1. Syndromic surveillance: A local perspective

   • Farzad Mostashari
   • Jessica Hartman

   Editorial Pages: i1 - i7

2. Draft framework for evaluating syndromic surveillance systems

   • Daniel M. Sosin

   OriginalPaper Pages: i8 - i13

3. Statutory basis for public health reporting beyond specific diseases

   • Claire V. Broome
   • Heather H. Horton
   • Denise Koo

   OriginalPaper Pages: i14 - i22

4. New York City and state legal authorities related to syndromic surveillance

   • Wilfredo Lopez

   OriginalPaper Pages: i23 - i24

5. Syndromic surveillance using minimum transfer of identifiable data: The example of the national bioterrorism syndromic surveillance demonstration program

   • Richard Platt
   • Carmella Bocchino
   • Debra P. Ritzwoller

   OriginalPaper Pages: i25 - i31

6. A systems overview of the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE II)

   • Joseph Lombardo
   • Howard Burkom
   • Julie Pavlin

   OriginalPaper Pages: i32 - i42

7. Use of ambulance dispatch data as an early warning system for communitywide influenzalike illness, New York City

   • Farzad Mostashari
   • Annie Fine
   • Marcelle Layton

   OriginalPaper Pages: i43 - i49

8. Clinical evaluation of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) ambulance dispatch-based syndromic surveillance system, New York City

   • Jane Greenko
   • Farzad Mostashari
   • Marci Layton

   OriginalPaper Pages: i50 - i56

9. Biosurveillance applying scan statistics with multiple, disparate data sources

   • Howard S. Burkom

   OriginalPaper Pages: i57 - i65

10. Wsare: What’s strange about recent events?

    • Weng-Keen Wong
    • Andrew Moore
    • Michael Wagner

    OriginalPaper Pages: i66 - i75

11. Enhanced drop-in syndromic surveillance in New York City following September 11, 2001

    • Debjani Das
    • Don Weiss
    • Sharon Balter

    OriginalPaper Pages: i76 - i88

12. The bioterrorism preparedness and response Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS)

    • Lori Hutwagner
    • William Thompson
    • Tracee Treadwell

    OriginalPaper Pages: i89 - i96

13. Syndromic surveillance using automated collection of computerized discharge diagnoses

    • William B. Lober
    • Lisa J. Trigg
    • Jeffrey S. Duchin

    OriginalPaper Pages: i97 - i106

14. Investigation of disease outbreaks detected by “syndromic” surveillance systems

    • Julie A. Pavlin

    OriginalPaper Pages: i107 - i114

15. Epidemiological response to syndromic surveillance signals

    • Jeffrey S. Duchin

    BriefCommunication Pages: i115 - i116

16. Syndromic surveillance for bioterrorism: A system for rapid detection of influenzalike illness and bioterrorism-related outbreaks

    • B. Miller
    • H. Kassenborg
    • R. Danila

    Abstracts Section I: Syndromic Surveillance Using Emergency Department Data Pages: i117 - i117

17. Use of an electronic emergency department information system as a data source for respiratory syndrome surveillance

    • John M. Townes
    • Melvin A. Kohn
    • Jonathan Jui

    Abstracts Section I: Syndromic Surveillance Using Emergency Department Data Pages: i117 - i118

18. Partial evaluation of a drop-in bioterrorism surveillance system in phoenix, Arizona

    • Mare Schumacher
    • Liva Nohre
    • Sarah Santana

    Abstracts Section I: Syndromic Surveillance Using Emergency Department Data Pages: i118 - i118

19. New Hampshire emergency department syndromic surveillance system

    • Stephanie Miller
    • Kim Fallon
    • Ludmila Anderson

    Abstracts Section I: Syndromic Surveillance Using Emergency Department Data Pages: i118 - i118

20. Identification and investigation of disease outbreaks by ESSENCE

    • Kendall Brown
    • Julie Pavlin
    • Patrick Kelley

    Abstracts Section I: Syndromic Surveillance Using Emergency Department Data Pages: i119 - i119

21. The biosurveillance analysis, feedback, evaluation, and response (B-SAFER) system

    • J. C. Brillman
    • E. L. Joyce
    • B. Albanese

    Abstracts Section I: Syndromic Surveillance Using Emergency Department Data Pages: i119 - i120

22. Syndromic surveillance from free-text triage chief complaints

    • Wendy W. Chapman
    • Michael M. Wagner
    • John N. Dowling

    Abstracts Section I: Syndromic Surveillance Using Emergency Department Data Pages: i120 - i120

23. Real-time biosurveillance using an existing emergency department electronic medical record database

    • Dennis Cochrane
    • John Allegra
    • Jonathan Rothman

    Abstracts Section I: Syndromic Surveillance Using Emergency Department Data Pages: i120 - i121

24. The use of hospital emergency department chief complaint data as a "Near" real-time marker for assessing public health risk of infectious disease outbreak

    • Ronald J. Shannon
    • Michael Davisson
    • Kevin Jones

    Abstracts Section I: Syndromic Surveillance Using Emergency Department Data Pages: i121 - i121

25. Connecticut hospital admissions syndromic surveillance

    • Zygmunt Dembek
    • Myrth Myers
    • James Hadler

    Abstracts Section I: Syndromic Surveillance Using Emergency Department Data Pages: i121 - i122

26. A comparison of syndromic incidence data collected by triage nurses in Sata Clara county with regional infectious disease data

    • D. M. Bravata
    • M. M. Rahman
    • S. H. Cody

    Abstracts Section I: Syndromic Surveillance Using Emergency Department Data Pages: i122 - i122

