Jianmin Wu
Development of Automated Data Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System PDF
Wayne Loschen, Aaron Kite-Powell
Disease Mapping with Spatially Uncertain Data PDF
Justin Manjourides, Ted Cohen, Caroline Jeffery, Marcello Pagano
Extraction of Disease Occurrence Patterns Using MiSTIC: Salmonellosis in Florida PDF
Vipul Raheja, K. S. Rajan
Data Quality: A Systematic Review of the Biosurveillance Literature PDF
Tera Reynolds, Ian Painter, Laura Streichert
Detecting Changes in Chief Complaint Word Count: Effects on Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Jessica Sell, Robert Mathes, Marc Paladini

Oral Presentations: Disease Surveillance Methods

Utility of System Generated Syndromic Surveillance Alerts to Detect Reportable Disease Outbreaks PDF
Carrie Eggers, Aaron Kite-Powell, Janet Hamilton
A Biosurveillance-driven Home Score to Guide Strep Pharyngitis Treatment PDF
Andrew Fine, Victor Nizet, Kenneth Mandl
An Experimental Study Using Opt-in Internet Panel Surveys for Behavioral Health Surveillance PDF
Carol A. Gotway Crawford, Catherine A. Okoro, Haci M. Akcin, Satvinder Dhingra
A Piece of the Public Health Surveillance Puzzle: Social Contacts among School-Aged Children PDF
Molly Leecaster, Warren Pettey, Damon Toth, Jeanette Rainey, Amra Uzicanin, Matthew Samore
The Use of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) Coding in Identifying Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Health System Data: Implications for Surveillance PDF
Reena Mahajan, Anne C. Moorman, Stephen J. Liu, Loralee Rupp, Monina Klevens, (CHeCS) for the Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Investigators
The Black Canyon Forecast Station: Experiences And Lessons Learned PDF
James M. Wilson, Bonnie Koehler, Kathleen Sramek, Treve Henwood

Oral Presentations: Electronic Health Records

CaseFinder: A Flexible Real-time Online Surveillance Registry for Infectious Disease Physicians to Report Cases of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) PDF
Donald Curtis, Scott Weissman, Dimitri Drekonja, Susan Beekmann, Benjamin Buckmaster, John Lynch, April Abbott, Ferric Fang, Philip Polgreen
A System for Surveillance Directly from the EMR PDF
Richard F. Davies, Jason Morin, Ramanjot S. Bhatia, Lambertus de Bruijn
Evaluation of Clinical and Administrative Data to Augment Public Health Surveillance PDF
Joseph R. Egger, Brooks Lowe, Erica Johnson, Randy Durbin, Erica Griffin, Sanjaya Dhakal, Achintya Dey, Sam Groseclose
Processing of Novel Electronic Health Data to Support Public Health Surveillance PDF
Peter Hicks, Henry Rolka, Mark Wooster, Lynette Brammer
SMART Platforms: Building The App Store for Biosurveillance PDF
Kenneth D. Mandl
Utility of Syndromic Surveillance Using Novel Clinical Data Sources PDF
Rebecca Zwickl, Charles Ishikawa, Laura C. Streichert

Oral Presentations: Influenza Surveillance Methods - Evaluation and Practice

Use of a Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance System to Improve Influenza Like Illness Screening and Documentation in Emergency Departments during the H1N1 Pandemic PDF
David Meurer, James Talbot
Does Antimicrobial Prescription Data Improve Influenza Surveillance in VA? PDF
Patricia Schirmer, Carla Winston, Russell Ryono, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Gina Oda, Mark Holodniy
Evaluation of Electronic Ambulatory Care Data for Use in the Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet) PDF
Kathleen Stigi, Atar Baer, Kathy Lofy
Early Detection of Influenza Activity Using Syndromic Surveillance in Missouri PDF
Fei Wu, Amy Kelsey
Automated Surveillance of Outpatients with Pneumonia: A Performance Evaluation PDF
Hongzhang Zheng, Tariq Siddiqui, Sylvain DeLisle

Oral Presentations: Influenza Surveillance Methods - Research

Coverage and Timeliness of Combined Military and Veteran Surveillance Systems PDF
Howard S. Burkom, Yevgeniy Elbert, Carla Winston, Julie Pavlin, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Mark Holodniy
Influenza Forecasting with Google Flu Trends PDF
Andrea F. Dugas, Mehdi Jalalpour, Yulia Gel, Scott Levin, Fred Torcaso, Takeru Igusa, Richard Rothman
Detection of Patients with Influenza Syndrome Using Machine-Learning Models Learned from Emergency Department Reports PDF
Arturo Lopez Pineda, Fu-Chiang Tsui, Shyam Visweswaran, Gregory F. Cooper
Using Surveillance Data to Identify Risk Factors for Severe H1N1 in First Nations PDF
Kathryn Morrison, Yanyu Xiao, Seyed Moghadas, David Buckeridge
Comparing Prescription Sales, Google Trends and CDC Data as Flu Activity Indicators PDF
Avinash Patwardhan, David Lorber

