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Jurisdictional Usage of the New ESSENCE Word Alert Feature
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Syndromic surveillance systems have historically focused on aggregating data into syndromes for analysis and visualization. These syndromes provide users a way to quickly filter large amounts of data into a manageable number of streams to analyze.… read more -
A practitioner-driven research agenda for syndromic surveillance
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To obtain feedback and seek future directions for an ISDS initiative to establish and update research questions in Informatics, Analytics, Communications, and Systems Research with the greatest perceived impact for improving surveillance practice. -
Somebody’s Poisoned the Waterhole: ASPCA Poison Control Center Data to Identify Animal Health Risks
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The APCC hotline fields daily calls regarding potential animal intoxications from the US, its territories, and Canada. We explored the value of these data for identifying increased occurrences of intoxications related to livestock and poultry… read more -
Assessment of National Poison Data System Algorithms to identify Public Health Events
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NPDS is a near real-time surveillance system and national database operated by the American Association of Poison Control Centers. NPDS receives records of all calls made to the 55 regional US poison centers (PCs). The Centers for Disease Control… read more -
Effective Collaboration Models for Statiscians and Public Health Departments
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Public health departments need enhanced surveillance tools for population monitoring, and external researchers have expertise and methods to provide these tools. However, collaboration with potential solution developers and students in academia,… read more -
Where do you Find Interesting Biosurveillance Publications?
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To identify the disciplines and journal titles of surveillance-related publications from a wide range of indexed repositories and to draw attention to the publication repository created by the ISDS Research Committee. Introduction… read more -
Real-time Laboratory-Based Influenza Surveillance with Xpert Flu
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Previous studies have demonstrated the benefit of laboratory surveillance and its capability to accurately detect influenza outbreaks earlier than syndromic surveillance. Current laboratory surveillance has an approximate 2-week lag due to… read more -
Utility and Acceptability of Influenza Surveillance amongst Emergency Providers
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Each year, influenza affects approximately 5-20% of the United States population causing over 200,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 – 49,000 death. As a key point of entry to the health care system, EDs are responsible for the initial management and… read more