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A Semantic Platform for Surveillance of Adverse Childhood Experiences
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been linked to a variety of detrimental health and social outcomes. In the last 20 years, the association between ACEs with several adult health risk behaviors, conditions, and diseases including suicides,… read more -
A strategy of analysis of free-text E-death certificates using machine learning
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In 2004, Sante publique France, the French Public Health Agency set up a reactive all-cause mortality surveillance based on the administrative part of the death certificate, in the final objectives 1/ to detect unexpected or usual variations in… read more -
A Tool for Promoting Responsible Antibiotic Prescribing across Settings and Sectors
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Antibiotic resistance is a mounting public health threat calling for action on global, national and local levels. Antibiotic use has been a major driver of increasing rates of antibiotic resistance. This has given rise to the practice of antibiotic… read more -
Accuracy of ICD Codes for Identification: Review of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and Syphilis
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Administrative data refers to data generated during the processes of health care. These data are a rich source of patient health information, including diagnoses and problem lists, laboratory and diagnostic tests, and medications. Established… read more -
Active Surveillance in the investigation and analysis of RVFin WesternandCentralUganda
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Although in E. Africa RVF was initially detected and known to be a disease endermic in Kenya, the people in Uganda were still hesitating wether the disease is already in existence. Following its first detection in 2016 in Humans there was need to… read more -
Acute Hepatitis A Infection and Vaccination in the Veterans Health Administration
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Since hepatitis A vaccination became widely recommended in the US in the mid-1990's, rates of acute hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection have steadily declined, however, since 2011, incidence of new cases of HAV appears to be increasing1, often linked… read more -
Acute Hepatitis A Infections among Veterans in Outbreak States, 2016-2018
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Although cases of acute HAV have declined in recent years, elevated numbers of HAV infections began to be reported by California and Michigan in the fall of 2016.1,2 Since this time, associated outbreaks have been reported in 9 additional states (… read more -
Adolescent prescription opioid misuse, illicit opioid use and overdose
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The number of overdose deaths involving illicit opioids such as heroin and illicitly-manufactured fentanyl (IMF) is now higher than deaths involving prescription opioids. Adolescents misusing prescription opioids are more likely to use heroin.… read more