Oral Presentations: Information Sharing & Partnerships

Detection of a Swine Erysipelas Outbreak Using Enhanced Passive Surveillance PDF
Judy Akkina, Wolf Weber, Lisa Becton
The Epidemiologic Vocabulary of the West and the Former Soviet Union: Different Sides of the Same Science PDF
Anna Grigoryan, Carmen Clarke, Lyudmila Zueva, Tetyana Chumachenko, Edmond F. Maes, Bonnie Smoak
A Health Department's Collaborative Model for Disease Surveillance Capacity Building PDF
Ikechi Konkwo, Robert G. Harmon, William C. Livingood, Thomas Bryant III, Saad Zaheer
Sharing Public Health Information with Non-Public Health Partners PDF
Wayne Loschen, Rekha Holtry, Kalman Hazins, Sheryl Happel Lewis
Establishing a Federal and State Data Exchange Pilot for Public Health Situational Awareness PDF
Dina B. Passman, Aaron Kite-Powell, Dara Spector, Wayne Loschen, Barry Harp, Aaron Chern, Janet Hamilton, Cary Eggers, Joseph Lombardo
Collaboration for Improved Disease Surveillance Literature Review PDF
Tera Reynolds, Katie Suda, Blaine Reeder, William Storm, Al Ozonoff, Howard Burkom

Oral Presentations: Meaningful Use

Evaluation of Emergency Department Data Quality following PHIN Syndromic Surveillance Messaging Guide PDF
Hwa-Gan Chang, Charlene Weng, Charlie DiDonato, Dave DiCesare, Jian-Hua Chen, Debra Blog
Towards Interoperability for Public Health Surveillance: Experiences from Two States PDF
Brian E. Dixon, Jason A. Siegel, Tanya V. Oemig, Shaun J. Grannis
Towards Estimation of Electronic Laboratory Reporting Volumes in a Meaningful Use World PDF
Brian E. Dixon, Roland E. Gamache, Shaun J. Grannis
Recommendations for Syndromic Surveillance Using Inpatient and Ambulatory EHR Data PDF
Geraldine Johnson, Charles Ishikawa, Rebecca Zwickl, Maiko Minami, Taha Kass-Hout, Laura Streichert
Evaluation of ESSENCE in the Cloud Using Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data PDF
Wayne Loschen, William Stephens, Taha Kass-Hout, Miles Stewart, Dave Heinbaugh, Joseph Lombardo
Enabling ESSENCE to Process and Export Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data PDF
Miles Stewart, Wayne Loschen, Taha Kass-Hout

Oral Presentations: Novel Uses of Syndromic Data

Can We Use Syndromic Surveillance Data to Identify Primary Care Visits to NYC EDs? PDF
Jessica Athens
Use of Syndromic Data to Determine Oral Health Visit Burden on Emergency Departments PDF
Howard Burkom, Sherry Burrer, Laurie Barker, Valerie Robison, Peter Hicks, Amy Ising
Nontraumatic Oral Health Classification for Alternative Use of Syndromic Data PDF
Sherry Burrer, Howard Burkom, Christopher Okunseri, Laurie Barker, Valerie Robison
Mental Illness and Co-morbid Conditions: BioSense 2008 - 2011 PDF
Achintya N. Dey, Anna Grigoryan, Soyoun Park, Stephen Benoit, Taha Kass-Hout
COPD-Related ED Visits in North Carolina: Hospitalizations and Return Visits PDF
Steven J. Lippmann, Karin B. Yeatts, Anna Waller, Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Debbie Travers, Morris Weinberger, James F. Donohue
A Syndromic Approach to Emergency Department Surveillance for Skin and Soft Tissue Infections PDF
Larissa May, Marcus Rennick, Leah Gustafson, Julia Gunn

Oral Presentations: Social and News Media

MoH+: A Global, Integrated, and Automated View of Official Outbreak Reporting PDF
Chi Bahk, David Scales, Sumiko Mekaru, John S. Brownstein, Clark Freifeld
Development of a Vietnamese Language Outbreak Mapping and Surveillance System PDF
David Bui, Sumiko Mekaru, Clark Freifeld, John S. Brownstein
Tweeting Fever: Are Tweet Extracts a Valid Surrogate Data Source for Dengue Fever? PDF
Jacqueline S. Coberly, Clayton R. Fink, Eugene Elbert, In-Kyu Yoon, John M. Velasco, Agnes Tomayo, V. Roque, S. Ygano, Durinda Macasoco, Sheri Lewis
#wheezing: A Content Analysis of Asthma-Related Tweets PDF
Gwendolyn Gillingham, Michael A. Conway, Wendy W. Chapman, Michael B. Casale, Kathryn B. Pettigrew
Content Analysis of Tobacco-related Twitter Posts PDF
Mark Myslín, Shu-Hong Zhu, Michael Conway
Framing the Use of Social Media Tools in Public Health PDF
Jennifer Stoll, Richard Quartarone, Miguel Torres-Urquidy

