Reports from a National Conference, 2003

• Preface
• Editorial Committee
• Peer Reviewers
• Overview of Syndromic Surveillance
• What is Syndromic Surveillance?
• Linking Better Surveillance to Better Outcomes
• Review of the 2003 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference — Lessons Learned and Questions To Be Answered
• System Descriptions
  • New York City Syndromic Surveillance Systems
  • Syndrome and Outbreak Detection Using Chief-Complaint Data — Experience of the Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance Project
  • Removing a Barrier to Computer-Based Outbreak and Disease Surveillance — The RODS Open Source Project
  • National Retail Data Monitor for Public Health Surveillance
  • National Bioterrorism Syndromic Surveillance Demonstration Program
  • Daily Emergency Department Surveillance System — Bergen County, New Jersey
  • Hospital Admissions Syndromic Surveillance — Connecticut, September 2001–November 2003
  • BioSense — A National Initiative for Early Detection and Quantification of Public Health Emergencies
  • Syndromic Surveillance at Hospital Emergency Departments — Southeastern Virginia
• Research Methods
  • Bivariate Method for Spatio-Temporal Syndromic Surveillance
  • Role of Data Aggregation in Biosurveillance Detection Strategies with Applications from ESSENCE
  • Scan Statistics for Temporal Surveillance for Biologic Terrorism
  • Approaches to Syndromic Surveillance When Data Consist of Small Regional Counts
  • Algorithm for Statistical Detection of Peaks — Syndromic Surveillance System for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games
  • Taming Variability in Free Text: Application to Health Surveillance
  • Comparison of Two Major Emergency Department-Based Free-Text Chief-Complaint Coding Systems
  • How Many Illnesses Does One Emergency Department Visit Represent? Using a Population-Based Telephone Survey To Estimate the Syndromic Multiplier
  • Comparison of Office Visit and Nurse Advice Hotline Data for Syndromic Surveillance — Baltimore-Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area, 2002
  • Progress in Understanding and Using Over-the-Counter Pharmaceuticals for Syndromic Surveillance
• Evaluation
• Evaluation Challenges for Syndromic Surveillance — Making Incremental Progress
• Measuring Outbreak-Detection Performance By Using Controlled Feature Set Simulations
• Evaluation of Syndromic Surveillance Systems — Design of an Epidemic Simulation Model
• Benchmark Data and Power Calculations for Evaluating Disease Outbreak Detection Methods
• Bio-ALIRT Biosurveillance Detection Algorithm Evaluation
• ESSENCE II and the Framework for Evaluating Syndromic Surveillance Systems
• Conducting Population Behavioral Health Surveillance by Using Automated Diagnostic and Pharmacy Data Systems
• Evaluation of an Electronic General-Practitioner–Based Syndromic Surveillance System
• National Symptom Surveillance Using Calls to a Telephone Health Advice Service — United Kingdom, December 2001–February 2003
• Field Investigations of Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance Signals — New York City
• Should We Be Worried? Investigation of Signals Generated by an Electronic Syndromic Surveillance System — Westchester County, New York
• Public Health Practice
  • Public Health Information Network — Improving Early Detection by Using a Standards-Based Approach to Connecting Public Health and Clinical Medicine
  • Information System Architectures for Syndromic Surveillance
  • Perspective of an Emergency Physician Group as a Data Provider for Syndromic Surveillance
  • SARS Surveillance Project — Internet-Enabled Multiregion Surveillance for Rapidly Emerging Disease
  • Health Information Privacy and Syndromic Surveillance Systems
• Abstracts

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