Vol 5, No 1 (2008)

Surveillance Innovations

Table of Contents

Comparison of Influenza-like Illness Syndrome Classification Between Two Syndromic Surveillance Systems PDF
Taj Azarian, S Zaheer, S Winn, A Kite-Powell 1
Surveillance in the Cloud: A New Platform for Disease Search and Situational Awareness PDF
David W Bauer, Mojdeh Mohtashemi 2
Discrete Data from Electronic Medical Records - Next Generation Data Sets for Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Marc A Bellazzini, James E Svenson 3
Fever as a Measure for Early Detection of Influenza Outbreaks in the Emergency Department PDF
Marc A Bellazzini, Ronald E Gangnon, James E Svenson 4
Socio-Demographic and Temporal Patterns of Emergency Department Patients Who Do Not Reside in Miami-Dade County, 2007 PDF
Rene Borroto, Guoyan Zhang 5
Web-Based Spatio-Temporal Display of NC DETECT Surveillance Data PDF
Shel Brannan, Noah Evens, Clifton Barnett, Lana Deyneka Deyneka, Amy Ising, Bill Wheaton, Jay Rineer 6
INDICATOR: A Cyberenvironment for Biosurveillance and Response PDF
Ian S Brooks, Wendy Edwards 7
Ontology of a Cyberenvironment for Malaria Surveillance PDF
Ian Brooks, Arkalgud Ramaprasad 8
Support Vector Machines for Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Anna L Buczak, Linda J Moniz, Joseph Lombardo 9
Timeliness of Ambulatory Data for Age-Specific ILI Surveillance PDF
Emily H Chan, Robyn Tamblyn, David Buckeridge 10
Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI Syndrome PDF
Hwa-Gan Chang, Jian-Hua Chen, Dennis G Cochrane, John R Allegra, Kathryn Schmit, Jerome I Tokars, Perry F Smith 11
Identifying Respiratory-Related Clinical Conditions from ED Reports with Topaz PDF
Wendy W Chapman, David Chu, John Dowling, Henk Harkema 12
A Model and Archetype Based Interoperability Framework for Near Real-Time Surveillance Systems PDF
H Chaudet, G Texier, JB Meynard, L Pellegrin, JP Boutin, X Deparis 13
Automatic and Secure Data Transfer of Syndromic Data between Hospitals and Public Health Using the PHINMS PDF
Y Emily Cheng, Himal Dhotre, Debjani Das, Dan Drociuk 14
The Utility of Patient Chief Complaint and ICD 9 Classifiers for the Influenza Sub-Syndrome PDF
Dennis G. Cochrane, John R. Allegra, Christopher McCarthy, Jeffrey Luk, Hwa-Gan Chang, Jian-Hua Chen 15
Accounting for Acceleration of Disease Rates with Age in Biosurveillance Systems: The SIMPLE Method PDF
Steven A. Cohen, Elena N. N. Naumova 16
Assessing the Coverage of BioCaster Terms in Web News PDF
Nigel Collier, Reiko Matsuda Goodwin, Ai Kawazoe, Son Doan 17
Automated Generation of Hypothesis of Processes Causing Clusters PDF
Jamison Conley 18
Anomaly Pattern Detection for Biosurveillance PDF
Kaustav Das, Jeff Schneider, Daniel B. Neill 19
Extending Comparisons Beyond Time and Space: Looking for Similarities Between Diseases PDF
Victor del Rio Vilas, Sophie Ancelet, Juan J. Abellan, Colin Birch, Sylvia Richardson 20
Automated Surveillance To Detect An Influenza Epidemic: Which Respiratory Syndrome Should We Monitor? PDF
Sylvain DeLisle, Fang Tian, Paul Sun, Brett R. South, Gary Smith, Holly Gaff, Matthew Samore, Trish M. Perl 21
Free-Text Processing To Enhance Detection Of Acute Respiratory Infections PDF
Sylvain DeLisle, Brett R. South, Shobba Phansalkar, Trish M. Perl, Adi Gundlapalli, Matthew Samore 22
Using Biosurveillance Whole-System Facsimiles To Compare Aberrancy-Detection Methods: Should BioSense Use SatScan? PDF
Sylvain DeLisle, Fang Tian, Hongzhang Zheng, Paul Sun, Brett R. South, Holly Gaff, Matthew Samore, Trish M. Perl 23
A Closer Look at Developing a Statewide Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural State PDF
Himal Dhotre, Debjani Das, Emily Cheng, Dan Drociuk 24
Limb Elephantiasis as Predictor for the Occurrence and Spread of Lymphatic Filariasis in Kano State, Nigeria PDF PDF
M. M. Dogara, I. H. Nock, R. I.S. Agbede 25