Oral Presentations: Surveillance during Mass Gatherings and Outbreaks

Enhanced Disease Surveillance during the 2012 Republican National Convention, Tampa, FL PDF
David Atrubin, Michael Wiese, Rebecca Snider, Kiley Workman, Warren McDougle
Using GI Syndrome Data as an Early Warning Tool for Norovirus Outbreak Activity PDF
Erin E. Austin, Jun Yang, Tim Powell
State Foodborne Illness Surveillance and Response Laws: Compilation and Analysis PDF
Stephanie David, Jenna Burton, Chris Chadwick, Rebecca Katz
Operational Experience: Integration of ASPR Data into ESSENCE-FL during the RNC PDF
Carrie Eggers, Dina Passman, Aaron Chern, Dara Spector, Aaron Kite-Powell, Tim Davis, Wayne Loschen, Joe Lombardo, Douglas Char, Janet Hamilton
Evaluating a Social Network Analytic Tool to Support Outbreak Management and Contact Tracing in an Outbreak of Pertussis PDF
Esther Munene, S. Mottice, J. Reid
Using Cloud Technology to Support Monitoring During High Profile Events PDF
Megan Patel, Enyinnaya Adighibe, Joseph Lombardo, Wayne Loschen, Miles Stewart, Michael O. Vernon

Oral Presentations: Syndrome Development & Validation & Natural Language Processing

Computerized Text Analysis to Enhance Automated Pneumonia Detection PDF
Sylvain DeLisle, Tariq Siddiqui, Adi Gundlapalli, Matthew Samore, Leonard D'Avolio
Extracting Surveillance Data from Templated Sections of an Electronic Medical Note: Challenges and Opportunities PDF
Adi Gundlapalli, Guy Divita, Marjorie Carter, Shuying Shen, Miland Palmer, Tyler Forbush, Brett South, Andrew Redd, Brian Sauer, Matthew Samore
A Novel Syndrome Definition Validation Approach for Rarely Occurring Diseases PDF
Julio C. Silva, Shital C. Shah, Dino P. Rumoro, Marilyn M. Hallock, Gillian S. Gibbs, Michael J. Waddell
The Distribution of Infectious Related Symptoms in an Internet-based Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural China PDF
Qi Zhao, Fuqiang Yang, Lars Palm, Hui Yuan, Weirong Yan, Biao Xu

Oral Presentations: System Descriptions & Evaluations

Syndromic Surveillance for Outbreak Detection and Investigation PDF
Tom Andersson, Pär Bjelkmar, Anette Hulth, Johan Lindh, Stephan Stenmark, Mikael Widerström
New Strategy and Innovative Projects at the National Biosurveillance Integration Center PDF
Steven Bennett, Teresa Quitugua
Identification and Assessment of Public Health Surveillance Gaps under the IHR (2005) PDF
Ngozi Erondu, Betiel Hadgu Haile, Lisa Ferland, Meeyoung Park, Affan Shaikh, Heather Meeks, Scott JN McNabb
Malaria Trends in Six Outpatient Sites in Uganda, 2008 - 2011 PDF
Ruth K. Nassali, Arthur Mpimbaza, Stella Kakeeto, Asadu Sserwanga, Fred Kizito, Denis Rubahika, Melody Miles, Michelle Chang, Grant Dorsey, Moses Kamya
Syndromic Surveillance from a Local Perspective: A Review of the Literature PDF
Donald Olson, Kevin Konty, Rob Mathes, Marc Paladini
Adapting Syndromic Surveillance Systems to Increase Value to Local Health Departments PDF
Erika Samoff, Mary T. Fangman, Amy Ising, Lana Deyneka, Anna E. Waller

Oral Presentations: System Resources and Assessment

Using Cultural Modeling to Inform a NEDSS-Compatible System Functionality Evaluation PDF
Olympia Anderson, Miguel Torres-Urquidy
Use of BioSense for Rapid Assessment of the Safety of Medical Countermeasures PDF
Ralph J. Coates, Kathleen Gallagher
Biosurveillance Ecosystem (BSVE) Workflow Analysis PDF
Timothy Dasey, Heyley Davison Reynolds, Nancy Nurthen, Christopher Kiley, John Silva
The Organizational Structures and Human Resources Allocation of Infectious Disease Surveillance System in Rural China PDF
Biao Xu, Qi Zhao, Huijian Cheng, Tao Tao, Yipin Zhu, Miao Yu, Hui Yuan

