From October 23 to 24th, 2003 over 460 public health practitioners, physicians and academicians from 47 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and 8 countries came to the New York Academy of Medicine to convene the 2003 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference. The conference updated participants on the state of the art in syndromic surveillance, reviewed the remarkable maturation of the field in the past year, and provided a forum for discussing the challenges faced by syndromic surveillance systems if they are to be incorporated into public health practice.

• Detailed Agenda (231K)
• Speaker Presentations
• Overview
• Session 1: Introduction, Overview and Context
• What is Syndromic Surveillance? (200K) - Kelly Henning, NYC DOHMH
• The Challenge (1.1MB) - Seth Foldy, The City of Milwaukee Health Department
• Evaluation Challenges (120K) - Dan Sosin, CDC
• Session 2: Findings from Model Systems
• Syndromic Surveillance in New York City (170K) - Rick Heffernan, NYC DOHMH
• The Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) System (890K) - Michael Wagner, University of Pittsburgh
• National Capital Region Collaborative Disease Surveillance Network Using ESSENSE (1.1MB) - Joseph Lombardo, Johns Hopkins University
• Session 3: National Resources Under Development
• The Biosense Initiative and National Resources (7.7MB) - John Loonsk, Centers for Disease Control
• The National Bioterrorism Syndromic Surveillance Demonstration Program (22MB) - Richard Platt, Harvard Medical School
• National Retail Data Monitoring System (600K) - Michael Wagner, University of Pittsburgh
• Session 4: Have Syndromic Surveillance Systems Been Useful?
• Investigation of Diarrheal Illness Detected through Syndromic Surveillance After a Massive Power Outage, New York City, August 2003 (400K) - Melissa Marx, NYC DOHMH
• A National Symptom Surveillance System in the UK Using Calls to a Telephone Health Advice Service (390K) - Duncan Cooper, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK
• Use of Pharmacy Data to Evaluate Impact of Smoking Regulations in Sales of Nicotine Replacement Therapies in New York City (390K) - Kristi Metzger, NYC DOHMH
• Conducting Population Behavioral Health Surveillance suing Automated Diagnostic and Pharmacy Data Systems (470K) - Julie Pavlin, WRAIR
• Session 9: Conclusions and Summaries
• Lessons Learned - Research Methods Section (1.75MB) - Farzad Mostashari, NYC DOHMH
• Closing Observations--Syndromic Surveillance: Lessons Learned and Unanswered Questions (270K) - James W. Buehler, Emory University
• Research Methods
• Session 5.A: Aberration Detection: Temporal and Spatial-Temporal Methods
• Bayesian Approaches to Syndromic Surveillance (45K) - Andrew Lawson, University of South Carolina
• Syndromic Surveillance for Post-Vaccination Adverse Events Using SPRT: A Retrospective Analysis (130K) - Margarette Kolczak, CDC NIP
• The Role of Data Aggregation in Syndromic Surveillance with Applications in ESSENCE II (240K) - Howard Burkom, Johns Hopkins University
• Session 6.A: Adjustment for Natural Variation
• An algorithm for a statistical detection of peaks: The Syndromic Surveillance System for the Athens 2004 Olympics (1.5MB) - Urania Dafni, University of Athens
• WSARE v3.0: Accounting for a Changing Baseline (340K) - Weng-Keen Wong, Carnegie Mellon University
• Syndromic Surveillance without Denominator Data: The Space-Time Permutation Scan Statistic (350K) - Martin Kulldorff, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare
• Session 7.A: Syndrome Definitions/Syndrome Groupings
• A Comparison of Two Major Emergency Department Free-Text Chief Complaint Coding Systems (370K) - Christina Mikocz, Rush University Med. Ctr.
