Vol 1 (2006)

Table of Contents

Abstracts from the 2005 Syndromic Surveillance Conference

Empirical/Asymptotic P-Values for Monte Carlo-Based Hypothesis Testing: An Application to Cluster Detection Using the Scan Statistic PDF
Allyson M. Abrams, Martin Kulldorff, Ken Kleinman 1
The SAS/SaTScan Macro Accessory for Cartography (SMAC) Package PDF
Allyson M. Abrams, Ken Kleinman 2
Modeling Clinician Detection Time of a Disease Outbreak Due to Inhalational Anthrax PDF
Christina Adamou, Gregory F. Cooper, Weng-Keen Wong, John N. Dowling, William R. Hogan 3
An Emergency Department Based Syndromic Surveillance System for Meningitis and Encephalitis, Maricopa County, AZ 2004 PDF
Nelson Arboleda, Aaron T. Fleischauer, Jim Sejvar, Alisa Diggs, Mare Schumacher, Sarah Santana, David Engelthaler, Ken Komatsu, Seyra Hughes, Greg Jones, Lori Hutwagner 4
Syndromic Surveillance Signal Investigation in Los Angeles County PDF
Jennifer Belden, Patricia Araki, Curtis Croker, Akbar Sharip, Rita Velikina, Bessie Hwang, Moon Kim, Raymond Aller 5
Radiographic Surveillance in Children: A System for Monitoring Epidemics Associated with Prominent Respiratory Symptoms PDF
Bema Bonsu, Namhee Kim, Soledad Fernandez, Marvin Harper 6
Visualizing and Monitoring Data in BioSense Using SaTScan PDF
Colleen A. Bradley 7
Traveling Epidemic Waves in Biosurveillance Data: Identifying Early Hotspots of Respiratory Illness PDF
John S. Brownstein, Ben Y. Reis, Kenneth D. Mandl 8
Novel Surveillance Tool Enables Public Health Use of Poison Control Calls PDF
Marcel J. Casavant 9
A Novel, Context-Sensitive Approach to Anonymizing Spatial Surveillance Data: Impact on Outbreak Detection PDF
Christopher A. Cassa, Shaun J. Grannis, J. Marc Overhage, Kenneth D. Mandl 10
ICD9 as a Surrogate for Chart Review in the Validation of a Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System PDF
Hwa-Gan Chang, Dennis G. Cochrane, Boldtsetseg Tserenpuntsag, John R. Allegra, Perry F. Smith 11
Monitoring Febrile Syndromes from Chief Complaints: Is the Information There? PDF
Wendy W. Chapman, John M. Dowling 12
The Application of Enhanced Signal Analyses to Medicaid Data PDF
Jian-Hua Chen, Kathryn J. Schmit, Kathleen K. Thoburn 13
The Role of National Retail Data Monitor (NRDM) in Gastrointestinal Illness Outbreak Investigation, Washoe County, Nevada PDF
Lei Chen 14
The Development of Virtual Data for Syndromic Surveillance Exercises PDF
Jacqueline S. Coberly, Sean P. Murphy, Steven M. Babin, Howard Burkom, Brian Feighner, Jeffrey Lin, Joseph Lombardo 15
Georgia's Strategy for Targeting Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Susan T. Cookson, James W. Buehler, Susan E. Lance 16
Modelling the Contribution of Infectious Pathogens to the Seasonality of Syndromic Data PDF
Duncan L. Cooper, Gillian E. Smith, W. John Edmunds, C. Joseph, Ewan Gerard 17
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Using Syndromic Surveillance to Identify a Neuro-Invasive Disease Outbreak in Los Angeles County PDF
Curtis Croker, Akbar Sharip, Ferlie Villacorte, Mike Tormey, Moon Kim, Bessie Hwang, Rachel Civen, Raymond Aller 18
Evaluation of Preprocessing Techniques for Chief Complaint Classification PDF
Jagan Dara, Wendy W. Chapman 19
Detection of Walkerton Gastroenteritis Outbreak Using Syndromic Surveillance of Emergency Room Records PDF
Richard F. Davies for the ECADS Partners and Collaborators 20
Sensitivity and Specificity of ICD-9 Based Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural Emergency Department, Michigan 2004 PDF
Kristin K. Dunlap, Mark L. Wilson 21
Benchmarking Temporal Surveillance Techniques PDF
James Dunyak, Mojdeh Mohtashemi, Martin Kulldorff 22