Oral Presentations: Temporal or Spatio-temporal

Spatial Scan Statistics for Models with Excess Zeros and Overdispersion PDF
Max Sousa de Lima, Luiz H. Duczmal, Leticia P. Pinto
Category-Specific Comparison of Univariate Alerting Methods for Biosurveillance Decision Support PDF
Yevgeniy Elbert, Vivian Hung, Howard Burkom
Determinants of Outbreak Detection Performance PDF
Nastaran Jafarpour, Doina Precup, David Buckeridge
Fast Multidimensional Subset Scan for Outbreak Detection and Characterization PDF
Daniel B. Neill, Tarun Kumar
Applying Zero-inflated Mixed Model to School Absenteeism Surveillance in Rural China PDF
Xiaoxiao Song, Tao Tao, Qi Zhao, Fuqiang Yang, Palm Lars, Diwan Vinod, Hui Yuan, Biao Xu

Oral Presentations: Weather, Environmental, and Vector-borne

Public Health Surveillance in Pilot Drinking Water Contamination Warning Systems PDF
Chrissy Dangel, Steven C. Allgeier, Darcy Gibbons, Adam Haas
Using Google Dengue Trends to Estimate Climate Effects in Mexico PDF
Rebecca T. Gluskin, Mauricio Santillana, John S. Brownstein
Use of Syndromic Surveillance Information for Expanded Assessment of Wildfire Disaster PDF
Jeffrey Johnson, Michele Ginsberg, Nancy French, Brian Thelen, Benjamin Koziol
Surveillance for Radiation-Related Exposures Reported to the National Poison Data System PDF
Royal K. Law, Colleen Martin, Alvin Bronstein, Arthur Chang, Joshua Schier
When it Rains it Pours: Real-time Situational Awareness for Two Weather Emergencies in Connecticut PDF
Kristen Soto, Jaime Krasnitski, Therese Rabatsky-Ehr, Matthew Cartter

Panels

Update from CDC's Public Health Surveillance & Informatics Program Office (PHSIPO) PDF
James Buehler, Laura Conn, Carol Crawford, Kathleen Gallagher
An ISDS-Based Initiative for Conventions for Biosurveillance Data Analysis Methods PDF
Michael Coletta, Howard Burkom, Jeffrey Johnson, Wendy Chapman
S&I Public Health Reporting Initiative: Improving Standardization of Surveillance PDF
Michael Coletta, Nikolay Lipskiy, David Birnbaum, John Abellera
Poison Center Data for Public Health Surveillance: Poison Center and Public Health Perspectives PDF
Royal K. Law, Josh Schier, Jay Schauben, Katherine Wheeler, Prakash Mulay

