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Tracee Treadwell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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AMIA - Applied IT for the CDC’s Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program
2020Co-Authors: Lori Hutwagner, G. Matthew Seeman, Tracee Treadwell, Jennifer E. Mcgehee, David A BrayAbstract:Early identification of an outbreak is essential, as rapid public health response minimizes morbidity and mortality. The Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) is a software solution designed to aid in the early identification of Bioterrorism events and other disease outbreaks. EARS implements established aberration detection methodologies. In parallel and supporting the laboratory side of response, the LRN Geographic Information System (GIS) map server was created as a way of visually providing critical data through the CDC intranet on the nation’s laboratory readiness, displaying many data elements in a unified fashion.
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the Bioterrorism Preparedness and response early aberration reporting system ears
Journal of Urban Health-bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine, 2003Co-Authors: Lori Hutwagner, William W Thompson, Matthew G Seeman, Tracee TreadwellAbstract:Data from public health surveillance systems can provide meaningful measures of population risks for disease, disability, and death. Analysis and evaluation of these surveillance data help public health practitioners react to important health events in a timely manner both locally and nationally. Aberration detection methods allow the rapid assessment of changes in frequencies and rates of different health outcomes and the characterization of unusual trends or clusters.
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The Bioterrorism Preparedness and response Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS)
Journal of Urban Health, 2003Co-Authors: Lori Hutwagner, William Thompson, G. Matthew Seeman, Tracee TreadwellAbstract:Data from public health surveillance systems can provide meaningful measures of population risks for disease, disability, and death. Analysis and evaluation of these surveillance data help public health practitioners react to important health events in a timely manner both locally and nationally. Aberration detection methods allow the rapid assessment of changes in frequencies and rates of different health outcomes and the characterization of unusual trends or clusters. The Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allows the analysis of public health surveillance data using available aberration detection methods. The primary purpose of EARS is to provide national, state, and local health departments with several alternative, aberration detection methods. EARS helps assist local and state health officials to focus limited resources on appropriate activities during epidemiological investigations of important public health events. Finally, EARS allows end users to select validated aberration detection methods and modify sensitivity and specificity thresholds to values considered to be of public health importance by local and state health departments.
Lori Hutwagner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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AMIA - Applied IT for the CDC’s Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program
2020Co-Authors: Lori Hutwagner, G. Matthew Seeman, Tracee Treadwell, Jennifer E. Mcgehee, David A BrayAbstract:Early identification of an outbreak is essential, as rapid public health response minimizes morbidity and mortality. The Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) is a software solution designed to aid in the early identification of Bioterrorism events and other disease outbreaks. EARS implements established aberration detection methodologies. In parallel and supporting the laboratory side of response, the LRN Geographic Information System (GIS) map server was created as a way of visually providing critical data through the CDC intranet on the nation’s laboratory readiness, displaying many data elements in a unified fashion.
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the Bioterrorism Preparedness and response early aberration reporting system ears
Journal of Urban Health-bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine, 2003Co-Authors: Lori Hutwagner, William W Thompson, Matthew G Seeman, Tracee TreadwellAbstract:Data from public health surveillance systems can provide meaningful measures of population risks for disease, disability, and death. Analysis and evaluation of these surveillance data help public health practitioners react to important health events in a timely manner both locally and nationally. Aberration detection methods allow the rapid assessment of changes in frequencies and rates of different health outcomes and the characterization of unusual trends or clusters.
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The Bioterrorism Preparedness and response Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS)
Journal of Urban Health, 2003Co-Authors: Lori Hutwagner, William Thompson, G. Matthew Seeman, Tracee TreadwellAbstract:Data from public health surveillance systems can provide meaningful measures of population risks for disease, disability, and death. Analysis and evaluation of these surveillance data help public health practitioners react to important health events in a timely manner both locally and nationally. Aberration detection methods allow the rapid assessment of changes in frequencies and rates of different health outcomes and the characterization of unusual trends or clusters. The Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allows the analysis of public health surveillance data using available aberration detection methods. The primary purpose of EARS is to provide national, state, and local health departments with several alternative, aberration detection methods. EARS helps assist local and state health officials to focus limited resources on appropriate activities during epidemiological investigations of important public health events. Finally, EARS allows end users to select validated aberration detection methods and modify sensitivity and specificity thresholds to values considered to be of public health importance by local and state health departments.
