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Increased emergency department presentations for head trauma following media coverage of a fatal epidural hematoma
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Previous reports have demonstrated the media’s influence on ED visits in situations such as dramatized acetaminophen overdose, media report of celebrity suicides, television public announcements for early stroke care and cardiac visits following… read more -
Integrating Medical Examiner Data in Utah
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The Office of the Medical Examiner (OME) is a statewide system for investigation of sudden and unexpected death in Utah. OME, in the Utah Department of Health (UDOH), certified over 2000 of the 13,920 deaths in Utah in 2008. Information from OME… read more -
Using cross-correlation networks to identify and visualize patterns in disease transmission
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Syndromic surveillance data such as the incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) is broadly monitored to provide awareness of respiratory disease epidemiology. Diverse algorithms have been employed to find geospatial trends in … read more -
Evaluation of Legionellosis Surveillance in Michigan Focusing on Diagnostic Testing
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In Michigan, both presentations of legionellosis, Pontiac Fever (PF) and Legionnaires’ Disease (LD), are reportable through the Michigan Disease Surveillance System (MDSS), a web-based electronic database. Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 is… read more -
Using influenza rapid test positivity as an early indicator for the onset of seasonal influenza
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Influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality, with attendant costs of roughly $10 billion for treatment and up to $77 billion in indirect costs annually. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts annual… read more -
Using laboratory and medical encounter records to identify impact of prophylaxis policies on group A Streptococcus in three recruit training facilities
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Group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus (GABHS) has caused outbreaks in recruit training environments, where it leads to significant morbidity and, on occasion, has been linked to deaths. Streptococcal surveillance has long been a… read more -
Standardization to aid interoperability between NLP system
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There are a number of Natural Language Processing (NLP) annotation and Information Extraction (IE) systems and platforms that have been successfully used within the medical domain. Although these groups share components of their systems, there… read more -
Syndromic surveillance of influenza-like illness using automated VA data preliminary results from the Idaho infectious disease reporting network
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Current influenza-like illness monitoring in Idaho is on the basis of syndromic surveillance using laboratory data, combined with periodic person-to-person reports collected by Idaho state workers. This system relies on voluntary reporting.… read more