• Syndrome Definitions for Disease Associated with Critical Agents (800K) - Virginia Foster, WRAIR
• Normalization of Free Text for Syndromic Surveillance (400K) - Alan Shapiro, NYU School of Medicine
• Session 8.A: Outbreak Simulations for Performance Testing
• Statistical Measures for Evaluation of Methods for Syndromic Surveillance (218K) - Marianne Frisén, University of Gothenburg
• Syndromic Surveillance In Vitro: Outbreak Detection Performance using Limited Feature Set Simulation (1.2MB) - Kenneth Mandl, Harvard Medical School
• Evaluating Biosurveillance Prototypes (1.5MB) - David Siegrist, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
• Public Health Practice
• Session 5.B: Local & State Health Departments: Experiences and Challenges
• Fishing for Sharks in a Rowboat: Developing, Using and Maintaining a Sophisticated Surveillance System in Bergen County, NJ (70K) - Marc Palladini, Bergen County, NJ DOH
• 2003 Update for Connecticut Hospital Admissions Syndromic Surveillance (HASS) (540K) - Zygmunt Dembek, Connecticut DOH
• Syndromic Surveillance for Bioterrorism in Santa Clara County, CA: October 1,2001 to September 30, 2003 (130K) - Mujib Rahman, County of Santa Clara, CA DOH
• Session 6.B: Managing Relationships with Data Providers
• Managed Care Organizations as Data Providers for National Syndromic Surveillance Systems: Motivation and Concerns (20K) - Andrew Nelson, Health Partners, Research Foundation
• Data Provider Relationships: Pros, Cons and Considerations (310K) - Andrew Kress, Surveillance Data, Inc.
• Emergency Department Data Providers (1.7MB) - Dennis Cochrane, Emergency Medical Assoc.-NJ
• Session 7.B: Legal Perspectives/HIPPA
• Experience of Syndromic Surveillance Systems with issues of Patient Privacy and HIPAA (30K) - James Gibson, South Carolina DOH
• Legal Perspectives of Implementing Syndromic Surveillance Systems – Utah Case Study (80K) - Per Gesteland, Intermountain Health Care, University of Utah
• Session 8.B: Investigation of Signals
• Field Investigations of Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance Signals, New York City (660K) - Linda Steiner-Sichel, NYC DOHMH
• Should We Be Worried? Investigation of Signals Generated by an Electronic Syndromic Surveillance System (90K) - William Terry, Westchester County, NY DOH
• B-Safer Medical Surveillance Program (250K) - Edith Umland, New Mexico Health Sciences
• Poster Presentations
• Data Providers
• Evaluation of school absenteeism data for early outbreak detection, New York City (380K) – Besculides M et al.
• EpiSPIRE: A System for Environmental and Public Health Monitoring – Chung-Sheng Li et al.
• Expansion of ESSENCE for Use in Joint Military and Civilian Surveillance in Nine Cities – Nicola Marsden-Haug et al.
• Enhancing Community Linkages for Disease Surveillance – Michael Mastrangelo et al.
• Improving Agreement between Two Existing Methods for Biosurveillance of Respiratory Disease in the Emergency Department: Chief Complaint and ICD9 Diagnosis Code (149K) - Melissa Mocny et al.
• A Comparison of Two Existing Methods for Biosurveillance of Respiratory Disease in the Emergency Department: Chief Complaint versus ICD9 Diagnosis Code (99K) - Dennis Cochrane et al.
• Practical Evaluation of Electronic Disease Surveillance Systems for Local Public Health (290K) - M. Ottaway et al.
• Local Health Department Role and Experience in Collaborating with the National Bioterrorism Syndromic Surveillance Demonstration Program – Ed Sherwood et al.
• Analytic Methods
• A monitoring system for detecting starts and declines of influenza epidemics (30K) – Eva Andersson
• A Bivariate Statistic for Temporal-Spatial Syndromic Surveillance (401K) – Marco Bonetti et al.
• An epidemic simulation model for evaluation of syndromic surveillance systems: model design and initial validation – DL Buckeridge et al.
