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Comparing Syndromic Surveillances using Two Aspects: Emergency and Telehealth Data Sources
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The objective of this paper is to examine the utility of Emergency Department and Telehealth data for Syndromic Surveillance. This works attempts to minimize false outbreak detection. It also demonstrates that these two data sources contain… read more… algorithms use the historical data of the outbreaks as a training set to build a model of this data. A sliding window of several days is used with the sequence data to train the neural networks (NN). Emergency Department (ED) … Two types of outbreak patterns were injected into the training set at a rate of one outbreak per year. These … -
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) & Ebola
Content Type: Webinar
The 2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa and beyond. EMS providers have to be prepared to treat or transport suspected or known Ebola patients. Join FirstWatch President and long-time advocate… read more… – Heavy tourism due to Disney World • Provider training /retraining to capture travel informaEon … – MERS-‐CoV – Ebola • Leverage systems and training to get up to speed quickly for … -
Hybrid Probabilistic Modeling and Automated Data Fusion for Biosurveillance Applications
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The increased threat of bioterrorism and naturally occurring diseases, such as pandemic influenza, continually forces public health authorities to review methods for evaluating data and reports. The objective of bio-surveillance is to automatically… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) system. These data include records of classified … information is potentially available to the user via the ESSENCE interface or sources available via the internet. Our … -
Improving Rabies Surveillance Using Syndromic Data
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In order to assess the use of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis in Indiana, the Communicable Disease Reporting Rule, adopted October 11, 2000, requires the reporting of rabies PEP administration. Indiana is a “home rule” state; that is to say, local… read more… METHODS Initially, the veterinary epidemiologist used the ESSENCE query feature to search for rabies related patient … chief complaint after it has been processed by the ESSENCE chief complaint parser. (CCP like '%BAT%' and CCP … -
CDC Heroin v3
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THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC HEROIN OVERDOSE V4 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE. States… read more… dope Exclusions Chief complaint Exclude See list below in ESSENCE code Table 2. ESSENCE query for suspected heroin overdose (,^[;/ … -
Finding medically unexplained symptoms within VA clinical documents using v3NLP
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Pro-WATCH (protecting war fighters using algorithms for text processing to capture health events), a syndromic surveillance project for veterans of operation enduring freedom (OEF)/operation Iraqi freedom (OIF), includes a task to identify medically… read more… machine learning model, trained using annotations from a training corpus currently under devel- opment. A statistical … duration component of the symptom identifica- tion. The training corpus is expected to have duration assertions. The … -
Automated Detection of GI Syndrome using Structured and Non-Structured Data from the VA EMR
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Objective We performed a gold-standard manual chart review for gastro-intestinal syndrome to evaluate automated detection models based on both structured and non-structured data extracted from the VA … read more… models included “GI” ICD-9 code sets used in the “ESSENCE” and the “BioSense” syndromic surveillance systems. … on the index visit day of fever > 37.8ºC. RESULTS The ESSENCE and BioSense ICD-9 code sets detected 242 GI … -
Substance Abuse Among Youth in Miami-Dade County, 2005-2007
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The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 9th to 12th graders in Miami-Dade County public schools found that 69.7% of students tried alcohol, 28.3% tried marijuana, and 6.3% tried cocaine in their lifetime. Results also showed that… read more… for Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) 2) Miami-Dade Fire Rescue 911 Call Center 3) Agency … arrests SAS 9.1.3 was utilized for analysis RESULTS ESSENCE In 2006, there were 431 ED visits for substance …