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Surveillance for Opioid Overdose in the Veterans Health Administration, 2004-2014
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Drug poisoning, or overdose, is an epidemic problem in the United States1,2. In keeping with national trends, a recent study combining U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) data with the National Death Index showed increases in opioid overdose… read more -
Surveillance of Cardio Vascular Risk Factors Among Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
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According to world health organization report 2011, coronary artery diseases are the number one cause of death globally: more people die annually from coronary artery diseases than from any other cause. An estimated 17.3 million people died from… read more -
Surveillance of Surveillance: Inventorying Gaps and Commonalities Across the Universe of Surveillance Systems
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Health surveillance systems provide important functionalities to detect, monitor, respond, prevent, and report on a variety of conditions across multiple owners. They offer important capabilities, with some of the most fundamental including data… read more -
Assessing Risk for Emerging Arboviral Disease Use Case
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Materials associated with the Analytic Solutions for Real-Time Biosurveillance: Assessing Risk for Emerging Arboviral Disease consultancy held June 14-15, 2016 at the Arizona Department of Health Services. Problem Summary… read more -
Surveillance on Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in East Asia
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Regional disease surveillance as well as data transparency and sharing are the global trend for mitigating the threat of infectious diseases. The WHO has already played a leading role in FluNet (http:// www.who.int/influenza/gisrs_laboratory/flunet/… read more -
Surveillance System Evaluations Provide Evidence to Improve Public Health Practice
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A simplified syndromic surveillance system, based on early detection and reporting of four core syndromes and immediate reporting of unusual events, was established across PICTs in 2010. An early evaluation of the system was undertaken to make… read more -
Surveillance to Manage Disease on Canadian Swine Farms
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On a day to day basis, farmers and their veterinarians deal with many diseases without the benefit of surveillance for early outbreak detection, or coordinated outbreak responses. Without this support, highly contagious pathogens such as Porcine… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance of Motor Vehicle Crash Related Injuries In Nebraska
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Motor vehicle crashes (MVC) are a significant public health problem in Nebraska. These events cost Nebraska $1.6 billion a year, are the leading cause of injury death, and the fourth leading cause of injury hospital treatment in the state. Speeding… read more