Vol 5, No 3 (2008)

Applications of Methodologies to New Domains

Table of Contents

How Bad Is It? Using Biosurveillance Data to Monitor the Severity of Seasonal Flu PDF
Atar Baer, Jeff Duchin 161
Monitoring Staphylococcus Infection Trends with Biosurveillance Data PDF
Atar Baer, Jeff Duchin 162
Clostridium Difficile, Surveillance Using Laboratory Data from BioSense Hospitals PDF
Benoit R. Stephen, Roseanne English, Jerome I. Tokars 163
Surveillance for Health Effects Secondary to an Expected Rise in Air Pollution PDF
Pamela A. Berenbaum, Lori Cragin, Austin Sumner 164
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Sentinel Sample Size in Syndromic Surveillance Using a Space-Time Permutation Method PDF
Richard Brand, Jie Huang, Ken Kleinman, Richard Platt, John Hsu 165
Improvement in Performance of Ngram Classifiers with Frequent Updates PDF
Phillip Brown, Sylvia Halasz, Colin Goodall, Dennis Cochrane, John R. Allegra 166
Evaluation of Alerting Sparse-Data Streams of Population Healthcare-Seeking Data PDF
Howard Burkom, Yevgeniy Elbert 167
Monitoring Spatial Patterns of Adverse Drug Events and Morbidity in New York City Using Syndromic Data Streams PDF
Alejandro Cajigal, Deliah Heller, Denise Paone, Kevin Konty 168
Does Climate Predict the Timing of Peak Influenza Activity in the United States? PDF
Katia M.L. Charland, David L. Buckeridge, Jessica L. Sturtevant, Forrest Melton, John S. Brownstein 169
21st Century Health Care Demands New Models for Population Health Data Aggregation and Sharing: A Federated Approach PDF
Jill Cooper, Carol Diamond, Farzad Mostashari, Clay Shirky 170
Extensibility in Semantic Web Description of Syndromic Surveillance Systems PDF
Bradley D. Chruszcz, Deborah A. Stacey 171
Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System Based on General Practitioner's Data, SOS Medecins Bordeaux PDF
Elise Daudens, Gaelle Gault, Laurent Filleul 172
A Comprehensive Approach to the Assessment of Surveillance Strategies: the Case of Scrapie in Great Britain PDF
Victor Del Rio Vilas, Colin Birch, Alberto Vidal-Diez, Simon Gubbins, Marie McIntyre, Javier Guitian, Neil Nixon, Kim Stevens, Darren Green, Rowland Kao 173
A Novel Application of Syndromic Methods of Monitor Temporal Changes in the Specificity of an Oral HIV Test PDF
Joseph R. Egger, Kevin Konty, Jessica Borrelli, Julia Cummiskey, Susan Blank 174
Biosurveillance: A Definition, Scope and Description of Current Capability for a National Strategy PDF
Aaron T. Fleischauer, Pamela S. Diaz, Daniel M. Sosin 175
Canine Tick Diagnoses are a Sentinel for Tick-borne Diseases in People PDF
Larry Glickman, Sara Rhea, Seth Glickman, Anna Walker, Amy Ising, Jeff Engel 176
Antiviral Prescription Data to Enhance Influenza Surveillance PDF
Craig Hales, Roseanne English, Jerome Tokars 177
Expanding a Gazetteer-based Approach for Geo-Parsing Text from Media Reports on Global Disease Outbreaks PDF
Mikaela Keller, Clark C. Freifeld, John S. Brownstein 178
Syndromic Surveillance Reporting via CDC's Public Health Information Grid PDF
Michael Klompas, Richard Platt, Ross Lazarus 179
(Syndromic) Surveillance of Birthweight, Gestation, and Infant Mortality PDF
Kevin Konty, Katherine Bartley, Martin Kulldorff 180
Beyond Traditional Surveillance: Applying Syndromic Surveillance to Developing Settings- Opportunities and Challenges PDF
Larissa May, JP Chretien, Julie Pavlin 181
Representativeness of Emergency Department Data Reported to the BioSense System PDF
Patrick Minor, Roseanne English, Roseanne English, Jerome Tokars, Jerome Tokars 182
Using Emergency Department Disposition Data to Monitor Hospitalizations for Influenza-like Illness PDF
Erin L. Murray 183
Substance Abuse Among Young in Miami-Dade County, 2005-2007 PDF
Erin O'Connell, Guoyan Zhang, Anthoni Llau 184
Review of the ISDS Distributed Surveillance Taskforce for Real-time Influenza Burden Tracking & Evaluation (DiSTRIBuTE) Project 2007/08 Influenza Season Proof-of-concept Phase PDF
Donald R. Olson, Marc Paladini, James W. Buehler, Farzad Mostashari 185
Detecting Outbreaks and Other Clusters in Reportable Disease Data PDF
Shannon L. Page, Richard M. Thomas, Brian E. Fowler, Lynn K. Giljahn 186
Syndromic Surveillance of Gastroenteritis Using Medication Sales in France PDF
Camille Pelat, Clement Turbelin, Pierre-Yves Boelle, Bruno Lambert, Alain-Jacques Valleron 187
Automated Monitoring of Exposures Using the BioSense System PDF
Keydra Phillips, Gabriel Rainisch, Jerome Tokars 188
North Texas School Health Surveillance: First-Year Progress and Next Steps PDF
Tabatha Powell, Dean Lampman, Bill Stephens, Dave Heinbaugh 189
Indications and Warning of Pandemic Influenza Compared to Seasonal Influenza PDF
Aimee R. Reilly, Emily A. Iarocci, Carrianne M. Jung, David M. Hartley, Noele P. Nelson 190
Geographical Analysis of Heat-Related Illnesses Detected by RODS in Houston, Texas PDF
Patricia Sinawe, Riju Stephen, Mary Carvalho, Adebowale Awoksika-Olumo 191
Full Automatic Syndromic Surveillance System Using Prescription in Japan PDF
Tamie Sugawara, Kouji Kimura, Yasushi Ohkusa, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Nobuhiko Okabe 192
Monitoring Hospital Emergency Department Visits for Chief Complaints of Insect Bites after a Major Flood PDF
Richard M. Thomas, Brian E. Fowler 193
Infection Watch Live- A Real-time, Geospatial Mapping Tool of Hospital Triage Data for Public Consumption PDF
Adam van Dijk, Matt McPherson, Chris Sambol, Kieran Moore 194
Bayesian Hierarchical Models for the Evaluation and Design of Surveillance PDF
Alberto Vidal-Diez, Victor del Rio Vilas, Mark Arnold 195
What Happens in Vegas, Doesn't Stay in Vegas: Traveling Waves of Influenza in the U.S. Elderly Population, 1991-1994 PDF
Julia B. Wenger, Elena N. Naumova 197
Seasonal Patterns of Respiratory Diseases: a Proxy for Influenza? PDF
Julia B. Wenger, Elena N. Naumova 198
Amplification of Syndromic Surveillance's Role in Miami-Dade County PDF
Guoyan Zhang, Erin O'Connell, Lizbeth Londono, Fermin Leguen 199