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Comparison of ILINet and ESSENCE for Influenza Surveillance at the Local Level
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ILINet is used nationwide by sentinel healthcare providers for reporting weekly outpatient visit numbers for influenza-like illness to CDC. The Florida Department of Health receives urgent care center (UCC) data through ESSENCE from participating… read more -
Comparison of Three Critical Syndrome Classifications: Louisiana vs. BioSense
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The Louisiana Office of Public Health (OPH) Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section (IDEpi) conducts emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance using the Louisiana Early Event Detection System (LEEDS). IDEpi has the capability to define and… read more -
Discovering the National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC)
Content Type: Webinar
The National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) serves to enable early warning and shared situational awareness of acute biological events and support better decisions through rapid identification, characterization, localization, and tracking… read more -
Usage of Syndromic Surveillance Information to Assist Clinical Decision-Making
Content Type: Webinar
Speakers will be practicing clinician-researchers discussing needs for and ongoing usage of recent, local epidemiological information for decision support. Presenters Andrea Dugas, MD, Attending Physician… read more -
Computational Method for Epidemic Detection in Multiple populations
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Currently Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employ threshold rules to declare epidemic outbreaks, such as influenza, separately in each population. However each year influenza starts in one population and spreads population-to-… read more -
PHIN Messaging Guide for Syndromic Surveillance: Emergency Department and Urgent Care Data, Release 1.1 (August 2012)
Content Type: Messaging Standard
This document represents the collaborative effort of the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to specify a national… read more -
Creating a Local Geographic Influenza-like Illness Activity Report
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Mapping ILI surveillance data can be useful in identifying the direction and speed of an outbreak and for focusing control measures for an efficient public health response. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) ILINet currently… read more -
Cutaneous Anthrax surveillance by Person, Place, and Time in Georgia (2008-2013)
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Cutaneous anthrax is endemic in Georgia. The EIDSS program captures notifications from 72 municipal public health centers. It links urgent notification, case investigation data, and laboratory data on an online basis. Eleven virulent and 4 non-… read more