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  • Recommendations for Surveillance of EMS Data for Opioid Overdoses

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented March 21, 2019. FirstWatch Recommendations for Surveillance of EMS Data for Opioid Overdoses: https://www.firstwatch.net/finding-opioid-data/ Following up on the poster presentation at ISDS 2019, Silvia R. Verdugo, MD, MPH, Mike… read more
  • Language Barriers - CDC

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome is a work-in-progress and was created to experiment with Chief Complaint text indicating a language barrier between medical professionals and patient and/or an interpreter is needed to provide medical care. This was… read more
  • Homelessness - Washington State Department of Health

    Content Type: Syndrome

    The following syndrome was developed to explore emergency department visit records involving people experiencing homelessness. Trends over time, patient demographics, geographic distribution, and primary reasons for seeking care were explored.… read more
  • Drowning and Submersion - CDC

    Content Type: Syndrome

    A step-wise article on developing this syndrome definition can be found in the April 2019 NSSP Update https://www.cdc.gov/nssp/news.html This syndrome is an initial attempt at an improved Drowning and Submersion query in NSSP ESSENCE. It was… read more
  • Monitoring the Transfer of Patients with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from Tribal Lands to Facilities in Maricopa County, Arizona

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF), a bacterial tick-borne rickettsial illness, initially causes nonspecific symptoms (e.g., fever, rash, nausea, and vomiting).  In 2003, RMSF was identified on tribal lands in Arizona where the brown dog tick… read more
  • Sexual Violence v2 - CDC

    Content Type: Syndrome

    The query was updated and developed in collaboration with NSSP & CDC Division of Violence Prevention for a version 2 of the Sexual Violence syndrome. The syndrome is intended for rape prevention coordinators for their surveillance work at… read more
  • Intimate Partner Violence v1 - CDC

    Content Type: Syndrome

    The query was developed by NSSP and CDC Division of Violence Prevention. It was developed to assist rape prevention coordinators and project officers in doing sexual violence and intimate partner violence surveillance using syndromic surveillance.… read more
  • An Examination of Syndromic Surveillance for Early Detection of Nosocomial Outbreaks

    Content Type: Abstract

    Objective So as to be able to detect nosocomial outbreaks at an early stage, we examine the construction of a syndromic surveillance system for inpatients who have fever, respiratory symptoms, diarrhea, vomiting or rash and… read more