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Urgent Care Data...should we collect, how, and why?
Content Type: Webinar
More and more patients frequent Urgent Care facilites. In this webinar, we will discuss how NSSP jurisdictions collect it, how is it formatted, and what have they learned; what's the best way to capture and share this information; and why should we… read more -
Preventing blindness due to diabetic retinopathy in India: Need for a paradigm shift
Content Type: Webinar
Estimates suggest that there are 65 million persons living with diabetes in India and 6 million are at risk of going blind due to retinopathy. Recent studies highlight that 45% persons with diabetes are already blind when they present to an eye care… read more -
Tools and Apps to Enhance Situational Awareness for Global Disease Surveillance
Content Type: Webinar
Situational awareness is important for early warning and early detection of infectious disease outbreaks and occurs at both local and global scales. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is developing a suite of tools to provide actionable… read more -
ICD-9 code reporting among patients from the Minnesota SARI surveillance program
Content Type: Abstract
The ICD-9 codes for acute respiratory illness (ARI) and pneumonia/influenza (P&I) are commonly used in ARI surveillance; however, few studies evaluate the accuracy of these codes or the importance of ICD-9 position. We reviewed ICD-9 codes… read more -
Animal Health Surveillance in the US: How do we go from good to great?
Content Type: Webinar
Presenter Dr. Brian McCluskey Brian received a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Washington State University in 1987 and following graduation was in large animal practice, primarily dairy, in western… read more -
Analytic Methodologies for Disease Surveillance Using Multiple Sources of Evidence
Content Type: Webinar
This presentation is for public health practitioners and methodology developers interested in using statistical methods to combine evidence from multiple data sources for increased sensitivity to disease outbreaks. Methods described will account for… read more -
Identification of Sufferers of Rare Diseases Using Medical Claims Data
Content Type: Abstract
Patients who suffer from rare diseases can be hard to diagnose for prolonged periods of time. In the process, they are often subjected to tentative treatments for ailments they do not have, risking an escalation of their actual condition and side… read more -
Identifying and Communicating the Importance of the Variable Nature of SyS Data
Content Type: Abstract
As syndromic surveillance systems continue to grow, new opportunities have arisen to utilize the data in new or alternative ways for which the system was not initially designed. For example, in many jurisdictions syndromic surveillance has recently… read more