• Bioterrorism Syndromic Cluster Creation Tool: A system to generate sets of artificial patient cluster coordinates (210K) – Christopher A. Cassa et al.
• Preliminary results on the evaluation and validity of chief complaint and discharge diagnoses in a syndromic surveillance system – Aaron T Fleischauer et al.
• A New Twist on Old Methods. Simple Schemes for Disease and Non-Battle Injury Surveillance in the Field – J. Kevin Grayson et al.
• BACTrack: A Novel Surveillance Technique (2.5M) - Ronald Hoffeld et al.
• A Fast Grid-Based Scan Statistic for Detection of Significant Spatial Disease Clusters (110K) - Daniel B. Neill et al.
• Syndromic Surveillance: A Population Adjusted, Stable Geospatial Baseline for Outbreak Detection - Karen L. Olson et al.
• An empirical evaluation of space-time models for surveillance of disease maps (380K) - Carmen L. Vidal Rodeiro et al.
• Outbreak Detection by Signal Integration - Paola Sebastiani et al.
• Effects of Sensitivity and Specificity on the Signal to Noise Ratios for the Detection of Influenza-Associated Aberrations - William Thompson et al.
• Statistics for Temporal Surveillance of Bioterrorism - Sylvan Wallenstein
• Syndromic Surveillance: An Analysis of the Variation in Patient Populations at Seven Hospital Emergency Departments in Southeastern Virginia (140K) - Christine M. Yuan et al.
• Evaluating Disease Outbreak Detection Methods: Benchmark Data and Power Calculations (744K) - Zhenkui Zhang et al.
• Syndromic Surveillance Around the World
• Use of Web-based Newspaper Death Notices for Improved Timeliness of Mortality Surveillance Marshall Boak
• Establishing An Automated Surveillance System Community Health Electronic Surveillance System (695K) - Stanley Cho et al.
• Monitoring Over-the-Counter Pharmacy Sales for Early Outbreak Detection in New York City - Das D et al.
• Mortality Surveillance in New Hampshire (40K) - Kim Fallon et al.
• Correlation of West Nile Virus Infection with Emergency Department Chief Complaints using a Passive Syndromic Surveillance Model - John J. Flaherty et al.
• SARS Surveillance Project: Agile Multi-region Surveillance for Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome (340K) - Seth L. Foldy et al.
• Using Kaiser Permanente Nurse Hotline Data for Syndromic Surveillance in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area (5.3MB) - Jade Vu Henry et al.
• From Data Sources to Event Detection – Summary of the Southern California Regional Surveillance Summit (56K) - Jeffrey Johnson et al.
• Monitoring population health using routinely recorded family practice clinical data. Evaluation of a sentinel surveillance system in Auckland New Zealand (320K) - Nicholas Jones
• Untitled - Dr Jim McMenamin et al.
• Syndromic Surveillance Using Chief Complaints from Urgent Care Facilities during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games (250K) and Handout (80K) - Michael B. Mundorff
• Automated Surveillance for Pneumonia in the SARS Era: a Pilot Study - David K. Shay et al.
• Evaluation of the Syndromic Surveillance System at Hospitals after the Epidemic of SARS in Taiwan - Frank Fuh-Yuan Shih et al.
• Empirical Evidence of Cross Relations among Aggregate Indicators of Care-Seeking Behavior - Douglas Stetson et al.
• The Toxic Exposure Surveillance System (TESS) – The American Association of Poison Control Center (AAPCC) Database of Toxic Events in the United States (118K) - Watson WA et al.
• Other Topics
• Syndromic Surveillance of Infectious Diseases in Taiwan: Before and After the Challenges of SARS (1.52MB) - King Chwan-Chuen et al.
• Removing a Barrier to Syndromic Surveillance: Open Sourcing the RODS System (240K) - Jeremy Espino et al.
