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Day of Week Analysis of Myocardial Infarctions Using ESSENCE-FL Emergency Department Data
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Syndromic surveillance ED data has historically shown the highest number of visits on Mondays, with decreasing volumes throughout the week. Previous studies have shown that increased negative health outcomes have occurred on Mondays. A study in the… read morePower, Potential, and Pitfalls of Surveillance using Clinical Ancillary Services Data
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Military service members and their families work and live around the world where both endemic and emerging infectious diseases are common. Timely infectious disease surveillance helps to inform medical and policy decisions which ensure mission… read morePractical Story: Real People, Real Urine, Unreal UTI
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Asymptomatic Bacteriuria (ASB) is defined as the presence of bacteria in the urine of a patient without signs or symptoms of a urinary tract infection (UTI). It is one of the most common reasons for inappropriate antibiotic use in hospitalized… read morePrecarious Data: Crack, Opioids, and Visualizing a Drug Abuse Epidemic
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In late 2015, two economists studying health-related data inadvertently discovered an alarming trend: death rates for middle-aged, white Americans were dramatically increasing from drug overdoses (Kolata, 2015), particularly opioids (CDC, 2015). The… read morePrecision public health through clinic-based syndromic surveillance in communities
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In December 2009, TaiwanâÂÂs CDC stopped its sentinel physician surveillance system. Currently, infectious disease surveillance systems in Taiwan rely on not only the national notifiable disease surveillance system but also real-time outbreak and… read morePrevalence of Hepatitis C Testing Among Non-Institutionalized Individuals in the US, NHIS 2013-2017
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the most common blood-borne disease in the US and the leading cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality. Approximately 3.5 million individuals in the US were estimated to have been living with hepatitis C in… read moreProgress in the Development of the Standardized Public Health Emergency Preparedness Terminology
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security National Incident Management System (NIMS) establishes a common framework and common terminology that allows diverse incident management and support organizations to work together across a wide variety of… read moreProgress towards Companion Animal Zoonotic Disease Surveillance in the U.S. Army
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Dogs, cats and other companion animals have played an integral role in many aspects of human life. Human and companion animal (CAs) interactions have a wide range of benefits to human health [1-3]. The threat of zoonotic transmission between CAs and… read more