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Resolving the 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' Syndrome
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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 -
Using Syndromic Surveillance Data to Study the Impact of Media Content on Self-harm
Content Type: Abstract
In 2016, a half million people were treated in U.S. emergency departments (EDs) as a result of self-harm. 1 Not only is self-harm a major cause of morbidity in the U.S., but it is also one of the best predictors of suicide. Given that approximately… read more -
What Can You Really Do with 35,000 Statistical Alerts a Week Anyways?
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The National Syndromic Surveillance Program's (NSSP) instance of ESSENCE* in the BioSense Platform generates about 35,000 statistical alerts each week. Local ESSENCE instances can generate as many as 5,000 statistical alerts each week. While some… read more -
The National Syndromic Surveillance Program
Content Type: Webinar
Join Michael Coletta, CDC Program Manager, for a presentation on the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP - formerly known as BioSense). Following a thorough review of the BioSense Program in 2013, CDC initiated the BioSense… read more -
Update on the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program
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The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 mandated establishing an integrated national public health surveillance system for early detection and rapid assessment of potential bioterrorism-related illness. In… read more -
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 -
Overcoming Operational Differences to Attain a National Picture for Novel Threats
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The May arrival of two cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the US offered CDC’s BioSense SyS Program an opportunity to give CDC’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and state-and-local jurisdictions an enhanced national picture of… read more -
Why You Should Participate in HHS (Health and Human Services) Regional Epi Groups
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One of the early successes for the National Syndromic Surveillance Program's (NSSP's) BioSense Platform was community agreement on what should make up national and regional picture of the data. For NSSP to meet program objectives, National level… read more