• Toxicosurveillance: Utilization of the Toxic Exposure Surveillance System for Detection of Potential Chemical Terrorism Events (610K) – Funk AB et al.
• Syndromic Tracking and Reporting Systems (STAR) (1.9MB) and Handout (100K) - Kintz et al.
• New Statistical Methodologies for Syndromic Surveillance (260K) – Andrew Lawson et al.
• From Implementation to Automation: A Step-by-Step Approach to Syndromic Surveillance Systems from a Public Health Perspective (140K) - Brian M. Lawson et al.
• A Knowledge Driven Approach to Public Health Situation Awareness - Parsa Mirhaji et al.
• GeoSurveillance: Monitoring changes in spatial patterns (910K) - Ikuho Yamada et al.
• Empirical Evidence of Cross Relations among Aggregate Indicators of Care-Seeking Behavior - Douglas Stetson et al.
• Evaluation Framework
• Evaluation Cover Page (108K)
• Framework for Evaluating Public Health Surveillance Systems For Early Detection of Outbreaks (475K)
• Proceedings
• The conference proceedings were published in a special Supplement to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - September 2004 called Syndromic Surveillance: Reports from a National Conference, 2003 (4971K). Individual PDFs from this issue are available bellow.
• Preface - The Editorial Committee
• Articles
• Overview of Syndromic Surveillance
• What is Syndromic Surveillance - Kelly J. Henning
• Linking Better Surveillance to Better Outcomes - Seth L. Foldy
• Review of the 2003 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference — Lessons Learned and Questions To Be Answered - James W. Buehler
• New York City Syndromic Surveillance Systems - Richard Heffernan, F. Mostashari, D. Das, M. Besculides, C. Rodriguez, J. Greenko, L. Steiner-Sichel, S. Balter, A. Karpati, P. Thomas, M. Phillips, J. Ackelsberg, E. Lee, J. Leng, J. Hartman, K. Metzger, R. Rosselli, D. Weiss
• Syndrome and Outbreak Detection Using Chief-Complaint Data — Experience of the Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance Project - Michael M. Wagner, J. Espino, F-C. Tsui, P. Gesteland, W. Chapman, O. Ivanov, A. Moore, W. Wong, J. Dowling, J. Hutman
• Removing a Barrier to Computer-Based Outbreak and Disease Surveillance — The RODS Open Source Project - Jeremy U. Espino, M. Wagner, C. Szczepaniak, F-C. Tsui, H. Su, R. Olszewski, Z. Liu, W. Chapman, X. Zeng, L. Ma, Z. Lu, J. Dara
• National Retail Data Monitor for Public Health Surveillance - Michael M. Wagner, F-C. Tsui, J. Espino, W. Hogan, J. Hutman, J. Hersh, D. Neill, A. Moore, G. Parks, C. Lewis, R. Aller
• National Bioterrorism Syndromic Surveillance Demonstration Program - W. Katherine Yih, B. Caldwell, R. Harmon, K. Kleinman, R. Lazarus, A. Nelson, J. Nordin, B. Rehm, B. Richter, D. Ritzwoller, E. Sherwood, R. Platt
• Daily Emergency Department Surveillance System — Bergen County, New Jersey - Marc Paladini
• Hospital Admissions Syndromic Surveillance — Connecticut, September 2001–November 2003 - Zygmunt F. Dembek, K. Carley, A. Siniscalchi, J. Hadler
• BioSense — A National Initiative for Early Detection and Quantification of Public Health Emergencies - John W. Loonsk
• Syndromic Surveillance at Hospital Emergency Departments — Southeastern Virginia - Christine M. Yuan, S. Love, M. Wilson
• Research Methods
• Bivariate Method for Spatio-Temporal Syndromic Surveillance - Al Ozonoff, L. Forsberg, M. Bonetti, M. Pagano
• Role of Data Aggregation in Biosurveillance Detection Strategies with Applications from ESSENCE - Howard S. Burkom, Y. Elbert, A. Feldman, J. Lin
• Scan Statistics for Temporal Surveillance for Biologic Terrorism - Sylvan Wallenstein, J. Naus
