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Characteristics of Veterans Accessing the Veterans Affairs Telephone Triage Who Have Depression or Suicidal Ideation: Opportunities for Intervention
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Veterans accessing Veterans Affairs (VA) health care have higher suicide rates and more characteristics associated with suicide risk, including being male, having multiple medical and psychiatric comorbidities, and being an older age, compared with… read moreCo-morbidity Factors Associated with Influenza in Nigeria
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Influenza is viral illness that affects mainly the nose, throat, bronchi and occasionally, the lungs. Influenza viruses have been an under-appreciated contributor to morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. They are a substantial contributor to… read moreCollaboration for Improved Disease Surveillance Literature Review
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The ISDS Research Committee (RC) is an interdisciplinary group of researchers interested in various topics related to disease surveillance. The RC hosts a literature review process with a permanent repository of relevant journal articles and… read moreA Novel Hotel-based Syndromic Surveillance System for the Caribbean Region
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To describe the Caribbean Public Health Agency’s (CARPHA) Tourism and Health Information System (THiS), a web-based syndromic surveillance system to increase the capacity of Caribbean countries to monitor the health of visitors and staff in hotels,… read moreCollaborative Automation Reliably Remediating Erroneous Conclusion Threats (CARRECT)
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Analyses produced by epidemiologists and public health practitioners are susceptible to bias from a number of sources including missing data, confounding variables, and statistical model selection. It often requires a great deal of expertise to… read moreComparing Prescription Sales, Google Trends and CDC Data as Flu Activity Indicators
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In a 2007 survey of public health officials in the United States, International Society for Disease Surveillance found that only 7% used pharmacy prescription sales data for surveillance (1). There have been many reports suggesting effective use of… read moreDenver County Clostridium difficile Trends and Associated Risk Factors 2011-2013
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Clostridium difficile (CD), a gram-negative, anaerobic, sporeforming bacterium causes symptoms ranging from mild to severe diarrhea and may result in death. Approximately 75% of CDI cases have symptom onset outside of health care settings.… read moreClassification and Capture of Work-Related Non-Fatal Injuries Through a Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance System
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Syndromic surveillance has been used by state agencies to collect real-time information on disease outbreaks but has not been used to collect data in the occupational setting. Therefore, OHS staff has begun evaluating a real-time surveillance tool… read more