Climate change: the public health response

H Frumkin, J Hess, G Luber… - … journal of public …, 2008 - ajph.aphapublications.org
There is scientific consensus that the global climate is changing, with rising surface
temperatures, melting ice and snow, rising sea levels, and increasing climate variability …

[HTML][HTML] Syndromic surveillance: adapting innovations to developing settings

JP Chretien, HS Burkom, ER Sedyaningsih… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
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[PDF][PDF] Syndromic surveillance systems: public health and biodefense

P Yan, H Chen, D Zeng - Annual Review of Information Sciences …, 2008 - researchgate.net
Syndromic surveillance is concerned with continuous monitoring of public health-related
information sources and early detection of adverse disease events. Syndromic surveillance …

[HTML][HTML] SANDS: a service-oriented architecture for clinical decision support in a National Health Information Network

A Wright, DF Sittig - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper, we describe and evaluate a new distributed architecture for clinical decision
support called SANDS (Service-oriented Architecture for NHIN Decision Support), which …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of syndromic surveillance for respiratory pathogen activity

C Van den Wijngaard, L Van Asten… - Emerging infectious …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Syndromic surveillance is increasingly used to signal unusual illness events. To validate
data-source selection, we retrospectively investigated the extent to which 6 respiratory …

Evaluation of a syndromic surveillance for the early detection of outbreaks among military personnel in a tropical country

H Jefferson, B Dupuy, H Chaudet, G Texier… - Journal of Public …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Background To evaluate a new military syndromic surveillance system (2SE FAG) set up in
French Guiana. Methods The evaluation was made using the current framework published …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting outbreak detection in public health surveillance: quantitative analysis to enable evidence-based method selection

DL Buckeridge, A Okhmatovskaia, S Tu… - AMIA Annual …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Public health surveillance is critical for accurate and timely outbreak detection and effective
epidemic control. A wide range of statistical algorithms is used for surveillance, and …

[PDF][PDF] Syndromic surveillance

RD Fricker Jr - 2008 - vtechworks.lib.vt.edu
Syndromic surveillance is the regular collection, analysis, and interpretation of real-time and
near-real-time indicators of diseases and other outbreaks by public health organizations …

[HTML][HTML] Electronic public health surveillance in developing settings: meeting summary

JP Chretien, SH Lewis - BMC proceedings, 2008 - Springer
In some high-income countries, public health surveillance includes systems that use
computer and information technology to monitor health data in near-real time, facilitating …

Computer-generated automatic alerts of respiratory distress after blood transfusion

HE Finlay-Morreale, C Louie… - Journal of the American …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI), the leading cause of transfusion-related
death, is underreported by clinicians. For TRALI research, a clinician-independent …