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  • Improving Rabies Surveillance Using Syndromic Data

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    In order to assess the use of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis in Indiana, the Communicable Disease Reporting Rule, adopted October 11, 2000, requires the reporting of rabies PEP administration. Indiana is a “home rule” state; that is to say, local… read more
    … METHODS Initially, the veterinary epidemiologist used the ESSENCE query feature to search for rabies related patient … chief complaint after it has been processed by the ESSENCE chief complaint parser. (CCP like '%BAT%' and CCP …
  • Finding medically unexplained symptoms within VA clinical documents using v3NLP

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    Pro-WATCH (protecting war fighters using algorithms for text processing to capture health events), a syndromic surveillance project for veterans of operation enduring freedom (OEF)/operation Iraqi freedom (OIF), includes a task to identify medically… read more
    … machine learning model, trained using annotations from a training corpus currently under devel- opment. A statistical … duration component of the symptom identifica- tion. The training corpus is expected to have duration assertions. The …
  • Automated Detection of GI Syndrome using Structured and Non-Structured Data from the VA EMR

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    Objective We performed a gold-standard manual chart review for gastro-intestinal syndrome to evaluate automated detection models based on both structured and non-structured data extracted from the VA … read more
    … models included “GI” ICD-9 code sets used in the “ESSENCE” and the “BioSense” syndromic surveillance systems. … on the index visit day of fever > 37.8ºC. RESULTS The ESSENCE and BioSense ICD-9 code sets detected 242 GI …
  • Substance Abuse Among Youth in Miami-Dade County, 2005-2007

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    The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 9th to 12th graders in Miami-Dade County public schools found that 69.7% of students tried alcohol, 28.3% tried marijuana, and 6.3% tried cocaine in their lifetime. Results also showed that… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) 2) Miami-Dade Fire Rescue 911 Call Center 3) Agency … arrests SAS 9.1.3 was utilized for analysis RESULTS ESSENCE In 2006, there were 431 ED visits for substance …
  • Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance System Evaluation, Ebonyi State Nigeria, 2017

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    Nigeria is one of the three countries in the world with ongoing wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission, alongside Afghanistan and Pakistan. Nigeria also experiences outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2). Following the… read more
    … P. Ossai6 1Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Asokoro, Nigeria; 2Community Medicine, … of Health and Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program for supporting the study. References 1. …
  • A bootstrapping method to improve cohort identification

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    The research reported in this paper is part of a larger effort to achieve better signal-to-noise ratio, hence accuracy, in pharmacovigilance applications. The relatively low frequency of occurrence of adverse drug reactions leads to… read more
    … encounters with related ICD-9 codes. 2. Identify a training set T, from W, containing positive and negative … of ICD-9 codes of the given diagnosis, tapers down as training progresses, while the learned relationship …
  • Public health surveillance after the Haiti earthquake: the Florida experience

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    On 12 January 2010 at 1652 hours local time, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and created enormous devastation. Florida, as the state closest to Haiti, became an initial focal point… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). On 15 January 15 2010, the Florida Department of … of Epidemiology, requested that hospitals reporting to ESSENCE add the word ‘Haiti’ to chief complaints of visits …
  • Implementation and Comparison of Preprocessing Methods for Biosurveillance Data

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    Modern biosurveillance relies on multiple sources of both prediagnostic and diagnostic data, updated daily, to discover disease outbreaks. Intrinsic to this effort are two assumptions: (1) the data being analyzed contain early indicators… read more
    … Aberration Reporting System; ED, emergency department; ESSENCE, Electronic Surveillance Systems for the Early …