Vol 4 (2007)

Table of Contents

Using Syndromic Data to Investigate Gastrointestinal Illness Associated with Water Quality Complaints in Houston PDF
Olushola Adeleye, Mary Carvalho, Melissa Halm, Anthony Ehofonie, Arnulfo C. Rosario Jr., Debo Awosika-Olumo 141
BioSense Real-Time Data Initiative: Improving Emergency Preparedness- Monitoring Injury Sub-Syndromes PDF
Nelson Arboleda, Jerome Tokars, Roseanne English, Paul McMurray 142
Active Fever Surveillance During Malaria Outbreak in Western Jamaica PDF
Maung Aung 143
Syndromic Surveillance in Major Sporting Event- Jamaican Experience PDF
Maung Aung 144
Relationship between Emergency Room (ER) Syndromic Surveillance Data and Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) Surveillance in Houston, Texas PDF
Debo Awosika-Olumo, Osaro Mgbere, Salma Khuwaja, Olushola Adeleye, Raouf Arafat 145
Mutual Benefits in Partnerships between Hospital-based and Public Health Department Syndromic Surveillance Systems in Outbreak Detection and Investigation PDF
Sue Boeker, Daniel Drociuk, Shirley Jankelevich, William Kelly, Connie Steed 146
Blood Glucose Levels as an Indicator for the Early Detection of Infections in Type-1 Diabetics PDF
T. Botsis, O. Hejlesen, J. G. Bellika, G. Hartvigsen 147
Disease Surveillance Systems for Sensitive Population Groups PDF
T. Botsis, J. G. Bellika, G. Hartvigsen 148
Use of Surveillance Data to Measure the Impact of Viral Infections among Young Children PDF
Florence T. Bourgeois, Clarissa Valim, Kenneth D. Mandl 149
Partnering for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: the Georgia Syndromic Surveillance Program and the Georgia Power Company PDF
Wendy Cameron, Robert Finton, Robert Harshman, Gerald Richerson, Karl Soetebier, Susan T. Cookson 151
A Model-Based Architecture for Supporting Situational Diagnosis in Real-Time Surveillance Systems PDF
H. Chaudet, L. Pellegrin, C. Gaudin, G. Texier, B. Queyriaux, J. B. Meynard, J. P. Boutin 152
Detection of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Chief Complaint Data PDF
J. H. Chen, K. Schmit, H. G. Chang, J. R. Miller 153
Can Syndromic Surveillance Data be Useful for Monitoring Respiratory Illness Activity? PDF
Alvina Chu, Heather Brown, David Blythe, Al Romanosky 154
Using Syndromic Surveillance Data for Enhanced Case-Capture of Conditions of Public Health Interest PDF
Brit H. Colanter, Jeffrey M. Johnson, Azarnoush Maroufi, Michele M. Ginsberg, Jennifer A. Nelson 155
Mapping Bioterrorism Agents Research Literature PDF
Yan Dang, Nichalin Suakkaphong, Yulei Zhang, Roopali Wakhare, Hsinchun Chen, Cathy Larson 156
Detection of a Vaccine-preventable Reportable Disease: Comparison of Physician Reporting vs. an Electronic Syndromic Surveillance System PDF
Arthur Davidson, Connie Savor Price, Catherine McKenna, Sylvain DeLisle, Xioayan Song, Trish Perl 157
Increasing the Return-on-Investment from Syndromic Surveillance: Putting the Systems to Work for Routine Local Health Department Activities PDF
Shandy Dearth, Jospeh Gibson 158
Identifying Fractures in BioSense Radiology Reports PDF
Achintya N. Dey, Haobo Ma, Armen Asatryan, Roseanne English, Jerome Tokars 159
Cross Border Syndromic Surveillance- Overview and Recommendations from an ISDS Consultation Held in Kingston, Ontario Canada, June 11-12th, 2007 PDF
Bronwen L. Edgar, Tara Donovan, Adam van Dijk, Kieran M. Moore 160
Enhancing Public Health Surveillance by Using Multiple Data Sources for Syndromic Surveillance: The Alberta Real Time Syndromic Surveillance Net PDF
Shihe Fan, Angela Brown, Lance Honish, Trina Hughes, Joy Jaipaul, Laura Mashinter, David Meurer, Corrine Blair, Vanessa Nardelli, Laurette Phimester, Bryan Wicentowich, James Talbot 161
Event Detection in a Vulnerable Population PDF
Robert J. Finton, Priti Kolhe, Steven R. Katkowski, Wendy Camerson, Erin L. Murray 162
Implementation of a Syndromic Surveillance System Using a General Practitioner's House Calls Network PDF