Temporal-Spatial Surveillance Techniques from Non-Homogenous Random Geometric Graphs PDF
James Dunyak, Mojdeh Mohtashemi, Kenneth Mandl 23
Geographic Categorization Methods Used in BioSense PDF
Roseanne English, Paul C. McMurray, Leslie Z. Sokolow, Henry Rolka, David Walker, John F. Quinn III, Kenneth L. Cox 24
A Case Manager Tool for Anomaly Investigation in BioSurveillance PDF
Colin Goodall, Guy Jacobson, Arnold Lent, Sam Parker, Simon Tse, John Allegra, Dennis Cochrane, Eileen Koski, Patrick Tellez 25
Visualization of Syndromic Surveillance Using GIS PDF
Christopher Goranson, Kevin Konty, Jingsong Lu, Farzad Mostashari 26
Using Open-Source Grid-Computing Technology to Improve Processing Time for Geospatial Syndromic Surveillance Data PDF
Shaun Grannis, Karen Olson, James Egg, J. Marc Overhage 27
Do Women Really Complain More than Men? Looking at Gastrointestinal Chief Complaints in Boston PDF
Julia Gunn, Justin Pendarvis, Amy Kirkwood Smith, M. Anita Barry 28
Syndromic Surveillance and Zip Code Data: The Role of Zip Codes in Understanding Populations PDF
Julia Gunn, Justin Pendarvis, M. Anita Barry 29
The NGram CC Classifier: A Novel Method of Automatically Creating CC Classifiers Based on ICD9 Groupings PDF
Sylvia Halasz, Philip Brown, Colin Goodall, Dennis G. Cochrane, John R. Allegra 30
BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience: New Jersey, November, 2004 PDF
Teresa Hamby, Colleen Bradley, Carol Ann Genese, Christina Tan, Eddy Bresnitz 31
Evaluation of Pilot Hospitals Participating in the Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System (PHESS) PDF
Elizabeth Hibler 32
Enhancing Community Connectivity for Infectious Disease Surveillance in Child Care Centres in Hong Kong PDF
Fanny Ho, Arnold Fang, Teresa Li, Teresa Choi 33
Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Amy I. Ising, Debbie A. Travers, Jennifer MacFarquhar, Aaron Kipp, Anna E. Waller 34
Systematic Comparison of Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Mike Jackson, Atar Baer, Ian Painter, Jeff Duchin 35
The Cost of Obfuscation When Reporting Locations of Cases in Syndromic Surveillance Systems PDF
Caroline Jeffery, Al Ozonoff, Laura Forsberg, Miriam Nuño, Marcello Pagano 36
Syndromic Surveillance, The First French Experience PDF
Loic Josseran, Isabelle Gailhard, B. Eboumbou, Gilles Brucker 37
Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection - Geocodes for Urban to Rural Mixed Environments: SSIC-Geo PDF
Bryant T. Karras, David Bliss, Scott Horn, Hilary Metcalf, Steve Wagner, Bill Lober, Scott Lindquist 38
Evaluating Outbreak-Detection Methods Using Simulations: Volume Under the Time-ROC Surface PDF
Ken Kleinman, Allyson Abrams 39
Using Age as Space: Looking for Citywide Age Clusters of Influenza PDF
Kevin Konty, Don Olson, Farzad Mostashari 40
Exploring the Role of Quest Diagnostics Corporate Data Warehouse for Timely Influenza Surveillance PDF
Eileen Koski, Kathryn S. Teates, Patrick Tellez, Jake Geller, Peter Heseltine, Robert W. Pinner 41
Components of Inter-Hospital Variability in Chief Complaints Assigned to a Gastrointestinal Syndrome PDF
Robert Levy, Dennis G. Cochrane, Jonathan Rothman, John R. Allegra 42
Essential Requirements for Effective Advanced Disease Surveillance PDF
Joseph S. Lombardo, Howard S. Burkom, Kathy Hurt-Mullen, Jacqueline Coberly, Sheryl L. Happel Lewis, Richard Wojcik, Wayne Loschen 43
Could Outpatient Visits Enhance Our Ability of Early Detecting Influenza-Like Illness Outbreaks? PDF
Jinsong Lu, Kevin Konty, Farzad Mostashari, Kristi Metzger 44
Surveillance of West Nile Virus Activity Using Biosense Laboratory Test Order Data PDF
