Articles for May Literature Review

This month, the Research Committee will be hosting its Literature Review on Wednesday, May 27th at 10:00 am EDT.

The articles for our literature discussion are listed below, and have also been posted to the ISDSResearch Gmail account.

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.

For a copy of the summary template or to access the ISDSResearch gmail account, please email rviola@syndromic.org. Please email your input on any selected articles by Tuesday, May 26th.

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van-Dijk A, Aramini J, Edge G, Moore KM.
Real-time surveillance for respiratory disease outbreaks, Ontario, Canada.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 May;15(5):799-801.

Hafen RP, Anderson DE, Cleveland WS, Maciejewski R, Ebert DS, Abusalah A, Yakout M, Ouzzani M, Grannis SJ.
Syndromic surveillance: STL for modeling, visualizing, and monitoring disease counts.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2009 Apr 21;9(1):21. [Epub ahead of print]

Yih WK, Teates KS, Abrams A, Kleinman K, Kulldorff M, Pinner R, Harmon R, Wang S, Platt R.
Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness.
PLoS ONE. 2009;4(4):e5260.

Li Y, Yu JF, Yin L, Cui GZ.
[Concepts of ontology-based neuroinformatics and their relations.]
Beijing Da Xue Xue Bao. 2009 Apr 18;41(2):230-4. Chinese.

Reina J, Nicolau A, Galmes A, Arbona B.
[Diagnostic yield of paediatric respiratory samples in the Balearic Islands Sentinel Influenza Surveillance Network.] An Pediatr (Barc). 2009 Apr 16;. Spanish.

Muscatello DJ, Morton PM, Evans I, Gilmour R.
Prospective surveillance of excess mortality due to influenza in New South Wales: feasibility and statistical approach.
Commun Dis Intell. 2008 Dec;32(4):435-42.

Neill DB.
An empirical comparison of spatial scan statistics for outbreak detection.
Int J Health Geogr. 2009 Apr 16;8(1):20. [Epub ahead of print]

Pattie DC, Atherton MJ, Cox KL.
Electronic Influenza Monitoring: Evaluation of Body Temperature to Classify Influenza-like Illness in a Syndromic Surveillance System. Qual Manag Health Care. 2009 Apr-Jun;18(2):91-102.

Ndifon W, Dushoff J, Levin SA.
On the use of hemagglutination-inhibition for influenza surveillance: Surveillance data are predictive of influenza vaccine effectiveness. Vaccine. 2009 Apr 21;27(18):2447-52.

Fisman DN, Greer AL, Brouhanski G, Drews SJ.
Of gastro and the gold standard: evaluation and policy implications of norovirus test performance for outbreak detection. J Transl Med. 2009 Mar 26;7:23.

de Mello WA, de Paiva TM, Ishida MA, Benega MA, Dos Santos MC, Viboud C, Miller MA, Alonso WJ.
The dilemma of influenza vaccine recommendations when applied to the tropics: the Brazilian case examined under alternative scenarios.
PLoS ONE. 2009;4(4):e5095.

Ansaldi F, Orsi A, Altomonte F, Bertone G, Parodi V, Carloni R, Moscatelli P, Pasero E, Oreste P, Icardi G.
Emergency department syndromic surveillance system for early detection of 5 syndromes: a pilot project in a reference teaching hospital in Genoa, Italy.
J Prev Med Hyg. 2008 Dec;49(4):131-5.