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Expanding Collaborations to Chart a New Course in Public Health Surveillance
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The International Society for Disease Surveillance held its eleventh annual conference in San Diego on December 4th and 5th, 2012, under the theme Expanding Collaborations to Chart a New Course in Public Health Surveillance. During these two… read more -
Access to and use of syndromic surveillance information at the local health department level
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Syndromic surveillance data have been widely shown to be useful to large health departments. Use at smaller local health departments (LHDs) has rarely been described, and the effectiveness of various methods of delivering syndromic… read more -
Cross Disciplinary Consultancy: Negation Detection Use Case
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Despite considerable effort since the turn of the century to develop Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods and tools for detecting negated terms in chief complaints, few standardised methods have emerged. Those methods that have emerged (e.g.… read more -
Evaluation of Pedestrian/Bicycle Crash Injury Case Definitions for Use with NC DETECT
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Over the last few decades, the United States has made considerable progress in decreasing the incidence of motor vehicle occupants injured and killed in traffic collisions.1 However, there is still a need for continued motor vehicle crash (MVC)… read more -
Identifying Emergency Department Care in the Year Prior to Suicide Death
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Suicide is a leading cause of mortality in the United States, causing about 45,000 deaths annually. Research suggests that universal screening in health care settings may be beneficial for prevention, but few studies have combined detailed suicide… read more -
Optimization of Linkage between North Carolina EMS and ED Data: EMS Naloxone Cases
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The opioid overdose crisis has rapidly expanded in North Carolina (NC), paralleling the epidemic across the United States. The number of opioid overdose deaths in NC has increased by nearly 40% each year since 2015.1 Critical to preventing overdose… read more -
Using State and National Surveillance Systems during World Equestrian Games in NC
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North Carolina hosted the 2018 FEI WEG in Polk County at the Tryon Equestrian Center in September 2018. Polk County, located in the Mountain region of Western North Carolina, is home to 20,357 people, and the population is widely distributed. Event… read more -
Using Syndromic Surveillance for All-Hazards Public Health Surveillance: Successes, Challenges, and the Future
Content Type: Journal Article
Fifteen years have passed since the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 called for the establishment of nationwide surveillance and reporting mechanisms to detect bioterrorism-related events. In the… read more