Posters

Comparing Syndromic Surveillance and Poison Center Data for Snake Bites in Missouri PDF
Karen H. Pugh, Amy Kelsey, Rebecca Tominack
Enhanced Influenza Surveillance using Telephone Triage Data in the VA ESSENCE Biosurveillance System PDF
Cynthia A. Lucero-Obusan, Carla A. Winston, Patricia L. Schirmer, Gina Oda, Anoshiravan Mostaghimi, Mark Holodniy
Syndromic Surveillance at the New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory PDF
Kylius Wilkins, Bruce Akey, Belinda Thompson, Daryl Nydam
State and Local Health Agency Engagement in HIE: A Cross-Sectional Survey PDF
Brian E. Dixon, Roland E. Gamache, Shaun J. Grannis
Enabling Syndromic Surveillance in Pakistan PDF
Ross Maciejewski, Shehjad Afzal, Adam J. Fairfield, Arif Ghafoor, David S. Ebert, Naeem Ayyaz, Maaz Ahmed
Statistical Models for Biosurveillance of Multiple Organisms PDF
Doyo G. Enki, Angela Noufaily, C. P. Farrington, Paul H. Garthwaite, Nick Andrews, André Charlett, Chris Lane
Increasing Mild Enterovirus Cases Provides An Important Signal of Up-coming Trends in Elevating Severe Enterovirus Cases PDF
Ta-Chien Chan, Rung-Hung Chen, Chwan-Chuen King
EIDSS Application for CCHF Foci Activity Epi-Analysis and Prediction in Kazakhstan PDF
Stanislav V. Kazakov, Alexey V. Burdakov, Kenes S. Ospanov, Aizhan S. Esmagambetova, Andrey O. Ukharov, Veronika P. Sadovskaya, Umirbek B. Usenov
Co-morbidity Factors Associated with Influenza in Nigeria PDF
Aishatu B. Gubio, Saka J. Muhammad, Aisha Mamman, Ado Zakari, Oladayo Biya
Use of Control Bar Matrix for Outbreak Detection in Syndromic Surveillance System PDF
Tao Tao, Qi Zhao, Huijian Cheng, Lars Palm, Xin Lu, Hui Yuan, Xiaoxiao Song, Biao Xu
Using Syndromic Emergency Department Data to Augment Oral Health Surveillance PDF
John P. Jasek, Nicole Hosseinipour, Talia Rubin, Ramona Lall
The Surveillance Window - Contextualizing Data Streams PDF
Kirsten McCabe, Lauren Castro, Mac Brown, William Daniel, Eric Nick Generous, Kristen Margevicius, Alina Deshpande
A Survey of Data Recording Procedures at New York City Emergency Departments PDF
Jessica Sell, Alyssa Wong
A Framework for Detecting and Classifying Outbreaks of Gastrointestinal Disease PDF
Kathryn Morrison, Katia Charland, Anya Okhmatovskaia, David Buckeridge
Improving ILI Surveillance using Hospital Staff Influenza-like Absence (ILA) PDF
Lydia Drumright, Simon Frost, Mike Catchpole, John Harrison, Mark Atkins, Penny Parker, Alex J. Elliot, Douglas M. Fleming, Alison H. Holmes
Multi-dimensional Problems in Health Settings: A Review of Approaches to Decision Making PDF
Victor J. Del Rio Vilas, Gilberto Montibeller, L. Alberto Franco, Willy Aspinall
SurSaUD® Software: A Tool to Support the Data Management, the Analysis and the Dissemination of Results from the French Syndromic Surveillance System PDF
Anne Fouillet, Nelly Fournet, Nadege Caillère, Arnaud Musset, Lucas Mercier, Cécile Durand, Céline Caserio-Schönemann, Loic Josseran
Using Search Volume for Surveillance of Medication Prescribing PDF
Jacob E. Simmering, Linnea A. Polgreen, Philip M. Polgreen
Refactoring INDICATOR into an Advanced Information System for One Health Monitoring PDF
Ian Brooks, Mario Felarca, Bernie A'cs
Tracking Drug Overdose Trends in Ohio using ED Chief Complaints PDF
Alise L. Brown, William E. Storm, Brian E. Fowler
Evaluating Utility of Cold-Injury Syndromic Surveillance Data in New York City PDF
Kathryn Lane, Ramona Lall, Katherine Wheeler, Kazuhiko Ito, Thomas Matte
Long-Term Asthma Trend Monitoring in New York City: A Mixed Model Approach PDF
Stephen E. Schachterle, Robert W. Mathes, Marc Paladini, Don Weiss
Traditional and Mobile Public Health Alert Communications with Health Care Providers PDF
Debra Revere, Ian Painter, Janet Baseman
Evaluation of Heat-related Illness Surveillance Based on Chief Complaint Data from New Jersey Hospital Emergency Rooms PDF
Michael Berry, Jerald Fagliano, Stella Tsai, Katharine McGreevy, Andrew Walsh, Teresa Hamby
Paralysis Analysis: Investigating Paralysis Visit Anomalies in New Jersey PDF
Teresa Hamby, Stella Tsai, Carol Genese, Andrew Walsh, Lauren Bradford, Edward Lifshitz
Differentiating ZIP Codes in Syndromic Data; What Can They Tell Us? PDF
Marc Paladini, Romona Lall, Stephen E. Schachterle
Open Source Health Intelligence (OSHINT) for Foodborne Illness Event Characterization PDF
Catherine Ordun, Jane W. Blake, Nathanael Rosidi, Vahan Grigoryan, Christopher Reffett, Sadia Aslam, Anastasia Gentilcore, Marek Cyran, Matthew Shelton, Juergen Klenk
Geographical Information Systems: A Tool to Map and Analyze Disease Spread PDF
Indumathi Srinath, Barbara Szonyi, Maria Esteve-Gassent, Blanca Lupiani, Raju Gautam, Alfonso Clavijo, Sang-shin Park, Renata Ivanek-Miojevic
LOINC and SNOMED CT Code Use in Electronic Laboratory Reporting - US, 2011 PDF
Sanjaya Dhakal, Sherry Burrer, Carla A. Winston, Matthew Miller, Samuel L. Groseclose
