Occupational disease surveillance with existing data sources.

Combining Data from Existing Company Data Sources: Architecture and Experiences

Combining and utilizing data from different sources is a common problem in many companies today. Useful data can be found in various applications, such as spreadsheets, project management software or version management systems, but it is often an arduous and manual task to combine the information and regularly utilize it in a larger context. In this paper we describe an open architecture for co...

Availability of pediatric emergency visit data from existing data sources.

OBJECTIVES To determine the availability and completeness of selected data elements from administrative and clinical sources for emergency department (ED) visits in a national pediatric research network. METHODS This was a retrospective study of 25 EDs in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Data were obtained from two sources at each ED: 1) extant electronic administrative ...

Towards automatic deployment of data platforms from existing data sources

Health surveillance for occupational respiratory disease.

BACKGROUND Occupational lung diseases remain common, and health surveillance is one approach used to assist identification of early cases. AIMS To identify areas of good practice within respiratory health surveillance and to formulate recommendations for practice. METHODS Published literature was searched since 1990 using a semi-systematic methodology. RESULTS A total of 561 documents wer...

Visualization of Disease Surveillance Data with Geostatistics

Kriging techniques are used to map national public health data routinely reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Although choropleth maps are commonly used to display geographic and temporal disease-related events for political (state and county) jurisdictions, kriged maps may offer opportunities to enhance visual communication of event patterns over time. As a geostat...