Search Results - subject:"Syndromic Surveillance"

Detecting the Visible: The Discursive Construction of Health Threats in a Syndromic Surveillance System Design

Cakici, Baki; Sanches, Pedro - In: Societies 4 (2014) 3, pp. 399-413

European Commission co-funded syndromic surveillance project called SIDARTHa (System for Information on Detection and Analysis … be seen and for what remains invisible. Finally, we argue that syndromic surveillance discourse privileges expertise in … knowledge over local and context-dependent knowledge. We conclude that syndromic surveillance contributes to a shift in broader …

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A Confidence-based Aberration Interpretation Framework For Outbreak Conciliation

Shamir N Mukhi - University of Manitoba, Public Health Agency of Canada - 2010

Health surveillance can be viewed as an ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data for use in planning, implementation, and evaluation of a given health system, in potentially multiple spheres (ex: animal, human, environment). As we move into a sophisticated...

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A three-state recursive sequential Bayesian algorithm for biosurveillance

Zamba, K.D.; Tsiamyrtzis, Panagiotis; Hawkins, Douglas M. - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 58 (2013) C, pp. 82-97

method is applied to syndromic surveillance data gathered in the United States (US) District of Columbia metropolitan area. …

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Assessing the Early Aberration Reporting System's Ability to Locally Detect the 2009 Influenza Pandemic

Hagen, Katie S.; Fricker, Ronald D; Hanni, Krista D.; … - In: Statistics, Politics, and Policy 2 (2011) 1

The Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) is used by some local health departments (LHDs) to monitor emergency room and clinic data for disease outbreaks. Using actual chief complaint data from local public health clinics, we evaluate how EARS—both the baseline system distributed by the CDC...

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