A Review of Evaluations of Electronic Event-based Biosurveillance Systems PDF
Kimberly Gajewski, Jean-Paul Chretien, Amy Peterson, Julie Pavlin, Rohit Chitale
Evaluation of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) using Bacillary Dysentery as a Priority Disease, Tanzania, 2012 PDF
Alfred G. Mwanyika, Senga Sembuche, Agricola Joachim
Flu Near You: An Online Self-reported Influenza Surveillance System in the USA PDF
Rumi Chunara, Susan Aman, Mark Smolinski, John S. Brownstein
ILI and SARI Surveillance along the California & Arizona Borders with Mexico, 2011-12 PDF
Pete Kammerer, Gary Brice, Anthony Hawksworth, Chris Myers
A Grid Based Approach to Share Public Health Surveillance Applications - The R Example PDF
Kailah Davis, Julio Facelli
Characteristics of Veterans Accessing the Veterans Affairs Telephone Triage Who Have Depression or Suicidal Ideation: Opportunities for Intervention PDF
Alison Ludwig, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Patricia Schirmer, Mark Holodniy
Implementation of a Mobile-Based Surveillance System in Saudi Arabia for the 2009 Hajj PDF
Wei Li
The Biosurveillance Resource Directory - A One-Stop Shop for Systems, Sources, and Tools PDF
Kristen Margevicius, Mac Brown, Lauren Castro, William B. Daniel, Eric N. Generous, Kirsten Taylor-McCabe, Alina Deshpande
Analysis of Heat Illness using Michigan Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Fatema Mamou, Tiffany Henderson
Selecting Targeted Symptoms/Syndromes for Syndromic Surveillance in Rural China PDF
Li Tan, Jie Zhang, Liwei Cheng, Weirong Yan, Vinod K. Diwan, Lu Long, Shaofa Nie
FSWs Typology and Condoms Use Among HIV High Risk Groups in Sindh, Pakistan: A Developing Country Perspective PDF
Suleman M. Otho, Shazia Perveen, Qamar Abbas
Estimation of Influenza Incidence by Age in the 2011/12 Seasons in Japan using SASSy PDF
Yasushi Ohkusa, Yoshinori Yasui, Tamie Sugawara, Nobuhiko Okabe, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Kazunori Oishi
Utilization of Various Data Sources to Locate West Nile Clusters in Tulsa County PDF
Nicole Schlaefli, Kiran Duggirala, Scott Meador
Risk of Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in Relation to Temperature PDF
Robert Mathes, Kazuhiko Ito, Thomas Matte
Using Medications Sales from Retail Pharmacies for Syndromic Surveillance in Rural China PDF
Weirong Yan, Liwei Cheng, Li Tan, Miao Yu, Shaofa Nie, Biao Xu, Lars Palm, Vinod Diwan
Evaluation of Cholera and Other Diarrheal Disease Surveillance System, Niger State, Nigeria-2012 PDF
Adebobola T. Bashorun, Anthony Ahumibe, Saliman Olugbon, Patrick Nguku, Kabir Sabitu
Parametric Uncertainty in Intra-Herd Foot-and-Mouth Disease Epidemiological Models PDF
Eric Nicholas Generous
An Improved Algorithm for Outbreak Detection in Multiple Surveillance Systems PDF
Angela Noufaily, Doyo Enki, Paddy Farrington, Paul Garthwaite, Nick Andrews, Andre Charlett
Usefulness of Syndromic Surveillance for Early Outbreak Detection in Small Islands: The Case of Mayotte PDF
Pascal Vilain, Olivier Maillard, Julien Raslan-Loubatie, Mohamed Ahmed Abdou, Tinne Lernout, Laurent Filleul
Syndromic Surveillance Based on Emergency Visits: A Reactive Tool for Unusual Events Detection PDF
Pascal Vilain, Arnaud Bourde, Pierre-Jean Marianne dit Cassou, Yves Jacques-Antoine, Philippe Morbidelli, Laurent Filleul
Case Based Surveillance for Measles in Lagos, South Western Nigeria, September 2011 PDF
Olawunmi O. Adeoye, Abimbola Aman-Oloniyo, Patrick Nguku, Abiola Oduneye, Modupe Dawodu
International Collaboration for Improved Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response in India PDF
Obaghe Edeghere, Giri Shankar, Alastair Bartholomew, SriKrishna Ramachandra, Vivek Singh, Pradeep Banandur, Linda Parr, Kenny Yap, Babatunde Olowokure, Sue Ibbotson
Monitoring the Impact of Heat Waves with Emergency Service Utilization Data in Los Angeles County PDF
Emily Kajita, Patricia Araki, Monica Luarca, Bessie Hwang
The Activity of Rabies Vaccines against Genetic Clusters of Rabies Virus Circulating at the Territory of Ukraine PDF
Mykola Ivanov, Ivan Polupan, Oleg Deryabin
Improvement Control System of Rabies in Ukraine PDF
Serhiy Nychyk, Ostap Zhukorskiy, Ivan Polupan, Mykola Ivanov, Alina Nikitova
Surveillance of Heat-related Morbidity: Relation to Heat-related Excess Mortality PDF
Robert Mathes, Kristina B. Metzger, Kazuhiko Ito, Thomas Matte
Evaluating Biosurveillance System Components using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis PDF
Eric Nicholas Generous, Alina Deshpande, Mac Brown, Lauren Castro, Kristen Margevicius, William Brent Daniel, Kirsten Taylor-McCabe
Synergies Between Human and Animal Health Syndromic Surveillance: Triple-S Outputs PDF
Céline Dupuy, Jean-Baptiste Perrin, Anne Bronner, Didier Calavas, Pascal Hendrikx, Anne Fouillet
An Algorithm That Identifies Coronary and Heart Failure Events In The Electronic Health Record PDF
Jawali Jaranilla, Thomas E. Kottke, Courtney J. Baechler