• Approaches to Syndromic Surveillance When Data Consist of Small Regional Counts - Peter A. Rogerson, I. Yamada
• Algorithm for Statistical Detection of Peaks — Syndromic Surveillance System for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games - Urania G. Dafni, S. Tsiodras, D. Panagiotakos, K. Gkolfinopoulou, G. Kouvatseas, Z. Tsourti, G. Saroglou
• Taming Variability in Free Text: Application to Health Surveillance - Alan R. Shapiro
• Comparison of Two Major Emergency Department-Based Free-Text Chief-Complaint Coding Systems - Christina A. Mikosz, J. Silva, S. Black, G. Gibbs, I. Cardenas
• How Many Illnesses Does One Emergency Department Visit Represent? Using a Population-Based Telephone Survey To Estimate the Syndromic Multiplier - Kristina B. Metzger, A. Hajat, M. Crawford, F. Mostashari
• Comparison of Office Visit and Nurse Advice Hotline Data for Syndromic Surveillance — Baltimore-Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area, 2002 - Jade Vu Henry, S. Magruder, M. Snyder
• Progress in Understanding and Using Over-the-Counter Pharmaceuticals for Syndromic Surveillance - Steven F. Magruder, S. Happel Lewis, A. Najmi, E. Florio
• Evaluation
• Evaluation Challenges for Syndromic Surveillance — Making Incremental Progress - Daniel M. Sosin, J. DeThomasis
• Measuring Outbreak-Detection Performance By Using Controlled Feature Set Simulations - Kenneth D. Mandl, B. Reis, C. Cassa
• Evaluation of Syndromic Surveillance Systems — Design of an Epidemic Simulation Model - David L. Buckeridge, H. Burkom, A. Moore, J. Pavlin, P. Cutchis, W. Hogan
• Benchmark Data and Power Calculations for Evaluating Disease Outbreak Detection Methods - Martin Kulldorff, Z. Zhang, J. Hartman, R. Heffernan, L. Huang, F. Mostashari
• Bio-ALIRT Biosurveillance Detection Algorithm Evaluation - David Siegrist, J. Pavlin
• ESSENCE II and the Framework for Evaluating Syndromic Surveillance Systems - Joseph S. Lombardo, H. Burkom, J. Pavlin
• Conducting Population Behavioral Health Surveillance by Using Automated Diagnostic and Pharmacy Data Systems - Julie A. Pavlin, P. Murdock, E. Elbert, C. Milliken, S. Hakre, J. Mansfield, C. Hoge
• Evaluation of an Electronic General-Practitioner–Based Syndromic Surveillance System — Auckland, New Zealand, 2000–2001 - Nicholas F. Jones, R. Marshall
• National Symptom Surveillance Using Calls to a Telephone Health Advice Service — United Kingdom, December 2001–February 2003 - Duncan L. Cooper, G. Smith, M. Baker, F. Chinemana, N. Verlander, E. Gerard, V. Hollyoak, R. Griffiths
• Field Investigations of Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance Signals — New York City - Linda Steiner-Sichel, J. Greenko, R. Heffernan, M. Layton, D. Weiss
• Should We Be Worried? Investigation of Signals Generated by an Electronic Syndromic Surveillance System — Westchester County, New York - William Terry, B. Ostrowsky, A. Huang
• Public Health Practice
• Public Health Information Network — Improving Early Detection by Using a Standards-Based Approach to Connecting Public Health and Clinical Medicine - Claire V. Broome, J. Loonsk
• Information System Architectures for Syndromic Surveillance - William B. Lober, L. Trigg, B. Karras
• Perspective of an Emergency Physician Group as a Data Provider for Syndromic Surveillance - Dennis G. Cochrane
• SARS Surveillance Project — Internet-Enabled Multiregion Surveillance for Rapidly Emerging Disease - Seth L. Foldy, E. Barthell, J. Silva, P. Biedrzycki, D. Howe, M. Erme, B. Keaton, C. Hamilton, L. Brewer, G. Miller, E. Eby, R. Coles, K. Pemble, C. Felton
• Health Information Privacy and Syndromic Surveillance Systems - Daniel Drociuk, J. Gibson, J. Hodge, Jr.