GIS Mapping of Occupational Health Visit Data from a Southeastern Ontario Tertiary Care Hospital PDF
Tara L. Donovan, Andrew Kurc, Chris Sambol, Jennifer Carpenter, Kieran M. Moore 26
Optimizing Simultaneously the Geometry and the Internal Cohesion of Clusters PDF
Anderson R. Duarte, Luiz Duczmal, Sabino J. Ferreira, André L.F. Cancado 27
Geographically Meaningful Cluster Scanning Through Weak Link Correction PDF
Luiz Duczmal, Sabino J. Ferreira, Anderson R. Duarte, Marcus V. Soares, Eliane D. Gontijo, André L.F. Cancado, Ricardo H.C. Takahashi 28
State Surveillance Data Improves a Clinical Prediction Model for Pertussis PDF
Andrew M. Fine, Ben Y. Reis, Lise Nigrovic, Don Goldmann, Tracy LaPorte, Karen Olson, Kenneth Mandl 29
Comparison of the Performances of Statistical Methods to Detect Outbreaks PDF
Anne Fouillet, Franck Golliot, Nadège Caillère, Claude Flamand, Claudine Kamali, Yann Le Strat, Lucie Leon, Laurence Mandereau-Bruno, Jérôme Pouey, Oliver Retel, Vérène Wagner 30
Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance through Cross-border Data Sharing PDF
Brian E. Fowler, Michael E. Wade, Robert J. Campbell, Stephen J. DeFrancesco, Shaun J. Grannis, David A. Trepanier 31
Choice of Baseline Period for Limited Baseline Aberration Detection Methods PDF
Ronald E. Gangnon, Marc A. Bellazzini 32
Cluster Detection Comparison in Syndromic Surveillance PDF
C Goranson, K Takahashi, T Tango, A Cajigal, M Paladini, E L. Murray, T Nguyen, K Konty, F Hardisty 33
Using NLP on VA Electronic Medical Records to Facilitate Epidemiologic Case Investigations PDF
Adi V. Gundlapalli, Brett R. South, Wendy W. Chapman, Shobha Phansalkar, Shuying Shen, Sylvain Delisle, Trish Perl, Matthew H. Samore 34
HWR at the Contest: A Holt-Winters-Based Method Applied to Simulated Outbreaks PDF
Sylvia Halász Halász, Colin Goodall, Arnold Lent 35
The BioSense Influenza Module PDF
Craig Hales, Roseanne English, Paul McMurray, Jerome Tokars 36
Interactive Detection of Spatial Clusters PDF
Frank Hardisty, Jamison Conley 37
BioSense Participation by Non-Federal Hospitals PDF
Peter Hicks, Alicia Edwards, Roseanne English, Jerome I. Tokars 38
Contact Tracing in Asymptomatic Diseases Under Elimination PDF
Doracelly Hincapié-Palacio, Rubén Darío Gómez-A, Juan Ospina-G 39
Survey of Syndromic Surveillance Uses PDF
Hillary Kleiner, Katherine Endress, Anthony Barbagallo 40
(Syndromic) Surveillance of Birthweight, Gestation, and Infant Mortality PDF
Kevin Konty, Katherine Bartley, Aviva Schwarz, Martin Kulldorff 41
Use of Time Series Models for Multi-Stream Surveillance PDF
Eric HY Lau, Benjamin J. Cowling, Lai Ming Ho, Gabriel M. Leung 42
in silico Surveillance: Using Detailed Computer Simulations to Develop and Evaluate Outbreak Detection PDF
Bryan Lewis, Kate Wendelsdorf, Ken Kleinman 43
The Day-of-the-Week Effect: A Study Across the Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System PDF
Ross Maciejewski, Stephen Rudolph, Shaun J. Grannis, David S. Ebert 44
Learning Outbreak Regions for Bayesian Spatial Biosurveillance PDF
Maxim Makatchev, Daniel B. Neill 45
Multi-Agency and Hospital, Syndromic Surveillance System in Montana PDF
William C. Mohlenbrock, Raymond F. Rogers 46
Application of Nonlinear Data Analysis Methods to Locating Disease Clusters PDF
Linda Moniz, William Peter 47
Fast and Flexible Outbreak Detection by Linear-Time Subset Scanning PDF
Daniel B. Neill 48
Mixture Likelihood Ratio Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak Detection PDF
Jarad B. Niemi, Michael D. Porter, Brian J. Reich 49
A Comparison of Locally Developed Influenza-like Syndrome Definitions Using Electronic Emergency Department Data in Boston and New York City PDF
Marc Paladinia, Justin Pendarvis, Erin L. Murray, Julia Gunn, Donald Olson 50