Matthew K Wynia - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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physicians Preparedness for Bioterrorism and other public health priorities
Academic Emergency Medicine, 2006Co-Authors: Caleb G Alexander, Luke G Larkin, Matthew K WyniaAbstract:Objectives Potential Bioterrorism challenges policy makers to balance competing public health priorities. Earlier surveys showed low physician Bioterrorism Preparedness but did not assess physicians' general public health Preparedness, compare the Preparedness of emergency and primary care physicians, or assess temporal trends. Methods This was a national, cross-sectional, random-sample survey conducted in 2003. Results Overall, 744 of 1,200 eligible physicians responded (response rate, 62%). Of these, 58% of emergency physician respondents and 48% of primary care physician respondents reported having learned a lot about responding to bioterror since September 11, 2001 (p < 0.01). However, only 43% of emergency physicians and 21% of primary care physicians agreed they are generally “well prepared to play a role in responding to a bioterror attack” (p < 0.001). Beliefs about balancing public health priorities were similar among emergency and primary care respondents. Seventy-eight percent of respondents believed that local health care systems need to be prepared for Bioterrorism, and 92% believed that local health care systems need to be prepared for natural epidemics. By contrast, only 23% and 46% of respondents reported that their local health care systems are well prepared for Bioterrorism and natural epidemics, respectively. Meanwhile, 77% agreed that “influenza is a greater threat to public health than Bioterrorism,” and 21% reported that Bioterrorism Preparedness efforts are diverting resources from more important public health problems. Conclusions In 2003, most emergency and primary care physicians reported that they and their local health care systems were not yet well prepared to respond to a bioterror attack, and many believed that more resources should go toward preparing for natural epidemics. These findings highlight the importance of expanding Bioterrorism Preparedness efforts to improve the public health system more broadly.
Brooke N Shadel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Bioterrorism risk perceptions and educational needs of public health professionals before and after September 11, 2001: a national needs assessment survey.
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2004Co-Authors: Brooke N Shadel, Bruce W Clements, John J. Chen, Ryan W. Newkirk, Steven J. Lawrence, R. Gregory EvansAbstract:: The study objectives were to compare local public health professionals' Bioterrorism risk perceptions, the extent of Bioterrorism Preparedness training, and to describe preferred methods for delivery of Preparedness education in the United States. National needs assessments were conducted via a mailed survey to 3,074 local public health departments in October 2000 and November 2001. Compared to a survey conducted in October 2000, the perceived risk of a Bioterrorism attack in the United States increased dramatically after September 11 (p < 0.0001); however, 57% of respondents believed one was unlikely to occur within their own community. Public health professionals perceive their own communities to be at low risk for a Bioterrorism event. Ongoing, updated, standardized Bioterrorism Preparedness education is needed.
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Infection control practitioners' perceptions and educational needs regarding Bioterrorism: results from a national needs assessment survey.
American Journal of Infection Control, 2003Co-Authors: Brooke N Shadel, Terri Rebmann, John J. Chen, Benedict Clements, R. Gregory EvansAbstract:Abstract Background: The perceived threat that biological weapons will be used in an act of terror against the United States has escalated sharply since the discovery of anthrax-tainted letters after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. These events underscore the critical nature of health care and public health Preparedness and the need to augment infection control practitioner education and training. Methods: Between October 2000 and August 2001 a national needs assessment was conducted by use of a 35-question survey. The survey measured infection control practitioners' (ICPs') perception of the risk for Bioterrorism in the United States and in their community, the proportion of ICPs with prior training in Bioterrorism Preparedness, and preferences for delivery media of future Bioterrorism education. Results: The assessment of the perceived threat of Bioterrorism in the United States during the next 5 years ( P = .022) and in the ICPs' work community ( P Conclusions: The results of this study indicate an urgent need for more resources and opportunities for clinical education in Bioterrorism Preparedness that will provide continuing education credit. Successful Bioterrorism education will require a variety of instructional designs and media delivery methods to address ICPs' preferences and needs. (Am J Infect Control 2003;31:129-34.)
