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MERS Syndromic Surveillance Guidance Review
Content Type: Webinar
Please join ISDS and CDC for an information webinar related to syndromic surveillance of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the US.On May 2, 2014, the first U.S. imported case of MERS was confirmed in Indiana. Guidance was recently… read more… Document Running_Mers_Definitions_In_Rstudio_Biosense_Template_Webinar_Slidea.pdf … 1 ISDS … Team Running the MERS definition queries in Rstudio https://biosen.se Public Health Surveillance … -
Technical Challenges from the Public Health Practice Community to Statisticians and Analysts
Content Type: Webinar
On May 28th, 2009, the ISDS Research and Public Health Practice Committees hosted a joint panel with the goal of bringing current challenges faced by public health practitioners to the attention of the research community at large. Members of both… read more… how+much+staff,+which+what+training?+ Syndromic%surveillance% Epidemiologists% … Public%Health%Nurses% Limited%formal%training%–%% Experience%based% … hospital relationships, and local protocols n Level of training Expectations of ED-based Syndromic Surveillance n … -
Resolving the 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' Syndrome
Content Type: Abstract
To date, most syndromic surveillance systems rely heavily on complicated statistical algorithms to identify aberrations. The assumption is that when the statistics identify something unusual, follow-up should occur. However, with multiple strata… read more… phrases, and combinations of variables were used to train the natural language processor (NLP) on which records … and alerting thresholds needed to cause a flag and (2) training the NLP to return a list of key chief complaints … -
Data Flow: Data Element Requirements
Content Type: Surveillance Tools and Systems
The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) conducted a three-part webinar series in 2016 to describe how… read more… that defines whether the message is part of a production, training, or debugging system No MSH-11.1 N/A [1.. 1] PT …