Advances in Disease Surveillance


Volume 4: Abstracts from the 2007 Conference

of the International Society for Disease Surveillance

Abstracts are organized into topic areas
Novel Applications: Pages 1 - 21
Data Acquisition and Processing: Pages 41 - 75
Analytical Methods: Pages 81 - 123
Public Health Practice: Pages 141 - 211
Evaluation and Performance: Pages 231-272

Still available, still interesting: Volume 3, featuring original articles by Fricker,

Yiannakoulias et al., Klompas et al., and Chapman and Dowling,

and a commentary from Hripcsak


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Fricker RD. Directionally Sensitive Multivariate Statistical Process Control Procedures with Application to Syndromic SurveillanceAdvances in Disease Surveillance 2007 3:1;1-17

Vol 4 (2007)

Table of Contents

BioDefend Syndromic Surveillance System Influenza Activity Detection PDF
T. Azarian, S. Zaheer, S. Winn, L. Rios 231
Performance of a Syndromic Surveillance System for Detecting Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Following a Severe Windstorm PDF
Atar Baer, Jeff Duchin 232
Classification of Emergency Department Syndromic Data for Seasonal Influenza Surveillance PDF
Atar Baer, Jacqueline Coberly, Lang Hung, Howard Burkom, Wayne Loschen, Joseph Lombardo, Jeff Duchin 233
The Association Between Temperature and 911 Calls for Heat-Related Illness: Potential for Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Kate Bassil, Donald C. Cole, Rahim Moineddin, Wendy Lou, Elizabeth Rea 234
Benchmark Data Generation from Discrete Event Contact Network Models PDF
Emmet Beeker, David W. Bauer, Mojdeh Mohtashemi 235
Emergency Department Visits for Influenza-Like Illness and Over the Counter Sales of Flu Remedies in the National Capitol Region, 2003-2007 PDF
Heather Brown, Karen Kistner, Ivan Zapata, Al Romanosky 236
Preliminary Findings from the BioSense Evaluation Project PDF
James W. Buehler, Alexander P. Isakov, Michael J. Prietula, Donna J. Smith, Ellen A. Whitney 237
The Tradeoffs Driving Policy and Research Decisions in Biosurveillance PDF
Howard Burkom, Jacqueline Coberly, Wayne Loschen, Zaruhi Mnatsakanyan, Sheryl Happel Lewis, Joseph Lombardo 238
Effect of Work-related Mobility in the Simulation of Aerosol Anthrax Releases with BARD PDF
Aurel Cami, Garrick L. Wallstrom, William R. Hogan 239
A Pilot Study of Aberration Detection Algorithms with Simulated Data PDF
Haw-Gan Chang, Jian-Hua Chen, Dennis G. Cochrane, John R. Allegra, Howard Burkom, Jerome I. Tokars, Perry F. Smith 240
Detecting Web Rumours with a Multilingual Ontology-Supported Text Classification System PDF
Nigel Collier, Ai Kawazoe, Son Doan, Mika Shigematsu, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Lihua Jin, John McCrae, Hutchatai Chanlekha, Dinh Dien, Quoc Hung, Van Chi Nam, Koichi Takeuchi, Asanee Kawtrakul 242
Comparing the Utility of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Room Data for Disease Outbreak Detection PDF
Marcelo A. Costa, Martin Kulldorff, Ken Kleinman, W. Katherine Yih, Richard Platt, Richard Brand, John Hsu 243
Evaluating the Active Surveillance of Scrapie in the EU PDF
Victor J. Del Rio Vilas, Dankmar Bohning, Ronny Kuhnert 245
Using the Electronic Medical Record to Reduce both the Delay and the Workload Required to Detect and Influenza Epidemic PDF
Sylvain DeLisle, Zhilian Ma, Brett South, Gary Smith, Shawn Loftus, Matthew Samore, Trish M. Perl 246
Tuberculosis Surveillance, Republics of Armenia and Georgia, 2003-2004 PDF
Daniel C. Ehlman, Vladimir Davidiants, Nino Mdivani, Lyudmila Niazyan, Marina Janjgava, Gayane Sahakyan, Thea Jibuti, Scott J.N. McNabb 247
Employment and Commuting Data for the Simulation of Pandemics PDF
Moshe Feder 248
Survey of Pre-Clinical Behavior- What Do People Do When They Get Sick? PDF
Shilpa Hakre, William D. Porter, Julie A. Pavlin 250
