Articles for April Literature Review

The Research Committee will be holding its monthly Literature Review on Thursday, April 23rd 2009 at 10:00 am EDT. This month, Professor Marianne Frisén of the University of Gothenburg has been invited to present her recent article, "Robust outbreak surveillance of epidemics in Sweden."

The first 30 minutes of the call will be spent discussing the month's article summaries, and then Prof. Frisén will make her presentation followed by a discussion, starting promptly at 10:30 am EDT.

Below are recent selections from our PubCrawler search, which are collected by the Research Committee's gmail account. To download pdf versions of the articles, Committee members are invited to log in to the account. Please see the following contact information to get the gmail account details.

Please email your input on any selected articles by April 22, 2009 to rviola@syndromic.org.

As always, this call is optional for contributors but is an opportunity to help, express concerns, and make suggestions.

Please note any articles of high quality and broad appeal for inviting the authors for online presentation or for consideration for ISDS recognition in its annual awards.

To clarify the process for our growing list of participants, the submissions should be brief structured summaries rather than formal reviews. Submit a summary only if you feel that the article is worthy of posting.
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01Apr2009
Tokars JI, Burkom H, Xing J, English R, Bloom S, Cox K, Pavlin JA.
Enhancing Time-Series Detection Algorithms for Automated Biosurveillance.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Apr;15(4):533-539.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstract&db=PubMed&list_uids=19331728

Eysenbach G.
Infodemiology and infoveillance: framework for an emerging set of public health informatics methods to analyze search, communication and publication behavior on the Internet.
J Med Internet Res. 2009 Mar 27;11(1):e11
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstract&db=PubMed&list_uids=19329408

26Mar2009
Yli-Hietanen J, Niiranen S, Aswell M, Nathanson L.
Domain-specific analytical language modeling-The chief complaint as a case study.
Int J Med Inform. 2009 Mar 21;.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstract&db=PubMed&list_uids=19307149

12Mar2009
Huaman MA, Araujo-Castillo RV, Soto G, Neyra JM, Quispe JA, Fernandez MF, Mundaca CC, Blazes DL., Impact of two interventions on timeliness and data quality of an electronic disease surveillance system in a resource limited setting (Peru): a prospective evaluation.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2009 Mar 10;9(1):16.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstract&db=PubMed&list_uids=19272165

10Mar2009
Gault G, Larrieu S, Durand C, Josseran L, Jouves B, Filleul L.
Performance of a syndromic system for influenza based on the activity of general practitioners, France. J Public Health (Oxf). 2009 Mar 5;. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstract&db=PubMed&list_uids=19269992

Deepa TM, Venkata Rao E, Patil RR, Samuel R.
Operational feasibility of establishing community reporting systems.
Natl Med J India. 2008 Jul-Aug;21(4):166-70.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstract&db=PubMed&list_uids=19267036

06Mar2009
Hripcsak G, Soulakis ND, Li L, Morrison FP, Lai AM, Friedman C, Calman NS, Mostashari F., Syndromic Surveillance Using Ambulatory Electronic Health Records.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2009 Mar 4;. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstract&db=PubMed&list_uids=19261941