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what we need to know about Bioterrorism Preparedness results from focus groups conducted at apic 2000
American Journal of Infection Control, 2001Co-Authors: Brooke N Shadel, Terri Rebmann, Bruce W Clements, Brenda Arndt, Gregory R EvansAbstract:Infection control practitioners (ICPs) are important partners in enhancing the US public health infrastructure, both as essential recipients of continuing education and as instructors responsible for providing this education. Focus groups were conducted at APIC 2000, the annual meeting for the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc, to determine the ICPs' priorities for educational opportunities in Bioterrorism Preparedness and the preferred methods of education delivery. Focus group participants affirmed the need to provide education in sessions of less than 60 minutes, with use of a variety of technologies and methods of presentation such as video, Internet, and paper-based self-learning texts. The participants' comments suggested a lack of awareness by employees in health care institutions about the potential threat of Bioterrorism in the United States and a deficiency in knowledge about the potential consequences of an attack. The focus group participants believed this lack of awareness also leads to unwillingness by their administrators to allocate funds for planning and education. Since it appears that ICPs will be looking for direction and expertise from the local health departments in their communities, the first subset of professionals to target for Bioterrorism education and Preparedness should probably be the public health professionals.
Nancy Khardori - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Bioterrorism and Bioterrorism Preparedness historical perspective and overview
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2006Co-Authors: Nancy KhardoriAbstract:Bioterrorism has been defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as ‘‘the intentional release of bacteria, viruses or toxins for the purpose of harming or killing civilians’’ [1]. The intentional use of microbiologic agents dates back to the days before specific etiologies of infectious diseases were known. The epidemics and pandemics of natural infectious diseases caused by communicable agents have changed the course of human history frequently by claiming more lives and creating more social devastation than wars. With continued emergence and spread of previously unrecognized pathogens and reemergence of others in forms resistant to current antimicrobial agents, natural infectious diseases will remain a tool for mass casualties in the foreseeable future. Accepting ‘‘Mother Nature’’ as the most menacing ‘‘bioterrorist,’’ the concept of terror associated with biologic agents should encompass Bioterrorism, biowarfare, and current and future global infectious diseases with the potential for mass casualties (eg, pandemic influenza) [2]. Epidemiologic principles, diagnostic criteria, and management strategies are common to infectious diseases regardless of the source. Many emerging pathogens are zoonotic in origin. Coordinated and cohesive efforts by scientists, health care providers, veterinarians, and epidemiologists are needed to control the global impact of infectious diseases. In addition, the law has been considered an important tool of public health, an important example being disease-reporting laws. In the context of Bioterrorism, infectious diseases are not only a public health issue, but also an issue of national and international security. The authors of the recently drafted Model State
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Bioterrorism Preparedness: Medicine - Public Health - Policy - Bioterrorism Preparedness : medicine - public health - policy
2006Co-Authors: Nancy KhardoriAbstract:1. Potential Agents of Bioterrorism: Historical Perspective and an Overview (N. Khardori). 2. Bioterrorism Preparedness: Historical Perspective and an Overview (N. Khardori). 3. Care of Children in the Event of Bioterrorism (S. Chaudhary). 4. Smallpox: Virology, Clinical Presentations and Prevention (J. Goodrich). 5. Anthrax: Bacteriology, Clinical Presentations and Management (N. Khardori). 6. Plague: Endemic, Epidemic and Bioterrorism (J. Koirala). 7. Botulism: Toxicology, Clinical Presentations and Management (J. Koirala). 8. Tularemia: Natural Disease versus Act of Terrorism (J. Koirala). 9. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers: Differentiation of Natural Disease from Act of Bioterrorism (J. Goodrich). 10. Policy Priorities: Smallpox, Stockpiles and Syndromic Surveillance (R. Silverman). 11. Legal Preparedness: The Modernization of State, National and International Public Health Law (R. Silverman). Index.
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Bioterrorism Preparedness medicine public health policy
Bioterrorism preparedness: medicine public health policy., 2006Co-Authors: Nancy KhardoriAbstract:1. Potential Agents of Bioterrorism: Historical Perspective and an Overview (N. Khardori). 2. Bioterrorism Preparedness: Historical Perspective and an Overview (N. Khardori). 3. Care of Children in the Event of Bioterrorism (S. Chaudhary). 4. Smallpox: Virology, Clinical Presentations and Prevention (J. Goodrich). 5. Anthrax: Bacteriology, Clinical Presentations and Management (N. Khardori). 6. Plague: Endemic, Epidemic and Bioterrorism (J. Koirala). 7. Botulism: Toxicology, Clinical Presentations and Management (J. Koirala). 8. Tularemia: Natural Disease versus Act of Terrorism (J. Koirala). 9. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers: Differentiation of Natural Disease from Act of Bioterrorism (J. Goodrich). 10. Policy Priorities: Smallpox, Stockpiles and Syndromic Surveillance (R. Silverman). 11. Legal Preparedness: The Modernization of State, National and International Public Health Law (R. Silverman). Index.
