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Establishing a Federal and State Data Exchange Pilot for Public Health Situational Awareness
Content Type: Abstract
ASPR deploys clinical assets, including an EMR system, to the ground per state requests during planned and no-notice events. The analysis of patient data collected by deployed federal personnel is an integral part of ASPR and FDOH’s surveillance… read more -
Overview of Syndromic Surveillance: What is Syndromic Surveillance?
Content Type: Journal Article
Innovative electronic surveillance systems are being developed to improve early detection of outbreaks attributable to biologic terrorism or other causes. A review of the rationale, goals, definitions, and realistic expectations for these… read more -
2003 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference Abstracts
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Preface Effective public health surveillance is essential for detecting and responding to emerging public health threats, including terrorism and emerging infectious diseases. New surveillance methods are being developed and tested to improve the… read more -
State Opioid Overdose Surveillance Dashboards
Content Type: Surveillance Tools and Systems
Below are the publicly available opioid overdose surveillance dashboards by U.S. state or territory. This list is updated as of March 7, 2019. … read more -
Using real-time syndromic surveillance to monitor the health effects of air pollution
Content Type: Abstract
The negative effect of air pollution on human health is well documented illustrating increased risk of respiratory, cardiac and other health conditions. Currently, during air pollution episodes Public Health England (PHE) syndromic surveillance… read more -
Assessment of the use of ED Chief Complaint Data for monitoring Chronic Diseases
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Syndromic Surveillance (SS), traditionally applied to infectious diseases, is more recently being adapted to chronic disease prevention. Its usefulness rests on the large number of diverse individuals visiting emergency rooms with the possibility of… read more -
Impact of the NSSP’s transition to ESSENCE on chief complaint field-based syndromes
Content Type: Abstract
In January 2017, the NSSP transitioned their BioSense analytical tools to Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The chief complaint field in BioSense 2.0 was a concatenation of the record's… read more -
Risk of Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in Relation to Temperature
Content Type: Abstract
Extreme temperatures are consistently shown to have an effect on CVD-related mortality [1, 2]. A large multi-city study of mortality demonstrated a cold-day and hot-day weather effect on CVD-related deaths, with the larger impact occurring on the… read more