• Abstracts
• Monitoring System for Detecting Starts and Declines of Influenza Epidemics - Eva Andersson
• Evaluation of School Absenteeism Data for Early Outbreak Detection — New York City, 2001–2002 - Melanie Besculides, R. Heffernan, F. Mostashari, D. Weiss
• System To Generate Semisynthetic Data Sets of Outbreak Clusters for Evaluation of Outbreak-Detection Performance - Christopher A. Cassa, K. Olson, K. Mandl1
• Establishing an Automated Surveillance System - Stanley S. Cho, S. Hackmyer, J. Li, J. Lipsman, O. Meruelo, D. Mottola, K. Mulvey, M. Pereira, R. Recchia1
• Change-Point Detection Using Directional Derivatives - Allan B. Clark, A. Lawson
• Physician’s Choice of Charting Template Versus ICD-9 Code — Agreement Between Two Syndromic Surveillance Methods Using Emergency Department Electronic Medical Records - Dennis G. Cochrane, J. Allegra, J. Rothman
• Monitoring Over-the-Counter Pharmacy Sales for Early Outbreak Detection — New York City, August 2001–September 2003 - Debjani Das, F. Mostashari, D. Weiss, S. Balter, R. Heffernan
• Death Certificate Surveillance — New Hampshire - Kim K. Fallon, D. Boone
• Correlation of West Nile Virus Infection with Emergency Department Chief Complaints by Using a Passive Syndromic Surveillance Model - John Flaherty, M. Gillam
• Evaluation and Validity of Chief Complaints and Discharge Diagnoses in a Drop-In Syndromic Surveillance System - Aaron T. Fleischauer, B. Silk, M. Schumacher, K. Komatsu, S. Santana, V. Vaz, M. Wolfe, L. Hutwagner, J. Cono, R. Berkelman, T. Treadwell
• Using the Toxic Exposure Surveillance System To Detect Potential Chemical Terrorism Events - Amy B. Funk, J. Schier, M. Belson, M. Patel, C. Rubin, W. Watson, T. Litovitz, E. Kilbourne
• Making Syndromes Reportable Diseases — Authorizing, Mandating, or Both? A Perspective on the Legal Basis for Syndromic Surveillance - Per H. Gesteland, R. Rolfs
• New Twist on Old Methods — Simple Schemas for Disease and Nonbattle Injury Surveillance in Deployment Settings - J. Kevin Grayson, P. Gould
• Dual-Model Approach to Syndromic Surveillance Using Hospital Emergency Department Data - Karen Green, B. Miller, M. Hadidi, M. Zimmerman, R. Danila
• Technique for Rapid Detection and Localization of Attacks with Biologic Agents - Ronald Hoffeld, L. Candell
• From Data Sources to Event Detection — Summary of the Southern California Regional Surveillance Summit - Jeffrey M. Johnson, L. Gresham, D. Browner, C. McClean, M. Ginsberg, S. Wood
• Syndromic Surveillance of Infectious Diseases in Taiwan — Before and After the Challenges of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - Chwan-Chuen King, F-Y. Shih, M-Y. Yen, F-C. Hu, J-S. Wu, F-K. Chang, L-W. Lin, J-Y. Yang, H-Y. Chen, T-S. Wu, D-J. Wang, K-T. Chen, H-T. Yu, C-A. Hsiung, S-W. Lu, C-M. Chang, S-T. Lin, C-J. Fu, C-M. Huang, M-S. Ho, H. Chang, J-H. Chou, S-J. Twu, I-J. Su, M. Marx, H. Sobel
• Syndromic Tracking and Reporting System — Overview and Example - Jylmarie Kintz, Eliot Gregos, David Atrubin, Jeff Sanchez
