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Using Syndromic Surveillance Alert Protocols for Epidemiologic Response in Georgia
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DPH uses its State Electronic Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (SendSS) Syndromic Surveillance (SS) Module to collect, analyze and display results of emergency department patient chief complaint data from hospitals throughout Georgia.… read more -
Using Syndromic Surveillance Data to Monitor Endocarditis and Sepsis among Drug Users
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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 -
Utility of Natural Language Processing for Clinical Quality Measures Reporting
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Clinical quality measures (CQMs) are tools that help measure and track the quality of health care services. Measuring and reporting CQMs helps to ensure that our health care system is delivering effective, safe, efficient, patient-centered,… read more -
Civilian-military Collaboration: Department of Defense data in the BioSense Platform
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The DoD provides daily outpatient and emergency room data feeds to the BioSense Platform within NSSP, maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This data includes demographic characteristics and diagnosis codes for health… read more -
Collecting Infectious Disease Data from LARS and Improving Data Quality in Taiwan
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To immediately monitor disease outbreaks, the application of laboratory-based surveillance is more popular in recent years. Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (TCDC) has developed LARS to collect the laboratory-confirmed cases caused by any of 20… read more -
Comparing Emergency Department Gunshot Wound Data with Mass Casualty Shooting Reports
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Shootings with multiple victims are a concern for public safety and public health. The precise impact of such events and the trends associated with them is dependent on which events are counted. Some reports only consider events with multiple deaths… read more -
Comparative Analysis of Methods of Molecular Detection of Avian Influenza Virus
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As part of this surveillance study for Avian Influenza both active and passive surveillance samples were tested using PCR and also utilized to validate the LAMP method. Active surveillance samples include pathological material and tracheal and… read more -
Surveillance of Influenza A/California/H1N1 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
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Ukraine’s ability to respond to the spread of viruses that cause pandemics and reduce economic losses from influenza, can be strengthened only in the presence of a developed surveillance network including the monitoring of virus circulation in… read more