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Opioid Diagnosis Codes - Adapted from the HCUP Definition - Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Content Type: Syndrome
This syndrome was created as a way to integrate the H-CUP Opioid-Related Hospital Use definition into ESSENCE. H-CUP is the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project and we believe their Opioid-Related Hospital Use definition is a great starting point… read more -
Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia** - Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Content Type: Syndrome
This syndrome was created as a way to monitor Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia in Kansas Emergency Department visits. **Please note that the hypothermia portion of this syndrome was created to ONLY include hypothermia associated with low… read more -
Exposure to Forces of Nature (Weather) Diagnosis Codes - Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Content Type: Syndrome
This syndrome was created to capture cases where the "exposure to forces of nature" diagnosis codes are sent. This was created as a starting place for weather surveillance and should capture all weather-related events that are explicitly stated and… read more -
Tractable Use Cases for Collaboration in Public Health Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
The mission of the ISDS TCC is to bridge the gap between the analytic needs of public health practitioners and the expertise of researchers from other fields for the enhancement of disease surveillance, including situational awareness of chronic as… read more -
Tuberculosis Unseen - Missed Opportunities in Diagnosis
Content Type: Abstract
Historically, patients with TB have often been diagnosed late or after death. This delay in diagnosis often occurs because TB is misdiagnosed as an alternative respiratory illness (RI), such as pneumonia . TB infected patients that are not… read more -
Unintentional Drug Overdoses in Virginia: Analysis of Syndromic and Death Data
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Drug overdoses and related deaths have been escalating nationally since 1970. In Virginia, the rate of drug overdose deaths increased 36% from 5.0 to 6.8 deaths per 100,000 population between 1999 and 2010. While initiated for bioterrorism event… read more -
Unplanned School Closures in the United States: Evaluation of Economic and Social Costs and Consequences for Students’ Families
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends implementing early targeted school closures as one of the front-line interventions to slow progression of a severe influenza pandemic before appropriate vaccine becomes available.… read more -
Use of Administrative Health Care Data for Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
Surveillance for STD in the United States (US) relies primarily on case reports from clinicians and laboratories and sentinel surveillance; however, nationwide reporting is not required for viral STD and clinical sequelae of STD. … read more