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Surveillance of Heat-related Morbidity: Relation to Heat-related Excess Mortality
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The impact of heat on mortality is well documented but deaths tend to lag extreme heat and mortality data is generally not available for timely surveillance during heat waves. Recently, systems for near-real time surveillance of heat illness… read more -
Recommendations for Syndromic Surveillance Using Inpatient and Ambulatory EHR Data
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MUse will make EHR data increasingly available for public health surveillance. For Stage 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations will require hospitals and offer an option for eligible professionals to provide… read more -
Refactoring INDICATOR into an Advanced Information System for One Health Monitoring
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INDICATOR is a multi-stream open source platform for biosurveillance and outbreak detection, currently focused on Champaign County in Illinois[1]. It has been in production since 2008 and is currently receiving data from emergency departments,… read more -
Evaluation of Exposure-Type Stratification to Improve Poison Center Surveillance
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses the National Poison Data System (NPDS) to conduct surveillance of calls to United States poison centers (PCs) to identify clusters of reports of hazardous exposures and illnesses. NPDS stores… read more -
Refinement of a Population-Based Bayesian Network for Fusion of Health Surveillance Data
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The ESSENCE demonstration module was built to help DoD health monitors make routine decisions based on disparate evidence sources such as daily counts of ILI-related chief complaints, ratios of positive lab tests for influenza, patient age… read more -
Risk and Protective Factors for Arthritis Status and Severity
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Research has indicated several risk and protective factors for arthritis, including cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, obesity, and physical activity (1–4). However, it is not well understood how all these factors interact to increase/decrease… read more -
Risk of Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in Relation to Temperature
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Extreme temperatures are consistently shown to have an effect on CVD-related mortality [1, 2]. A large multi-city study of mortality demonstrated a cold-day and hot-day weather effect on CVD-related deaths, with the larger impact occurring on the… read more -
Serum Zinc Concentration and Acute Diarrhea in Children from Different Regions of Uzbekistan
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There are several reports of zinc deficiency in pathogenesis of acute and chronic diarrhea. The literature review showed children with diarrhea and chronic gastroduodenitis performed zinc deficiency in majority of cases (1). The normal values of… read more