• Addressing the Concerns of Data Providers — Lessons from the Private Sector - Andrew Kress, G. Hess
• From Implementation to Automation — A Step-by-Step Approach to Developing Syndromic Surveillance Systems from a Public Health Perspective - Brian M. Lawson, E. Fitzhugh, S. Hall, L. Hutwagner, G. Seeman
• Site-Based Biosurveillance - Chung-Sheng Li, C. Aggarwal, M. Campbell, Y. Chang, M. Hill, V. Iyengar, M. Naphade, J. Smith, M. Wang, K. Wu, P. Yu, A. Kress
• Expansion of ESSENCE for Use in Joint Military and Civilian Surveillance in Nine Cities - Nicola Marsden-Haug, J. Pavlin, V. Foster, S. Rechter, J. Lombardo, S. Lewis
• Investigation of Diarrheal Illness Detected Through Syndromic Surveillance After a Massive Blackout — New York City, August 2003 - Melissa A. Marx, C. Rodriguez, J. Greenko, D. Das, F. Mostashari, S. Balter, R. Heffernan, M. Layton, D. Weiss
• Semantic Approach to Public Health Situation Awareness — Design and Methodology - Parsa Mirhaji, S. Lillibridge, R. Richesson, J. Zhang, J. Smith
• Improving Agreement Between Two Algorithms for Biosurveillance of Respiratory Disease in the Emergency Department — Chief Complaint and ICD-9 Code - Melissa Mocny, D. Cochrane, J. Allegra, T. Nguyen, J. Pavlin, J. Rothman, R. Heffernan
• Syndromic Surveillance Using Chief Complaints from Urgent-Care Facilities During the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games - Michael B. Mundorff, P. Gesteland, M. Haddad, R. Rolfs
• Fast Grid-Based Scan Statistic for Detection of Significant Spatial Disease Clusters - Daniel B. Neill, A. Moore
• Population-Adjusted Stable Geospatial Baseline for Outbreak Detection in Syndromic Surveillance - Karen L. Olson, M. Bonetti, M. Pagano, K. Mandl
• Improving Outbreak Detection by Signal Integration - Paola Sebastiani, L. Wang, K.D. Mandl, M. Ramoni
• Evaluation of Taiwan’s Syndromic Surveillance System after the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome — Taiwan, 2003 - Frank Fuh-Yuan Shih, M-Y. Yen, F-K. Chang, L-W. Lin, J-S. Wu, C-A. Hsiung, M-S. Ho, I. Su, M. Marx, H. Sobel, C-C. King
• Temporal Correlation of Nontraditional and Traditional Evidence of a Natural Outbreak - Douglas Stetson, R. Bloom, D. Crary, K. Cheng, G. McClellan
• Effects of Sensitivity and Specificity on Signal-to-Noise Ratios for Detection of Influenza-Associated Aberrations - William W. Thompson
• Empirical Evaluation of Space-Time Models for Surveillance of Disease Maps - Carmen L. Vidal Rodeiro, A. Lawson
• Toxic Exposure Surveillance System - William A.Watson, T. Litovitz, C. Rubin, E. Kilbourne, M. Belson, M. Patel, J. Schier, A. Funk
• What’s Strange About Recent Events, Version 3.0 Accounting for a Changing Baseline - Weng-Keen Wong, A. Moore, G. Cooper, M. Wagner
• Practical Evaluation of Electronic Disease SurveillanceSystems for Local Public Health - Cynthia B. Yund, M. Ottaway, D. Brannen
• Speakers and Committee Member Informationon
• Speaker Biographies (156K)
• Committee Members (62K)