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Real-time outbreak and disease surveillance

Syndromic surveillance system for early epidemic detection.

It integrates real-time clinical data from emergency departments within a geographic region to provide an instantaneous picture of symptom patterns and enable early detection of epidemic events.

Quick Facts

Developer
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Type
Syndromic surveillance system
First monitoring tool
Moving average with a 120-day sliding phase-I-window
Second monitoring tool
Nonstandard combination of CUSUM and EWMA
Third monitoring tool
Recursive least squares algorithm with Shewhart I-chart (4 standard deviations threshold)
Fourth monitoring tool
Wavelet approach using Haar wavelets with Shewhart I-chart (4 standard deviations threshold)

Facts from the source article.

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