February 24, 2012 · Influenza Gerardo Chowell1, Santiago Echevarría-Zuno2, Cecile Viboud3, Lone Simonsen4, Concepcion Grajales Muñiz5, Ramón Alberto Rascón Pacheco6, Margot González León7, Víctor Hugo Borja Aburto8 1 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; Fogarty International Center, National Institues of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, 2 Dirección de Prestaciones Médicas, Instituto Mexicano del...

Cardiovascular Biology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, Urbana, IL, USA. College of Medicine, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, Urbana, IL, USA. Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, OK, USA. Department of Pathology, University of Oklaho...

a) Department of Radiological Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ami 4669-2, Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-0394, Japan b) MI clinic, Syouji 1-12-13, Toyonaka City, Osaka 560-0004, Japan c) National Institute of Public Health, Minami 2-3-6, Wako City, Saitama 351-0197, Japan d) Yokohama Rousai Hospital, Kodzukue-cho 3211, Kofuku-ku, Yok...

INTRODUCTION Electronic health records (EHRs) can potentially extend chronic disease surveillance, but few EHR-based initiatives tracking population-based metrics have been validated for accuracy. We designed a new EHR-based population health surveillance system for New York City (NYC) known as NYC Macroscope. This report is the third in a 3-part series describing the development and validation...

Understanding determinants of urban health is of growing importance. Factors at multiple scales intertwine to influence health in cities but, with the growing autonomy of some cities from their countries, city population health may be becoming more a matter for city-level rather than national-level policy and action. We assess the importance of city, country, and macroregional (Western and East...

236. Taking an Antibiotic Timeout: Utilizing an Antibiotic Renewal Template for Automatic Approval of Vancomycin and Piperacillintazobactam Christopher J. Graber, MD, MPH, FIDSA; Makoto Jones, MD, MS; Kevin Nechodom, BS; Peter Glassman, MBBS, MSc; Jorie Butler, PhD; Charlene Weir, PhD, IDEAS; Amy Furman, PharmD; Chad Kay, PharmD; Lori Pollack, MD, MPH; Matthew Samore, MD; Matthew Bidwell Goetz,...

The perceived benefits of a One Health approach are largely hinged on increasing public health efficiency and cost effectiveness through a better understanding of disease risk-through shared control and detection efforts, and results that benefit human, animal and ecosystem health. However, there have been few efforts to identify and systematize One Health metrics to assess these perceived effi...

Laboratory for Advanced Rehabilitation Research in Simulation, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, School of Health Professions, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States, Office of the Dean, School of Health Professions, University o...