Performance of an Adaptive Anomaly Detection Algorithm for a Low Incidence Syndrome Before and After a Major Outbreak PDF
Sylvia Halasz, Colin R. Goodall, John Allegra, Dennis Cochrane 251
Evaluation of the Surveillance System 2SE FAG Using a CDC Recommended Framework PDF
Henry L. Jefferson, Herve Chaudet, Gaetan Texier, Andrew D. Green, Bruce Dupuy, Jean-Paul Boutin, Jean-Baptiste Meynard 252
Performances of a Syndromic Surveillance System during a Heat Wave PDF
Loic Josseran, Nadege Caillere, Dominique Brun-Ney, Laurent Filleul, Laure Beaujouan, Daniele Ilef, Pascal Astagneau 253
Navy Disease Reporting System Case Validation through Use of HL7 and SADR/SIDR Databases: Chlamydia Trachomatis PDF
Gosin Kubiak, Wendi Bowman, Christopher Rennix 254
Identifying and Modeling Spatial Patterns of Heat-Related Illness in New York City PDF
Jinsong Lu, Kristina Metzger, Alejandro Cajigal, Kevin Konty, Thomas Matte 255
Syndromic Surveillance for Influenza in Washington State: A Local and Regional Perspective PDF
Nicola Marsden-Haug, Atar Baer, Hilary Metcalf, Nigel Turner, Phyllis Shoemaker, Jeff Duchin 256
Proposal of a Framework for Evaluating Military Surveillance Systems for Early Detection of Outbreaks on Duty Areas PDF
Jean-Baptiste Meynard, Herve Chaudet, Henry L. Jefferson, Andrew D. Green, Gaetan Texier, Daniel Webber, Bruce Dupuy, Jean-Paul Boutin 257
Early Detection of Tuberculosis Outbreaks among the San Francisco Homeless PDF
Mojdeh Mohtashemi, Brandon Higgs, Jennifer Grinsdale, Masae Kawamura 258
An Empirical Comparison of Spatial Scan Statistics for Outbreak Detection PDF
Daniel B. Neill 259
Diagnosis Coding Anomalies Resulting in Hemorrhagic Illness Alerts in Veterans Health Administration Outpatient Clinics PDF
G. Oda, L. Hung, J. Lombardo, R. Wojcik, J. Coberly, C. Sniegoski, M. Holodniy 260
Combining Laboratory Test Orders and Outpatient Visits to Monitor Respiratory Illness PDF
Cara H. Olsen, Julie A. Pavlin 261
Seasonal Patterns of Gastrointestinal Illness PDF
Karen L. Olson, Kenneth D. Mandl 262
Analysis of Syndrome Definitions for Gastrointestinal Illness with ICD9 Codes for Gastroenteritis during the 2006-07 Norovirus Season in Boston PDF
Justin Pendarvis, Roque Miramontes, Jeff Schlegelmilch, Aaron T. Fleischauer, Julia Gunn, Lori Hutwagner, M. Anita Barry 263
Student Rotation in a Veterinary Teaching Hospital as a Potential Surveillance Confounder PDF
Loren Shaffer, Julie Funk, Paivi Rajala-Schultz, Michael Wagner, Thomas Wittum, William Saville 264
Evaluation of the Michigan Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System PDF
Katherine D. Sheline 265
Learning Stable Multivariate Baseline Models for Outbreak Detection PDF
Sajid M. Siddiqi, Byron Boots, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Artur W. Dubrawski 266
Characterization of Patients with Clinical Features Consistent with Inhalational Anthrax in an Emergency Department Population PDF
Nicholas D. Soulakis, Lee H. Harrison 267
Correlation between Alerts Generated from Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Data Sources and Traditional Data Sources PDF
Michael W. Thompson 268
Syndromic Surveillance with Death Data: Is Crude Mortality Data Suitable for Real Time Surveillance? PDF
Liselotte van Asten, Cees van den Wijngaard, Carel Harmsen, Rianne van Gageldonk, Wilfrid van Pelt, Hans van Vliet, Marianne van der Sande, Marion Koopmans 269
Enhanced Surveillance Improved Timeliness and Sensitivity at the FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany PDF
C. J. Williams, D. Altmann, K. Schenkel 270
Simulation of Correlated Outbreak Signals for Early Aberration Reporting PDF
Jan Xing, Lori Hutwagner, Henry Rolka 271
Comparison of 2005-2007 Influenza-Like Illness Observed from Emergency Department Visits in Miami-Dade County PDF
Guoyan Zhang, Erin O'Connell, Maria Bustamante, Diana Rodriguez, Rene Borroto-Ponce, Fermin Leguen 272