ESSENCE Version 2.0: The Department of Defense’s Worldwide Syndromic Surveillance System Receives Several Enhancements PDF
David C. Pattie, Martin J. Atherton, David J. Savory, Gale E. Savage, Kenneth L. Cox 51
In Search of a Controlled Vocabulary for Emergency Department Chief Complaint: A Comparison of Four Published Chief Complaint Lists PDF
Trevor G. Phillips, Stephanie W. Haas, Judith E. Tintinalli, Debbie Travers, Anna Waller 52
Age Specific Correlations between Influenza Laboratory Data and Influenza-like Syndrome Definitions in Boston and New York City PDF
Justin Pendarvis, Erin L. Murray, Marc Paladini, Julia Gunn, Donald R. Olson 53
Arizona’s Integrated Influenza Surveillance for School Children PDF
Yue Qiu, Laura Erhart 54
UPDATE: Bird Flu, the Media and Syndromic Surveillance, 2006-7 PDF
Cynthia F. Racer 55
Modeling Disease Surveillance and Assessing its Effectiveness for Detection of Acute Respiratory Outbreaks in Resource-Limited Settings PDF
Liane Ramac-Thomas, Trudy Philip, Howard Burkom, Jacqueline Coberly, Sheri Happel Lewis, Jean-Paul Chretien 56
Evaluating the Validity of ED Visit Data for Biosurveillance PDF
Aaron Ratcliffe, Clifton Barnett, Amy Ising, Anna Waller 57
The Utility of Biosurveillance for Public Health Practice: The Findings from Two Case Studies PDF
Lucia Rojas Smith, Neely Kaydos Daniels, Tonya Farris, Clifton Barnett, Amy Ising 58
Natural Language Processing: Can it Help Detect Cases and Characterize Outbreaks? PDF
Matthew H. Samore 59
Detection of Enteric Disease Epidemics Using a Diarrhea-specific Category PDF PDF
Loren E. Shaffer, Robert T. Rolfs, Rene M. Calanan 60
Pilot Evaluation of Syndrome-specific School Absenteeism Data for Public Health Surveillance PDF PDF
Shuying Shen, Nicole Stone, Brian Hatch, Robert Rolfs, Brett South, Adi Gundlapalli, Catherine Staes, Matthew Samore 61
Utility of ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes for Public Health Surveillance PDF
Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett, Tammy Bischoff, William Cleve, Rachel Long 62
Using School Sentinel Sites for the Early Detection of Influenza PDF PDF
Ximena Somoza, Anamika Pandya, Christy Vogt 63
Identifying Contextual Features to Improve the Performance of an Influenza-Like Illness Text Classifier PDF
Brett R. South, Shuying Shen MStat, Sylvain Delisle, Trish Perl, Matthew H. Samore, Adi V. Gundlapalli, Wendy W. Chapman 64
Detection of Shigella Outbreaks in Argentina Using WHONET and SaTScan PDF
John Stelling, Katherine Yih, Marcelo Galas, Martin Kulldorff, Mariana Pichel, Raquel Terragno, Ezequiel Tuduri, Salomé Espetxe, Norma Binsztein, Thomas F. O'Brien, Richard Platt 65
Mental Health Emergency Department Visits in Houston: Developing a Post-Disaster Mental Health Surveillance System PDF
Allison Stewart, Mary Carvalho, Debo Awosika-Olumo 66
A Comparison of SaTScan and FleXScan for Outbreak Detection and Monitoring PDF
Kunihiko Takahashi, Toshiro Tango 67
A New Space-Time Scan Statistic for Timely Outbreak Detection Taking Overdispersion Into Account PDF
Toshiro Tango, Kunihiko Takahashi 68
Using UMLS Semantic Network to Identify Search Terms for Biosurveillance PDF
Debbie Travers, Matthew Scholer, John Crouch, Scott Wetterhall 69
Syndromic Surveillance for Localized Outbreaks of Lower-Respiratory Infections: Does it Work? PDF
Cees van den Wijngaard, Liselotte van Asten, Wilfrid van Pelt, Gerda Doornbos, Nico J.D. Nagelkerke, Wim van de Hoek, Hans van Vliet, Marion P.G. Koopmans 70
Application of Natural Language Parsers To Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Michael J. Waddell, César R. Meraz, Julio C. Silva, Dino P. Rumoro 71
Comparison of Regression Models with Modified Time Series Methods for BioSurveillance PDF
Jian Xing, Howard Burkom, Jerome Tokars 72
Estimation And Validation of An Outbreak Simulator PDF
Min Zhang, Xiaohui Kong, Garrick L. Wallstrom 73