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EMS Heroin Overdoses with Refusal to Transport & Impacts on ED Overdose Surveillance
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As a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) funded state, Kentucky started utilizing Emergency Medical Services (EMS) data to increase timeliness of state data on drug overdose events in late… read more -
Enhanced Surveillance of Nonfatal Emergency Department Opioid Overdoses in California
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The opioid epidemic is a multifaceted public health issue that requires a coordinated and dynamic response to address the ongoing changes in the trends of opioid overdoses. Access to timely and accurate data allows more targeted and effective… read more -
Enhancing Drug Overdose Alerts with Spatial Visualization
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Since 2008, drug overdose deaths exceeded the number of motor vehicle traffic-related deaths in Indiana, and the gap continues to widen1. While federal funding opportunities are available for states, it often takes years for best practices to be… read more -
Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance at a Local Public Health Department
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The mission of the Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH; Arizona) is to protect and promote the health and well-being of its residents and visitors. Surveillance efforts allow epidemiologists to quantify and characterize public health… read more -
Enhancing Provider Reporting of Notifiable Diseases using HIE-enabled Decision Support
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Traditionally, public health agencies (PHAs) wait for hospital, laboratory or clinic staff to initiate case reports. However, this passive approach is burdensome for reporters and produces incomplete and delayed reports, which can hinder assessment… read more -
Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance with Procedure Data: A 2017-8 Influenza Case Study
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Syndromic surveillance achieves timeliness by collecting prediagnostic data, such as emergency department chief complaints, from the start of healthcare interactions. The tradeoff is less precision than from diagnosis data, which takes longer to… read more -
Enhancing TX SyS by integrating EMS and Poison Data for Opioid Overdose Surveillance
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In recent years, the number of deaths from illicit and prescription opioids has increased significantly resulting in a national and local public health crisis. According to the Texas Center for Health Statistics, there were 1340 opioid related… read more -
Assessment of a Surveillance Case Definition for Heroin Overdose in Emergency Medical Services Data
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In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded 12 states, under the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) program, to utilize state Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance (… read more