An Integrated Syndromic Surveillance System for Monitoring Scarlet Fever in Taiwan PDF
Wan-Jen Wu, Yu-Lun Liu, Hung-Wei Kuo, Wan-Ting Huang, Shiang-Lin Yang, Jen-Hsiang Chuang
Detecting the Determinants of Health in Social Media PDF
Caitlin Rivers, Bryan Lewis, Sean Young
Content Analysis of Syndromic Twitter Data PDF
Bethany Keffala, Mike Conway, Son Doan, Nigel Collier
Evaluating Syndromic Data for Surveillance of Non-infectious Disease PDF
Ramona Lall, Marc Paladini
Towards Linking Anonymous Authorship in Casual Sexual Encounter Ads PDF
Jason A. Fries, Alberto M. Segre, Philip M. Polgreen
New Strategy to Monitor and Assess Laboratory Biosafety Programs PDF
Heather N. Meeks, Betiel H. Haile, Ngozi A. Erondu, Lisa Ferland, Meeyoung Park, Scott J. McNabb
Evaluating the Variation on Public Health's Perceived Field Need of Communicable Disease Reports PDF
Uzay Kirbiyik, Roland Gamache, Brian E. Dixon, Shaun Grannis
Evaluation of the Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid Induced Liver Disease (PAILD) Active Surveillance System in Tigray, Ethiopia PDF
Cindy Chiu, Danielle Buttke, Girmay Welde, Richard Luce, Asfaw Debela, Amsalu Bitew, Tesfaye Bayleyegn, Sara Vagi, Matthew Murphy, Daniel Woldemichael, Teshale Seboxa, Gidey G. Libanos, Zeyeda Beyene, Yohannes G. Hawaria, Daddi Jimma, Israel Tareke, Danielle Rentz, Colleen Martin
Potential use of multiple surveillance data in the forecast of hospital admissions PDF
Eric H. Lau, Dennis K.M. Ip, Benjamin J. Cowling
Can Novel Flu Surveillance Be Conducted With Limited Resources? PDF
Alan Siniscalchi, Amanda Schulte
Who's Not Coming to Dinner? Evaluating Trends in Online Restaurant Reservations for Outbreak Surveillance PDF
Elaine O. Nsoesie, David L. Buckeridge, John S. Brownstein
The Natural Reservoirs of Salmonella Enteritidis in Populations of Wild Birds PDF
Olga Obukhovska
A Bayesian Approach to Characterize Hong Kong Influenza Surveillance Systems PDF
Ying Zhang, Ali Arab, Michael A. Stoto
HIV Surveillance in India: An Overview & Implications for Future PDF
Divya Persai
Evaluating Usefulness of Maine's Syndromic Surveillance System for Hospitals, 2012 PDF
Stefanie DeVita, Amy Robbins
Surveillance-Based Program Planning PDF
Rossi Sanusi
Incorporation of School Absenteeism Data into the Maryland Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) PDF
Zachary Faigen, Anikah Salim, Isaac Ajit
On the implementation of the Biological Threat Reduction Program in the Republic of Uzbekistan PDF
Laziz Tuychiev, Marifjon Madaminov
Multiagent Simulation of the Hepatitis B Epidemic Process PDF
Tetyana Chumachenko, Dmytro Chumachenko, Olexandr Sokolov
Risk and Protective Factors for Arthritis Status and Severity PDF
Masaru Teramoto, Fred Breukelman, Ferdinando A. Gatto, Sheniz Moonie
Disease Models for Event Prediction PDF
Courtney D. Corley, Laura Pullum
Serum Zinc Concentration and Acute Diarrhea in Children from Different Regions of Uzbekistan PDF
Gulnara A. Ibadova, T. A. Merkushina, E. S. Abdumutalova, Aybek V. Khodiev
Challenges and Opportunities in Routine Time Series Analysis of Surveillance Data PDF
Isabelle Devaux, Esther Kissling, Gilles Desve, Frantiska Hruba, Francisco Luquero, Chantal Quinten, Joana Gomes-Diaz, Marta Valenciano, Denis Coulombier
Mining Surveillance Data: Does Radiation Treatment of Prostate Cancer Cause Rectal Cancer? PDF
John W. Morgan, Brice Jabo, Mark E. Ghamsary, Kevork Kazanjian
User Experience of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Respiratory Disease Dashboard PDF
Jennifer A. Cockrill, Alice Y. Tsai, Timothy C. Campbell, Jean-Paul Chretien, Julie A. Pavlin, Ronald L. Burke
U.S. Dept. Veterans Affairs (VA) SMEC-bio Reporting for Leadership Decision Support PDF
Shantini D. Gamage, Loretta A. Simbartl, Stephen M. Kralovic, Katherine S. Wallace, Gary A. Roselle
Using Change Point Detection for Monitoring the Quality of Aggregate Data PDF
Ian Painter, Julie Eaton, Bill Lober
Raccoons in San Diego County as Sentinels for West Nile Virus Surveillance PDF
Sarah C. Marikos, Karen L. Ferran, Esmeralda Iniguez-Stevens, Nikos Gurfield
One World, One Health, One Medicine: An Assessment of Intersectoral Collaboration in Avian Influenza Control in Lagos State PDF
Abimbola Aman-Oloniyo, Olalekan Allison, Musbau A. Razaq
Collaborative Automation Reliably Remediating Erroneous Conclusion Threats (CARRECT) PDF
Jonathan C. Lansey, Paul Picciano, Ian Yohai, Fred Grant, Robert Gern
Enhanced Surveillance during the Democratic National Convention, Charlotte, NC PDF
Lana Deyneka, Amy Ising, Meichun Li
Novel Emergency Department High Utilizer Surveillance In New Hampshire PDF
David J. Swenson, Cole Zanetti, Elizabeth R. Daly, Jose T. Montero
Adaptation of GUARDIAN for Syndromic Surveillance During the NATO Summit PDF
Julio C. Silva, Dino P. Rumoro, Shital C. Shah, Gillian S. Gibbs, Marilyn M. Hallock, Michael Waddell, Shon Doseck

