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Implementation of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) in Swaziland
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Swaziland adopted the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy in 2010 to strengthen Public Health Surveillance (PHS) that fulfills International Health Regulations (2005) and the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). This… read more -
Investigating Other Syndrome in ESSENCE from a Data Quality Perspective
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The Louisiana Office of Public Health (OPH) Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section (IDEpi) conducts syndromic surveillance of Emergency Department (ED) visits through the Louisiana Early Event Detection System (LEEDS) and submits the collected data… read more -
Niche Modeling of Dengue Fever Using Remotely Sensed Environmental Factors and BRT
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Dengue Fever (DF) is a vector-borne disease of the flavivirus family carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, and one of the leading causes of illness and death in tropical regions of the world. Nearly 400 million people become infected each year,… read more -
Comparing and Contrasting Two ESSENCE Syndrome Definition Query Methods
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The Kansas Syndromic Surveillance Program (KSSP) utilizes the ESSENCE v.1.20 program provided by the National Syndromic Surveillance Program to view and analyze Kansas Emergency Department (ED) data. Methods that allow an ESSENCE user to query both… read more -
Creation of a Technical Tool to Improve Syndromic Surveillance Onboarding in Tennessee
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Syndromic surveillance is commonly supported by information generated from electronic health record (EHR) systems and sent to public health via standardized messaging. Before public health can receive syndromic surveillance information from an EHR,… read more -
Assessing Definitions of Heroin Overdose in ED & EMS Data Using Hospital Billing 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 syndromic surveillance (SyS)… read more -
Developing and Validating a Fireworks-Related Syndrome Definition in Kansas
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Across the U.S.A., multiple people seek treatment for fireworks-related injuries around the July 4th holiday. Syndromic surveillance in Kansas allows for near real-time analysis of the injuries occurring during the firework selling season. During… read more -
Enhanced surveillance to monitor response to a provincial overdose emergency, Canada
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On April 14, 2016, British Columbia (BC)âs Provincial Health Officer declared a public health emergency due to a significant increase in drug-related overdoses and deaths in the Province. Despite the declaration, 161 suspected drug overdose deaths… read more