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Identification of Clinical Indicators of Opioid Overdose using innovative EMS software analytics.
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In North America we experience the highest rate of drug related mortality in the world. In the US, overdose is now the leading cause of death among adults under 50. Each day more than 115 people in the United States die due to an opioid overdose.… read more -
Identifying Children with Special Health Care Needs in Alexandria, Egypt
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Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) are defined as: âÂÂthose who have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioural, or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type or… read more -
Identifying Emergency Department Care in the Year Prior to Suicide Death
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Suicide is a leading cause of mortality in the United States, causing about 45,000 deaths annually. Research suggests that universal screening in health care settings may be beneficial for prevention, but few studies have combined detailed suicide… read more -
Identifying High-Risk Areas for Dengue Infection Using Mobility Patterns on Twitter
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Traditionally, surveillance systems for dengue and other infectious diseases locate each individual case by home address, aggregate these locations to small areas, and monitor the number of cases in each area over time. However, human mobility plays… read more -
Identifying Persons Who Inject Drugs in Medical Examiner Data in Maricopa County, AZ
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The rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States has increased steadily since 2000. Injection drug use, a practice associated with infectious disease transmission, has likely increased along with this upward trend in drug overdoses. Injection… read more -
Impact of a new diagnoses thesaurus on the French ED syndromic surveillance system
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As part of the French syndromic surveillance system SurSaUDî, the French Public Health Agency (Sant© publique France) collects daily data from the emergency department (ED) network OSCOUR®. The system aims to timely identify, follow and assess the… read more -
Implementation of an Electronic Disease Surveillance System in Guinea, 2016-2018
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The West Africa Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016 demonstrated the importance of strong disease surveillance systems and the severe consequences of weak capacity to detect and respond to cases quickly. Challenges in the transmission and management of… read more -
Improved Identification and Assessment of Heat-Related Illnesses in Pinal County, AZ
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Extreme heat and related illnesses are a critical concern in Arizona from May to September each year. From 2008 to 2016, Arizona medical facilities had an average of 1,790 emergency visits and 442 hospital admissions for heat-related illnesses (HRI… read more