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  • Tracking suspected heroin overdoses in CDC's National Syndromic Surveillance Program

    Content Type: Abstract

    Overdose deaths involving opioids (i.e., opioid pain relievers and illicit opioids such as heroin) accounted for at least 63% (N = 33,091) of overdose deaths in 2015. Overdose deaths related to illicit opioids, heroin and illicitly-manufactured… read more
    … near real-time ED data on approximately two-thirds of ED visits in the US. NSSP’s data analysis and visualization … allows for tailored syndrome queries and can monitor ED visits related to heroin overdose at the local, state, … near real-time ED data on approximately two-thirds of ED visits in the US. NSSP’s data analysis and visualization …
  • Approaches to Syndromic Case Definitions for Drug Overdose Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    This focus of this webinar is to describe different syndromic surveillance approaches to drug overdose surveillance. Presenters will share how their case definitions were developed, stakeholders involved, intended audience and uses, as well as… read more
    … "  ED syndromic rapid data collection "  26 ED visits for every one OPR death !  Identify drug … and all drug- related ED visits have similar curves *Y-axis not reported because data are preliminary and may …
  • Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series #1: Rapid surveillance of overdose morbidity - Developing case definitions, building queries, and analyzing results

    Content Type: Webinar

    This is the first installment of the ISDS Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series, June - July, 2017. Click here for Part 2 of… read more
    … Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wisconsin 26 Why Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance? � Need � … One Health Surveillance Committee Call Monday, June 26, 12 pm – 1 pm ET R Group for Biosurveillance Meeting Monday, June 26, 1 pm - 2 pm ET ISDS Surveillance CoP Call Tuesday, June …