Roundtables

Advancing Surveillance Outside the USA: The Canadian Policy, Practice, and Research Context PDF
Effie Gournis, David Buckeridge
Implications of ICD-9/10 CM Transition for Public Health Surveillance: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned from Multiple Sectors of Public Health PDF
Peter Hicks, Atar Baer
Disease Surveillance and Achieving Synergy In Public Health Quality Improvement PDF
Peggy A. Honoré, Laura C. Streichert
Defining Public Health Situation Awareness - Outcomes and Metrics for Evaluation PDF
Don Olson, Rob Mathes, Marc Paladini, Kevin Konty
Advancing Surveillance of Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease - Path Forward PDF
Elissa R. Weitzman, Nadia Waheed

System Showcase Demonstrations

National Collaborative for Bio-Preparedness PDF
Meredith Arasaratnam, David Potenziani, Marc Hoit, Colleen Jenkins, Charles Cairns
One Health Surveillance with Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System PDF
Alexey V. Burdakov, Andrey O. Ukharov, Thomas G. Wahl
BioSense 2.0 PDF
Kelley G. Chester
Biosurveillance Adaptable Framework for Teaming, Exploration and Reuse (BioAFTER) PDF
Timothy Dasey, Lars Fiedler
TRACnet: A National Phone-based and Web-based Tool for the Timely Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response in Rwanda PDF
Kayumba Kizito, Kabeja Adeline, Koama Jean Baptiste, Asiimwe Anita, Binagwaho Agnes, Pamela Johnson, Nyatanyi Thierry
SAGES Update: Electronic Disease Surveillance in Resource-Limited Settings PDF
Sheri L. Lewis, Timothy C. Campbell, Jacqueline S. Coberly, Richard A. Wojcik, Shraddha V. Patel, Brian Feighner
A Web-based Electronic Health Record System for National Surveillance PDF
Jake R. Marcus
Establishment of a One Health Surveillance Initiative in the CA/Baja CA Border Region PDF
Sarah C. Marikos, Karen L. Ferran, Esmeralda Iniguez-Stevens, Francisco Javier Monge Navarro
A Binational Model of Collaboration for Enhancing Cross-border ID Surveillance PDF
Kristine Ortwine, Karen Ferran, Esmeralda Iniguez-Stevens
Fusion Analytics: A Data Integration System for Public Health and Medical Disaster Response Decision Support PDF
Dina B. Passman
Bayesian Contact Tracing for Communicable Respiratory Disease PDF
Ayman Shalaby, Daniel Lizotte


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