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  • Capacity and Needs Assessment for Establishing a Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural China: A Mixed Study

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    Syndromic surveillance has great advantages in promoting the early detection of infectious disease outbreak and enabling the real-time tracking of on-going epidemics. However, establishing a syndromic surveillance system required huge investment in… read more
    … system, so as to design customized capacity building and training strategies. Submitted by knowledge_repo… on Wed, … system, so as to design customized capacity building and training strategies. … Capacity and Needs Assessment for …
  • The NGram CC Classifier: A Novel Method of Automatically Creating CC Classifiers Based on ICD9 Groupings

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    Syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) visit data is often based on computer algorithms which assign patient chief complaints (CC) to syndromes. ICD9 code data may also be used to develop visit classifiers for syndromic surveillance but… read more
    … (AT&T Labs). The method applies the ICD9 classifier to a training set of ED visits for which both the CC and ICD9 … (AT&T Labs). The method applies the ICD9 classifier to a training set of ED visits for which both the CC and ICD9 … abdominal pain. The ICD9 classifier was applied to a training set of visits for the year 2000 to create the ngram …
  • Early Detection of Tuberculosis Outbreaks among the San Francisco Homeless

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    San Francisco has the highest rate of TB in the US. Although in recent years the incidence of TB has been declining in the San Francisco general population, it has remained relatively constant in the homeless population. Spatial… read more
    … timeliness, and the amount of historical data needed for training the model. Document … and the amount of his- torical data needed for training the model. BACKGROUND San Francisco has the highest … and smaller amount of historical data is required for training the model, the detection sensitivity results are …
  • Putting Data Linkage into FIRST Gear: Lessons from Firefighter Injury Research

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    This work builds on a successful demonstration project and expands its data linkage capacity to new community partners. Presently, a national non-fatal injury reporting system does not exist for the Fire Service. In order to tell the story of all… read more
    … human resources, and continuing education/training registries. Submitted by rmathes on Thu, 12/28/2017 … human resources, and continuing education/training registries. … Putting Data Linkage into FIRST Gear: …
  • Improvement of Epidemiology Business Processes through the Evolution of Biosurveillance

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    In the last decade, the scope of public health (PH) surveillance has grown, and biosurveillance capacity has expanded in Duval County. In 2004, the Duval County Health Department (DCHD) implemented a standalone syndromic surveillance (SS) system… read more
    … newsletters, media responses); 3) reduction in staff training needs; and 4) augmentation of epidemiology … newsletters and media responses); (3) reduction in staff training needs; and (4) augmentation of epidemiology … Tools. The number of software or systems requiring training, which were replaced by ESSENCE, was reviewed. …
  • Examining and improving reproducible research practices in public health

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    An important goal of surveillance is to inform public health interventions that aim to reduce the burden of disease in the population. Ensuring accuracy of results is paramount to achieving this goal. However, science is currently facing a… read more
    … SEER, and others. As part of our overall goal to improve training around reproducible research practices, we surveyed … SEER, and others. As part of our overall goal to improve training around reproducible research practices, we surveyed …
  • International Collaboration for Improved Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response in India

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    The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005, provides a framework that supports efforts to improve global health security and requires that, member states develop and strengthen systems and capacity for disease surveillance and detection and… read more
    … a cadre of trainers through the inter-related streams of training & education to enhance knowledge and skills and the … a cadre of trainers through the inter-related streams of training & education to enhance knowledge and skills and the …
  • Field-based Evaluation of Malaria Outbreak Detection & Response, Mudzi and Goromonzi

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    Infectious disease outbreaks, such as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, highlight the need for surveillance systems to quickly detect outbreaks and provide data to prevent future pandemics. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Joint… read more
    … surveillance improvement initiatives, such as enhanced training or strengthening data transfer mechanisms before … surveillance improvement initiatives, such as enhanced training or strengthening data transfer mechanisms before …