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Prescription Opioid Abuse: Gleaning insights from hospital and vital records data
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There is a resurgence in the need to evaluate the economic burden of prescription drug hospitalizations in the United States. We used the Wisconsin 2014 Hospital Discharge data to examine opioid related hospitalization incidence and costs. Fentanyl… read more -
2021 Mortality Pilot Project Final Webinar
Content Type: Meeting Recordings & Notes
In 2021, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and CDC’s NSSP partnered with the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) and Ruvos on a project to route mortality data through… read more -
Wildfire and Smoke Syndromic Surveillance: An Implementation Guide for Public Heath Practice
Content Type: Report
Wildfires are an integral part of many ecosystems; however, in recent years, human behavior and climate change have resulted in wildfire seasons that are longer, more destructive, and more costly. During wildfire events, public health responses most… read more -
Motor Vehicle Crash (MVC) Case Definitions and How They Impact MVC Surveillance
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In 2012, an estimated 2.5 million people presented to the ED for a MVC injury in the U.S. National injury surveillance is commonly captured using E-codes. However, use of E-codes alone to capture MVC-related ED visits may result in a… read more -
Natural Language Processing and Technical Challenges of Influenza-Like Illness Surveillance
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Processing free-text clinical information in an electronic medical record (EMR) may enhance surveillance systems for early identification of ILI outbreaks. However, processing clinical text using NLP poses a challenge in preserving the semantics of… read more -
New Master Mapping Reference Table (MMRT) to Assist ICD-10 Transition for Syndromic Surveillance
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As of October 1, 2015, all HIPAA covered entities transition from the use of International Classification of Diseases version 9 (ICD-9-CM) to version 10 (ICD-10-CM/PCS). Many Public Health surveillance entities receive, interpret, analyze, and… read more -
Syndrome Definition (SD) Subcommittee Calls
Content Type: Meeting Recordings & Notes
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Recreational Boating Incidents v1
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: The objective is to identify visits that likely reflected recreational boating incidents that should have been reported via federal regulation (33 CFR 174.121) to the United States Coast Guard as part of the… read more