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Chemical Spill in Kansas: Importance of Sharing Information Across Sites
Content Type: Success Stories
On October 21, 2016, at 8:02 am, a distilling plant in Kansas accidentally mixed sulfuric acid and sodium hypochloride, releasing a plume of chlorine gas. The respiratory effects of breathing chlorine gas can be felt almost immediately and can be… read more -
Mapping Tool between two code sets: ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS
Content Type: Webinar
Join ISDS on June 3rd for an instructional webinar on ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS mapping tools, including the newly released MapIt tool. This tool, which was developed by AHRQ and CDC, is an automated mapping tool that utilizes General Equivalence… read more -
Using Search Volume for Surveillance of Medication Prescribing
Content Type: Abstract
Investigators have used the volume of internet search queries to model disease incidence, especially influenza and general consumer behavior [1]. Our group has used search volume to model interest in FDA safety alerts and adverse drug event… read more -
Using Surveillance Data to Identify Risk Factors for Severe H1N1 in First Nations
Content Type: Abstract
Research has shown that Canadian First Nation (FN) populations were disproportionately affected by the 2009 H1N1 influenza pan- demic. However, the mechanisms for the disproportionate outcomes are not well understood. Possibilities such as… read more -
Using Syndromic Emergency Department Data to Augment Oral Health Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
Using the chief complaint field from our established syndromic ED system, we developed definitions for potentially preventable oral health visits (OHV) and examined patterns in 2009-2011 data. Under the widest definition, OHV comprised about 1% of… read more -
Using the Flow of People in Cluster Detection and Inference
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The traditional SaTScan algorithm[1],[2] uses the euclidean dis- tance between centroids of the regions in a map to assemble a con- nected (in the sense that two connected regions share a physical border) sets of regions. According to the value of… read more -
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