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Prescription Opioid Abuse: Gleaning insights from hospital and vital records data
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There is a resurgence in the need to evaluate the economic burden of prescription drug hospitalizations in the United States. We used the Wisconsin 2014 Hospital Discharge data to examine opioid related hospitalization incidence and costs. Fentanyl… read more -
Wildfire and Smoke Syndromic Surveillance: An Implementation Guide for Public Heath Practice
Content Type: Report
Wildfires are an integral part of many ecosystems; however, in recent years, human behavior and climate change have resulted in wildfire seasons that are longer, more destructive, and more costly. During wildfire events, public health responses most… read more -
Motor Vehicle Crash (MVC) Case Definitions and How They Impact MVC Surveillance
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In 2012, an estimated 2.5 million people presented to the ED for a MVC injury in the U.S. National injury surveillance is commonly captured using E-codes. However, use of E-codes alone to capture MVC-related ED visits may result in a… read more -
Natural Language Processing and Technical Challenges of Influenza-Like Illness Surveillance
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Processing free-text clinical information in an electronic medical record (EMR) may enhance surveillance systems for early identification of ILI outbreaks. However, processing clinical text using NLP poses a challenge in preserving the semantics of… read more -
New Master Mapping Reference Table (MMRT) to Assist ICD-10 Transition for Syndromic Surveillance
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As of October 1, 2015, all HIPAA covered entities transition from the use of International Classification of Diseases version 9 (ICD-9-CM) to version 10 (ICD-10-CM/PCS). Many Public Health surveillance entities receive, interpret, analyze, and… read more -
2022 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium
Content Type: Report
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP), virtually convened the 2022 Syndromic… read more -
CDC Chickenpox v2
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To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in identifying patients likely to have varicella (chickenpox) by reviewing visits in the emergency department (ED) and urgent care (UC) settings for early varicella… read more -
CDC Motor Vehicle Crash Occupant Injury v1
Content Type: Syndrome
The purpose of this syndromic surveillance query is to monitor trends in unintentional motor vehicle traffic-related crash injury among passenger vehicle occupants who present to emergency departments. Passenger vehicles are defined as cars/SUVs,… read more