Table of Contents
| BioDefend Syndromic Surveillance System Influenza Activity Detection | |
| T. Azarian, S. Zaheer, S. Winn, L. Rios | 231 |
| Performance of a Syndromic Surveillance System for Detecting Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Following a Severe Windstorm | |
| Atar Baer, Jeff Duchin | 232 |
| Classification of Emergency Department Syndromic Data for Seasonal Influenza Surveillance | |
| 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 | |
| Kate Bassil, Donald C. Cole, Rahim Moineddin, Wendy Lou, Elizabeth Rea | 234 |
| Benchmark Data Generation from Discrete Event Contact Network Models | |
| 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 | |
| Heather Brown, Karen Kistner, Ivan Zapata, Al Romanosky | 236 |
| Preliminary Findings from the BioSense Evaluation Project | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Aurel Cami, Garrick L. Wallstrom, William R. Hogan | 239 |
| A Pilot Study of Aberration Detection Algorithms with Simulated Data | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Moshe Feder | 248 |
| Survey of Pre-Clinical Behavior- What Do People Do When They Get Sick? | |
| 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 | |
| Sylvia Halasz, Colin R. Goodall, John Allegra, Dennis Cochrane | 251 |
| Evaluation of the Surveillance System 2SE FAG Using a CDC Recommended Framework | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Gosin Kubiak, Wendi Bowman, Christopher Rennix | 254 |
| Identifying and Modeling Spatial Patterns of Heat-Related Illness in New York City | |
| Jinsong Lu, Kristina Metzger, Alejandro Cajigal, Kevin Konty, Thomas Matte | 255 |
| Syndromic Surveillance for Influenza in Washington State: A Local and Regional Perspective | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Mojdeh Mohtashemi, Brandon Higgs, Jennifer Grinsdale, Masae Kawamura | 258 |
| An Empirical Comparison of Spatial Scan Statistics for Outbreak Detection | |
| Daniel B. Neill | 259 |
| Diagnosis Coding Anomalies Resulting in Hemorrhagic Illness Alerts in Veterans Health Administration Outpatient Clinics | |
| 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 | |
| Cara H. Olsen, Julie A. Pavlin | 261 |
| Seasonal Patterns of Gastrointestinal Illness | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Loren Shaffer, Julie Funk, Paivi Rajala-Schultz, Michael Wagner, Thomas Wittum, William Saville | 264 |
| Evaluation of the Michigan Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System | |
| Katherine D. Sheline | 265 |
| Learning Stable Multivariate Baseline Models for Outbreak Detection | |
| 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 | |
| Nicholas D. Soulakis, Lee H. Harrison | 267 |
| Correlation between Alerts Generated from Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Data Sources and Traditional Data Sources | |
| Michael W. Thompson | 268 |
| Syndromic Surveillance with Death Data: Is Crude Mortality Data Suitable for Real Time Surveillance? | |
| 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 | |
| C. J. Williams, D. Altmann, K. Schenkel | 270 |
| Simulation of Correlated Outbreak Signals for Early Aberration Reporting | |
| Jan Xing, Lori Hutwagner, Henry Rolka | 271 |
| Comparison of 2005-2007 Influenza-Like Illness Observed from Emergency Department Visits in Miami-Dade County | |
| Guoyan Zhang, Erin O'Connell, Maria Bustamante, Diana Rodriguez, Rene Borroto-Ponce, Fermin Leguen | 272 |