C. Flamand, S. Larrieu, F. Couvy, B. Jouves, L. Josseran, L. Filleul 163
Health Impact of the 2006 Heat Wave Based on Syndromic Surveillance in Gironde, France PDF
G. Gault, S. Larrieu, C. Flamand, L. Filleul 164
Norovirus Outbreak Detected by Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance using RedBat PDF
Alicia C. Guerrero, Trudi Shim, Sandra Kemple, Nancy D. Walea, Frances Viera, Patti Grota, Jean M. Przykucki, Pranavi Sreeramoju 165
Using Electronic Surveillance Systems in Resource-Poor Settings: Why and How PDF
Sheryl Happel Lewis, Jacqueline Coberly, Richard Wojcik, Raj Ashar, Jean-Paul Chretien 166
Situational Awareness Using Web-based Annotation and Custom Reporting PDF
Amy Ising, Meichun Li, Lana Deyneka, Clifton Barnett, Matthew Scholer, Anna Waller 167
What do GPs Want in Return from a Syndromic Surveillance System? PDF
Monika A. Johansen, Gudleif Aronsen, Gunnar Hartvigsen, Johan G. Bellika 168
Syndromic Surveillance and Heat Wave: Is it Working? PDF
Loic Josseran, Nadege Caillere, Dominique Brun-Ney, Jean Rottner, Daniele Ilef, Pasacal Astagneau 169
Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance and Population-Based Health Monitoring in Los Angeles County PDF
Emily Kajita, Akbar Sharip, Patricia Araki, Bessie Hwang 170
Use of Syndromic Surveillance during a South Florida Mass Migration Exercise, Broward County PDF
Aaron Kite-Powell, John Livengood 171
An Efficient Approach to Map LOINC Concepts to Notifiable Conditions PDF
Wei Li, Jerome I. Tokars, Nikolay Lipskiy, Sundak Ganesan 172
Visits with Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections Reported to the BioSense System, 2006-2007 PDF
N. Lipskiy, J. I. Tokars, J. Copeland, R. English, N. Patel 173
Criteria for Prioritizing Statisitical Anomalies Identified in BioSense PDF
Colleen Martin, Jerome Tokars, Gabriel Rainisch, Jacqueline Burkholder, Kali Crosby 174
Results from the BioSense Jurisdiction-Specific Wbinars PDF
Colleen Martin, Kaipo Akaka, Jacqueline Burkholder, Kali Crosby, William Lei, Matthew Miller, Gabriel Rainisch, Courtney Rodi, Ericka Sinclair, Jerome Tokars 175
Use of Final Diagnosis Data for Surveillance of Respiratory Syncytial Views PDF
Colleen Martin, Jerome Tokars, Ashley Fowlkes, Catherine Panozzo 176
Development of an Introductory Continuing Medical Education Program for Public Health Professionals and Clinicians in Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Larissa May, Julie Pavlin 177
A Novel Application of Surveillance Algorithms in Childhood Immunization Program Monitoring PDF
Laura McDonald, Niko Yiannakoulias, Larry Svenson 178
Syndromic Surveillance and Influenza-like Illness in Georgia PDF
Erin L. Murray, Karl Soetebier, Wendy Cameron 179
Use of Syndromic Surveillance in the Investigation of Salmonella Wandsworth Outbreak PDF
Erin L. Murray, Richard Heffernan, Alice Yeung, Lara S. Kidoguchi, Don Weiss 180
Enhanced Public Health Surveillance Activities in Miami-Dade County for Super Bowl XLI PDF
Erin O'Connell, Guoyan Zhang, Fermin Leguen, Maria Bustamante, Rene Borroto-Ponce 181
Surveillance Tiggers for Community-Based Mitigation of Pandemic Influenza PDF
Donald R. Olson, Richard T. Heffernan 182
Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Tuberculosis in Fukuoka, Japan PDF
Daisuke Onozuka, Akihito Hagihara 183
Surveillance for Influenza Using the Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance and Hospital Admissions Syndromic Surveillance Systems, Connecticut, 2004-2007 PDF
Katherine M. Purviance, Alan J. Siniscalchi, James L. Hadler 184
The Use of BioSense Data for Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness PDF
Gabriel Rainisch, Colleen Martin, Jerome Tokars 185
Clinical Surveillance Markers of Influenza-like Illness (ILI) at a Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital PDF
S. Rao, A. Johnson, D. Abbott, J. Frederick, L. B. Caram, C. Woods 186
Missouri's Syndromic Surveillance Experience PDF
