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Effect of the Work Week on Demographics of Heat-Related Illness Patients in Syndromic Surveillance
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As global temperatures increase, so too does interest in the effect of climate change on the populationâs health. 2016 represented the hottest year on record globally and well above the 20th century average in Virginia. With large-scale climate… read moreLessons Learned from a Healthcare Associated Infection Tabletop Exercise, June 2017
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One in twenty-five patients in acute care hospitals develop at least one health care associated infection (HAI); this resulted in approximately 75,000 preventable deaths in 2011. Risk factors associated with developing HAIs include older patients,… read moreImplementation of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) in Swaziland
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Swaziland adopted the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy in 2010 to strengthen Public Health Surveillance (PHS) that fulfills International Health Regulations (2005) and the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). This… read moreInvestigating Other Syndrome in ESSENCE from a Data Quality Perspective
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The Louisiana Office of Public Health (OPH) Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section (IDEpi) conducts syndromic surveillance of Emergency Department (ED) visits through the Louisiana Early Event Detection System (LEEDS) and submits the collected data… read moreNiche Modeling of Dengue Fever Using Remotely Sensed Environmental Factors and BRT
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Dengue Fever (DF) is a vector-borne disease of the flavivirus family carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, and one of the leading causes of illness and death in tropical regions of the world. Nearly 400 million people become infected each year,… read moreComparing and Contrasting Two ESSENCE Syndrome Definition Query Methods
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The Kansas Syndromic Surveillance Program (KSSP) utilizes the ESSENCE v.1.20 program provided by the National Syndromic Surveillance Program to view and analyze Kansas Emergency Department (ED) data. Methods that allow an ESSENCE user to query both… read moreCreation of a Technical Tool to Improve Syndromic Surveillance Onboarding in Tennessee
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Syndromic surveillance is commonly supported by information generated from electronic health record (EHR) systems and sent to public health via standardized messaging. Before public health can receive syndromic surveillance information from an EHR,… read moreAssessing Definitions of Heroin Overdose in ED & EMS Data Using Hospital Billing Data
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In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded 12 states, under the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) program, to utilize state Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and emergency department syndromic surveillance (SyS)… read more