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  • National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP) Expert Panel - Part I: Leading Community Groups

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented February 13, 2019. This webinar is the first installment of the 2-part NSSP CoP Expert Panel Webinar Series on Being a Leader in Your Community.… read more
    … This webinar is the first installment of the 2-part NSSP CoP Expert Panel Webinar Series on Being a Leader in Your … What partners were involved? Mission/Goals? How did you come into your role? Were you asked to chair a group or was … Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP) Expert Panel – Part I: Leading Community Groups  …
  • Tractable Use Cases for Collaboration in Public Health Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The mission of the ISDS TCC is to bridge the gap between the analytic needs of public health practitioners and the expertise of researchers from other fields for the enhancement of disease surveillance, including situational awareness of chronic as… read more
    … to permit posting of benchmark datasets, http://www.syndromic.org/ communities/technical-conventions. Recent … to permit posting of benchmark datasets, http://www.syndromic.org/ communities/technical-conventions. Recent …
  • Tuning a Chief Complaint Text Parser for Use in DoD ESSENCE

    Content Type: Abstract

    An expanded ambulatory health record, the Comprehensive Ambulatory Patient Encounter Record (CAPER) will provide multiple types of data for use in DoD ESSENCE. A new type of data not previously available is the Reason for Visit (ROV), a free-text… read more
    … (CC). Intake personnel ask patients why they have come to the clinic and record their responses. … the covered population. For example, consider the Shock/Coma syndrome. Loss of consciousness is relatively common in … to the CC. Intake personnel ask patients why they have come to the clinic and record their responses. …
  • Utility of Syndromic Surveillance for Investigating Morbidity Resulting from a Severe Weather Event

    Content Type: Abstract

    On 12/14/06, a windstorm in western Washington caused 4 million residents to lose power; within 24 hours, a surge in patients presented to emergency departments (EDs) with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. As previously described, records of… read more
    … to emergency departments (EDs) with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. As previously described, records of all patients presenting to King County EDs with CO poisoning between 12/15/06 to 12/24/06 (n=279) were … attempted to identify each of the 249 confirmed cases of CO poisoning in our syndromic ED data set by comparing the …
  • Development and Evaluation of a Data-adaptive Algorithm for Univariate Temporal Biosurveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Numerous recent papers have evaluated algorithms for biosurveillance anomaly detection. Common essential problems in the disparate, evolving data environment include trends, day-of-week effects, and other systematic behavior.… read more
    … 2007, Statistics in Medicine, available at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi- bin/fulltext/114131913/PDFSTART. 2. Brillman JC, …
  • Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more
    … Olson et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 4949 SAS if preferred. Sites were asked … M, Buehler JW, Mostashari F. Adv Dis Surv 2008;5:185 www.isdsjournal.org/article/view/3307/2456. 2 Paladini M, … J, Murray E, Gunn J, Olson D. Adv Dis Surv 2008;5:50 www.isdsjournal.org/article/view/3252/2359. 3 Pendarvis J, …
  • Adopting a common influenza-like illness syndrome across multiple health jurisdictions

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance systems were designed for early outbreak and bioterrorism event detection. As practical experience shaped development and implementation, these systems became more broadly used for general surveillance and situational… read more
    … concept, 2006 to 2009. PLoS Curr. 2011;3:RRN1251. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/21894257. *Don Olson E-mail: drolson@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. … 2011, 4: 11069 - DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v4i0.11069 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21894257 …
  • Evaluating Pandemic Influenza Surveillance and Response Systems in Developing Countries: Framework and Pilot Application

    Content Type: Abstract

    A pandemic caused by influenza A/H5N1 or another novel strain could kill millions of people and devastate economies worldwide. Recent computer simulations suggest that an emerging influenza pandemic might be contained in Southeast Asia through rapid… read more
    … delays in pandemic recognition. Wealthy countries have com- mitted substantial funds to improve pandemic detec- … Interval between symptom onset and presentation for con- firmed human H5N1 cases with publicly available WHO … Health Organization. WHO pandemic influenza draft proto- col for rapid response and containment. Draft 30, May 2006. …