Although many of the partners reporting alerts during the peak of the cholera epidemic have since left Haiti, the A&R System has continued to function as an Early Warning (EWARN) System, and it continues to be developed with recent activities, such as the distribution of cell phones to enhance alert communication.
He concluded that some songs could be enhanced, but Red Alert had already gone gold, precluding new versions.
We initiated enhanced surveillance locally through alerts to medical examiners and statewide through requests to laboratory directors to forward to the FDOH laboratories any cultures suspicious for Bacillus species isolated from sterile sites.
It was suggested that the sour taste acted as an "alerting" stimulus and enhanced or altered the sensory input to the nervous system and thus facilitated oropharyngeal swallowing in neurogenic dysphagia patients.
Evaluating cases where pharmacists did not adhere to recommendations in alerts and the reasons for non-adherence would be useful in fine-tuning alerts during future developments to enhance the effectiveness of safety alerts and prevent over-alerting and alert fatigue.
Passive reporting was enhanced through media reports and provider alerts.
My favorite was a hospital system highlighted for its ePay portal, "recently enhanced… adding future payment scheduling, mobile alerts and payments and enhanced messaging services.
The screen is bright, so it's easy to read small snippets of text or alerts, while touch navigation is enhanced with more familiar back and OK buttons at the top and bottom of the screen when needed.
These enhanced methods may increase sensitivity without increasing the alert rate and may improve the ability to detect outbreaks by using automated surveillance system data.
First, they only take advantage of the information found in alerts, which is not sufficient to achieve the goals of alert correlation, that is to say to reduce the overall amount of alerts, while enhancing their semantics.
Lao EWARN has greatly enhanced early outbreak recognition since 2008, as evidenced by outbreak alerts for epidemic cholera (2009) and dengue (2010).
