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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 -
Leveraging the NSSP R Studio Server to Automate QA Monitoring and Reporting
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In 2016, the CDC funded 12 states, under the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) program, to utilize SyS to increase timeliness of state data on drug overdose events. In order to operationalize the objectives of the grant, there was… read more -
Evaluation of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) using Bacillary Dysentery as a Priority Disease, Tanzania, 2012
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Each year Ministry of Health and Social welfare of Tanzania under Epidemiology Section has been reporting many suspected cases of Shigella throughout the country. However only fewer laboratories have been reporting the confirmed cases. … read more -
Evaluation of the Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid Induced Liver Disease (PAILD) Active Surveillance System in Tigray, Ethiopia
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A liver disease of unknown etiology, called unknown liver disease (ULD) by the community, was first identified in 2002 in Tigray; a rugged, semi-arid, mountainous region that is considered one of the most drought-prone and food insecure regions of… read more -
Fast Multidimensional Subset Scan for Outbreak Detection and Characterization
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The multivariate linear-time subset scan (MLTSS) extends previous spatial and subset scanning methods to achieve timely and accurate event detection in massive multivariate datasets, efficiently optimizing a likelihood ratio statistic over… read more