27. Using existing electronic hospital data for syndromic surveillance

    • Dan Peterson
    • Eli Perencevich
    • Steven Davis

    Abstracts Section I: Syndromic Surveillance Using Emergency Department Data Pages: i122 - i123

28. Web-based Japanese syndromic surveillance for FIFA World Cup 2002

    • S. Suzuki
    • T. Ohyama
    • H. Nakatani

    Abstracts Section II: Event-Based Syndromic Surveillance Systems Pages: i123 - i123

29. A day at the races: Communitywide syndromic surveillance during the 2002 Kentucky Deby Festival

    • L. Goss
    • R. Carrico
    • K. Humbaugh

    Abstracts Section II: Event-Based Syndromic Surveillance Systems Pages: i124 - i124

30. Syndromic surveillance based on the emergency department in Korea

    • J. P. Cho
    • J. S. Kim
    • E. K. Jeong

    Abstracts Section II: Event-Based Syndromic Surveillance Systems Pages: i124 - i125

31. Planning syndromic surveillance for the Athens 2004 Olympic games: A pilot study

    • Urania Dafni
    • Kassiani Golfinopoulou
    • George Saroglou

    Abstracts Section II: Event-Based Syndromic Surveillance Systems Pages: i125 - i125

32. Syndromic surveillance: An applied tool for monitoring health effects of Colorado Wildfires, Summer 2002

    • A. J. Davidson
    • M. W. McClung
    • S. V. Cantrill

    Abstracts Section II: Event-Based Syndromic Surveillance Systems Pages: i125 - i126

33. Milwaukee biosurveillance project: Real-time syndromic surveillance using secure regional internet

    • Seth Foldy
    • Paul Biedrzycki
    • Milwaukee Biosurveillance Workgroup

    Abstracts Section II: Event-Based Syndromic Surveillance Systems Pages: i126 - i126

34. The frontlines of medicine project: A proposal for the standardized communication of emergency department data for public health uses including syndromic surveillance for biological and chemical terrorism

    • Edward N. Barthell
    • William H. Cordell
    • Brian K. Keaton

    Abstracts Section III: Data Transfer and Transformation Pages: i126 - i127

35. Foodborne outbreak early detection system (FOEDS)

    • Paul C. Bartlett
    • Holly Wethington
    • Mary Grace Stobierski

    Abstracts Section III: Data Transfer and Transformation Pages: i127 - i127

36. Conceptual models: Definitions, construction, and applications in public health surveillance

    • Rachel Richesson
    • James P. Turley

    Abstracts Section III: Data Transfer and Transformation Pages: i128 - i128

37. Tools to facilitate the interchange and analysis of nontraditional health surveillance data

    • Zachary Pincus
    • David L. Buckeridge
    • Mark Musen

    Abstracts Section III: Data Transfer and Transformation Pages: i128 - i129

38. A knowledge-based approach to defining syndromes

    • Justin V. Graham
    • David L. Buckeridge
    • Mark A. Musen

    Abstracts Section III: Data Transfer and Transformation Pages: i129 - i129

39. A knowledge-based method for surveillance

    • David L. Buckeridge
    • Martin O’Connor
    • Mark Musen

    Abstracts Section III: Data Transfer and Transformation Pages: i129 - i130

40. A cumulative sum approach to syndromic surveillance in geographic regions

    • Peter A. Rogerson

    Abstracts Section IV: Statistical Methodologies Pages: i130 - i130

41. An elliptic spatial scan statistic and its application to breast cancer mortality data in Northeastern United States

    • Martin Kulldorff
    • Lan Huang
    • Linda Pickle

    Abstracts Section IV: Statistical Methodologies Pages: i130 - i131

42. Geographic and network surveillance for arbitarily shaped hotspots—Next generation of potential outbreak detection and prioritization system

    • G. P. Patil
    • W. L. Myers
    • D. Wardrop

    Abstracts Section IV: Statistical Methodologies Pages: i131 - i131

43. Biosurveillance applying scan statistics with multiple, disparate data sources

    • Howard S. Burkom
    • Eugene Elbert

    Abstracts Section IV: Statistical Methodologies Pages: i131 - i132

44. Space-time disease map surveillance with extensions to bioterrorism

    • Andrew B. Lawson

    Abstracts Section IV: Statistical Methodologies Pages: i132 - i132

45. Syndromic surveillance and risk management using multiitem gamma poisson shrinker

    • Ana Szarfman

    Abstracts Section IV: Statistical Methodologies Pages: i133 - i133

46. A comparison of military surveillance systems for early detection of naturally occurring and bioterrorism-based epidemics of febrile respiratory illness

    • Nicola Marsden-Haug
    • Eugene Elbert
    • Julie Pavlin

    Abstracts Section IV: Statistical Methodologies Pages: i133 - i134

47. Surveillance Systems for Bioterrorism Detection: A systematic Review

    • D. M. Bravata
    • K. McDonald
    • D. K. Owens

    Poster Abstracts Section V: General Poster Presentations Pages: i135 - i135

48. What’s wrong with evaluating syndromic surveillance?

    • Steve MacDonald

    Poster Abstracts Section V: General Poster Presentations Pages: i135 - i136

49. Use of simulated bioterrorist attacks to evaluate syndromic surveillance systems based on multiple data sources

    • Manfred S. Green
    • Dani Cohen
    • Annette Sobel

    Poster Abstracts Section V: General Poster Presentations Pages: i136 - i136

50. Implementing the centers for disease control and prevention’s Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS): A frontline perspective from the knox county, Tennessee, health department

    • Brian Lawson
    • Gene Fitzhugh
    • G. Matthew Seeman

    Poster Abstracts Section V: General Poster Presentations Pages: i136 - i137