Haobo Ma, Jerome I. Tokars, Roseanne English, Theresa L. Smith, Colleen Bradley, Leslie Sokolow, Henry Rolka 45
Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition PDF
Jennifer MacFarquhar, Emily Sickbert-Bennett, Anna Waller, Debbie Travers, Matthew Scholer, Megan Davies 46
An Enterprise Information Integration (EII) Approach for a Syndromic Surveillance System PDF
Uma B. Marques, Tony Barbagallo, Kevin Vigilante 47
An Enterprise Information Integration (EII) Approach for a Syndromic Surveillance System PDF
Uma B. Marques, Sue Skidmore, Tony Barbagallo 48
Too Many Signals? Frequency and Quantitative Descriptions of Detected Events PDF
Christopher McClean, Jeffrey Johnson, Brit Colanter, Michele Ginsberg 49
Emergency Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) for Public Health in Canada PDF
Kieran Moore, Mike Rimmer, Kevin O'Connor, Don McGuinness, Bronwen Edgar 50
Integration of Hospital Admissions, Febrile Respiratory Illness Screening and Triage Acuity Score into an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System PDF
Kieran Moore, Mike Rimmer, Kevin O'Connor, Don McGuinness, Bronwen Edgar 51
Multi-Sectored Approach to Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System PDF
Kieran Moore, Mike Rimmer, Kevin O'Connor, Don McGuinness, Bronwen Edgar 52
Data-Adaptive Multivariate Control Charts for Routine Health Monitoring PDF
Sean P. Murphy, Howard S. Burkom, Galit Shmueli 53
Infectious Outbreaks and Time-Distributed Effects of Exposure PDF
Elena N. Naumova, Ian B. MacNeill 54
A Bayesian Scan Statistic for Spatial Cluster Detection PDF
Daniel B. Neill, Andrew W. Moore, Gregory F. Cooper 55
An Expectation-Based Scan Statistic for Detection of Space-Time Clusters PDF
Daniel B. Neill, Andrew W. Moore, Maheshkumar R. Sabhnani, Kenny Daniel 56
Experimental Syndromic Surveillance in Japan Using Three Aspects: OTC, Outpatients Visits and Ambulance Transfer PDF
Yasushi Ohkusa, Tamie Sugawara, Hiroaki Sugiura, Yukihiko Kawaguchi, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Nobuhiko Okabe 57
Second Year of the Surveillance on Over-the-Counter Medication Sales Data in Japan PDF
Yasushi Ohkusa, Mika Shigematsu, Kiyosu Taniguchi 58
Syndromic Surveillance in Boston: Validating the Detection of Small Events and Integrating Response from a Local Health Department PDF
Justin Pendarvis, Julia Gunn, Amy Kirkwood Smith, M. Anita Barry 59
Multiple Data Sources and Reverse Engineering Could Improve Sensitivity of Surveillance Algorithms PDF
Rebecca R. Roberts, Arunachalam Einstein, Robert Gore, Ibrar Ahmad, Linda M. Kampe, Bala Hota, Pamela Diaz, Nicole Cohen, John Mansour, Brandon Zagorski, Robert A. Weinstein 60
ROC Curves in Public Health Surveillance: A First Step in Cost-Benefit Analysis PDF
Rebecca R. Roberts, Ibrar Ahmad, Arunachalam Einstein, Robert Gore, Linda Kampe, Nicole Cohen, Pamela Diaz, Bala Hota, John Mansour, Robert A. Weinstein 61
Monitoring Pharmacy Retail Data for Anomalous Space-Time Clusters PDF
Maheshkumar R. Sabhnani, Daniel B. Neill, Andrew W. Moore, Fu-Chiang Tsui, Michael M. Wagner, Jeremy U. Espino 62
Medicaid Prescription Data for Detection of Influenza-Like Illness PDF
Kathryn J. Schmit, Jian-Hua Chen, Pam Duncan, C. Waters, G. Johnson, Beth Nivin, Marilyn Kacica 63
Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza PDF
Matthew J. Scholer, Jennifer MacFarquhar, Emily Sickbert-Bennett, Aaron Kipp, Debbie Travers, Anna Waller 64
A Generalization of the AMOC Curve PDF
Yanna Shen, Weng-Keen Wong, Gregory F. Cooper 65
Syndromic Surveillance Confirmation of Extended Influenza Season PDF
Alan J. Siniscalchi, Matthew L. Carter, James L. Hadler 66
