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West Virginia BioSense Training
Content Type: Training
Marcus Rennick, Epidemiologist with the Marion County Public Health Department (WV), provides an overview/training on the BioSense System. Time Overview: (45 minutes) Syndromic Surveillance and BioSense Overview (90 minutes) Hands… read more -
SaTScan Tutorial
Content Type: Webinar
SaTScan software is used widely in outbreak detection. It's free, flexible, and fast. However, it is somewhat cumbersome, in that access is primarily through a GUI. While this is probably best for occasional use, it does not lend… read more -
Using Syndromic Surveillance Data to Monitor Endocarditis and Sepsis among Drug Users
Content Type: Abstract
Recreational drug use is a major problem in the United States and around the world. Specifically, drug abuse results in heavy use of emergency department (ED) services, and is a high financial burden to society and to the hospitals due to chronic… read more -
Discover the 2015 ISDS Conference
Content Type: Webinar
This video provides useful information about the 2015 ISDS Conference and Abstract Submission Process. -
A general overview of the French syndromic surveillance system SurSaUD
Content Type: Webinar
Presented May 16, 2019. After the major impact of the 2003 heat wave, France needed a reactive, permanent and national surveillance system enabling to detect and to follow-up various public health events all over the territory including overseas… read more -
911 and EMS data for detection of drinking water contamination
Content Type: Abstract
The Public Health Surveillance (PHS) component (one of five monitoring and surveillance components deployed in the Cincinnati drinking water contamination warning system) functions to detect public health incidents resulting from… read more -
A bootstrapping method to improve cohort identification
Content Type: Abstract
The research reported in this paper is part of a larger effort to achieve better signal-to-noise ratio, hence accuracy, in pharmacovigilance applications. The relatively low frequency of occurrence of adverse drug reactions leads to… read more -
A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival
Content Type: Abstract
One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more