Zachary Resch, Colleen Bullock, Aaron Winslow, Amy Kelsey 187
Using Public School Absentee Data to Enhance Snydromic Surveillance in Miami-Dade County, 2007 PDF
Diana Rodriguez, Guoyan Zhang, Fermin Leguen, Erin O'Connell, Maria Bustamante 188
Comparing Telehealth and NACRS Influenza Activity to Fluwatch Surveillance Using EARS-X PDF
Elizabeth Rolland 189
Ontario's Telehealth: A Novel Snydromic Surveillance System PDF
Elizabeth Rolland, Kieran M. Moore 190
Bio-Surveillance and Enhanced Situational Awareness PDF
Jeff Schlegelmilch, Julia Gunn, Justin Pendarvis, Michael Donovan, Jan Vinje, Marc-Alain Widdowson, M. Anita Barry 191
Prospective Outbreak Detection in Pets as a Sentinel Indicator for Outbreaks in Humans PDF
Loren Shaffer 192
Introduction to the System of Combined National Surveillances for Early Detection PDF
M. Shigematsu, K. Taniguchi, N. Okabe 193
Preparing for the Pandemic: A Review of State Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plans Reveals Increased Reliance on Advanced Surveillance; Recommendations for Pandemic Influenza Surveillance PDF
Alan J. Siniscalchi 194
Super Bowl Surveillance: A Practical Exercise in Inter-Jurisdictional Public Health Information Sharing PDF
Carol Sniegoski, Wayne Loschen, Shandy Dearth, Joseph Gibson, Joseph Lombardo, Michael Wade, Matthew Westercamp, Richard Wojcik, Guoyan Zhang 195
Expert Meeting on Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Michael A. Stoto 196
Enhancing Event Communication in Disease Surveillance: ECC 2.0 PDF
Nathaniel Tabernero, Wayne Loschen, Jacqueline Coberly, Carol Sniegoski, Rekha Holtry, Marvin Sikes, Sheryl Happel Lewis 197
Laboratory Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza: Estimating the Potential Magnitude of Diagnostic Demand through Trends in Respiratory Illness PDF
Liselotte van Asten, Cees van den Wijngaard, Mariken van der Lubben, Robert Verheij, Wilfrid van Pelt, Hans van Vliet, Marion Koopmans 198
Can Monitoring Telehealth Ontario Respiratory Call Volume be a Component of an Effective Public Health Influenza Surveillance Strategy? PDF
Adam van Dijk, Don McGuinness, Kieran M. Moore 199
Can Telehealth Ontario Respiratory Call Volume be Used as a Proxy for Emergency Department Respiratory Visit Surveillance by Public Health? PDF
Adam van Dijk, Don McGuinness, Elizabeth Rolland, Kieran M. Moore 200
Exercise Demonstrates Effective Syndromic Surveillance Response Process PDF
Michael Wade, Sandra Gorsuch, Thomas Duszynski, Ryan Gentry 201
Improving Rabies Surveillance Using Syndromic Data PDF
Michael Wade, David Trepanier, James Howell 202
Increasing Local Access to Syndromic Surveillance Data PDF
Michael Wade, David Trepanier 203
One Medicine- One Health: Implementing the Vision in Real-World Public Health PDF
Tigi Ward, R. Michael Ragain, Gary Simpson, William Stanhope 204
Syndromic Surveillance for Detection of Increased Morbidity and Mortality by Influenza PDF
Cees van den Wijngaard, Liselotte van Asten, Wilfrid van Pelt, Hans van Vliet, Marion Koopmans 205
Utilizing a Patient Tracking System for Public Health Emergencies PDF
Laura Williams, Justin Pendvaris, Julia Gunn 206
Spatial Analysis of an Outbreak of Q Fever PDF
L. E. Wilson, M. Donaghy 207
Could Syndromic Surveillance Data be Used Effectively with Other Data Sources? A Transposable Local View PDF
Sarah Winn, Sa'ad Zaheer, Taj Azarian, Antoinette Alaimo 208
Analysis of Notifiable Diseases Detected by Syndromic Surveillance in Taiwan PDF
Jiunn-Shyan Julian Wu, Li-Jung Chien, Jung-Hsin Kuo, Sui-Huei Tseng 209
Evaluating Syndromic Signals from Ambulatory Care Data in Four States PDF
W. Katherine Yih, Candace Fuller, Dawn Heisey-Grove, John Hsu, Benjamin A. Kruskal, Michael Leach, James Nordin, Jessie Patton-Levine, Ella Puga, Edward Sherwood, Irene Shui, Richard Platt 210
Use of Epidemiological Knowledge to Create Syndromic Surveillance Reports PDF
Guoyan Zhang, Erin O'Connell, Fermin Leguen, Maria Bustamante, Diana Rodriguez, Rene Borroto-Ponce 211