Beyond Detection: Attack Characterization with Syndromic and Clinical Data PDF
Adam A. Szpiro, David L. Buckeridge 67
The New York State BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience PDF
Kathleen K. Thoburn, James R. Miller, Jerome I. Tokars, Colleen Bradley, Duane Zomer 68
The New York State Department of Health’s Syndromic Surveillance System PDF
Kathleen K. Thoburn, James R. Miller, Jian-Hua Chen, Kathryn J. Schmit, Hwa-Gan Chang 69
Monitoring Influenza Activity Using the BioSense System, 2003-2005 PDF
Jerome I. Tokars, Gary A. Roselle, Lynette Brammer, Julie Pavlin, Roseanne English-Bullard, Stephen M. Kralovic, Philip Gould, Alicia Postema, Nicola Marsden-Haug 70
Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor for Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Debbie Travers, Aaron Kipp, Jennifer MacFarquhar, Anna Waller 71
Integrating Early Event Detection into Local Disease Surveillance and Response PDF
Nigel Turner, Alexandre Klementiev 72
Validation of Data from Medical Registrations in The Netherlands for Syndromic Surveillance Use: Comparing Respiratory Syndromes with Laboratory Surveillance PDF
Liselotte van Asten, Kees van den Wijngaard, Hans van Vliet, Wilfrid van Pelt, Marion Koopmans 73
Assessing the Impact of Syndromic Surveillance Systems on Routine Public Health Practice: Identifying and Evaluating Syndromic Signals PDF
W. Katherine Yih, James Daniel, Dawn Heisey-Grove, John Hsu, James Nordin, Debra Ritzwoller, Edward Sherwood, Richard Platt 74
A Comparison of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Department Encounters as Data Sources for Detection of Clusters of Lower Gastrointestinal Illness PDF
W. Katherine Yih, Allyson Abrams, John Hsu, Ken Kleinman, Martin Kulldorff, Richard Platt 75
Nurse Call Data for Detection of Influenza-Like Illness PDF
W. Katherine Yih, Kathryn S. Teates, Allyson Abrams, Ken Kleinman, Robert Pinner, Robert Harmon, Richard Platt 76
The Potential of Syndromic Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness in the Community for Early Warning of Institutional Gastroenteritis Outbreaks PDF
Wei Zheng, David J. Muscatello, Robin Turner, Leonie Neville 77
An Open Source Web Services Toolkit for Event Detection Algorithms PDF
William B. Lober, Dan Drozd, Thomas Lumley, Krisztian Sebestyen, Ian Painter 78
Incorporating Wildlife Data into Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Dennis M. Falls, Bobby Schopler, Amy Ising, Aaron Kipp, Anna E. Waller 79
North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System PDF
Meichum Li, Amy Ising, Anna E. Waller, Dennis Falls, Terri Eubanks, Aaron Kipp 80
The Value of Patient Reports in Syndrome Assignment PDF
Florence T. Bourgeois, Stephen C. Porter, Kenneth D. Mandl 81
Lessons Learned from a National Capitol Region Syndromic Surveillance Tabletop Exercise, Spring 2005 PDF
Alvina K. Chu, Marvin L. Sikes, Sheryl L. Happel Lewis, David Blythe, Julie A. Casani 82
Preliminary Analysis of SaTScan's Effectiveness to Detect Known Disease Outbreaks Using Emergency Department Syndromic Data in Los Angeles County PDF
Akbar Sharip, Jason Monroe, Curtis Croker, Moon Kim, Bessie Hwang, Raymond Aller, Laurene Mascola 83
The New Real Time Surveillance System within the French Forces in French Guiana PDF
Jean-Baptiste Meynard, Herve Chaudet, Gaetan Texier, Liliane Pellegrin, Xavier Deparis, Benjamin Queyriaux, Olivier Tournebize, Rene Migliani, Andre Spiegel, Jean-Paul Boutin 84
Advanced Modular Design for Scalable Biosurveillance Systems PDF
Ben Y. Reis, Chaim Kirby, Emmett Sprecher, Christopher A. Cassa, John Brownstein, William Simons, Lucas Jordan, Kenneth D. Mandl 85