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Securing protected health information in NC DETECT
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NC DETECT receives daily data files from emergency departments (ED), the statewide EMS data collection system, the statewide poison center, and veterinary laboratory test results. Included in these data are elements, which may contain Protected… read more… patient data during both integration and reporting. Document … functionality which allows authorized users to document signals and keep track of signal investigations. … -
Minimizing False Alarms in Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes a method of avoiding false alerts in automated syndromic surveillance algorithms which monitor the temporal relationship between a particular monitored syndrome (the ìtargetî) in relationship to other reference healthcare data… read more… reference healthcare data streams (the ìcontextî). Document … surveillance up to now, will be applied to gain practical guidance toward this goal. REFERENCES [1] Burkom H, Alerting … -
Multi-Sectored Approach to Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System
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In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more… areas: process and outcome, cost/benefit and technical. Document … by the Public Health Agency of Canada [1] with additional guidance pro- vided by the Centers for Disease Control and … -
North Texas School Health Surveillance: First-Year Progress and Next Steps
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Recognizing the threat of pandemic influenza and new or emerging disease such as SARS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that schools work in partnership with their local health departments “to develop a surveillance… read more… diseases often emerge first and spread rapidly.2 Document … report that is the basis for this presentation5 follows guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … -
Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition
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In North Carolina, select hospital emergency departments have been submitting data since 2003 for use in syndromic surveillance. These data are collected, stored, and parsed into syndrome categories by the North Carolina… read more… its ability to capture the appropriate syndromic cases. Document … derived case definition terms from the consensus document text description of smallpox and modified these … -
Identifying Syndromic Fingerprints in Reason Fields in Emergency Department or Telehealth Records using N-grams for Similarity Analysis
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An N-gram is a sub-sequence of n items from a given sequence where n can be 1, 2,…, n and the items can be letters or words. N-gram models are widely used in statistical natural language processing [3]. In the syndromic surveillance context, N-grams… read more… that these fingerprints are valuable for classification. Document … Text categori- sation”, Proceedings of Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, Las Vegas, NV. … -
Limb Elephantiasis as Predictor for the Occurrence and Spread of Lymphatic Filariasis in Kano State, Nigeria
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Lymphatic filariasis is one of the most prevalent of the tropical diseases, but is also the most neglected.Though significant advances have been made in the understanding both the disease and its control, there is general lack of information about… read more… use of the results for further epidemiological studies. Document … for Rapid Mapping of Bancroftian Filariasis in Africa. Document WGO/CDS/CPE/CEE/2000.9. Geneva: WHO. Advances in … -
2018 NSSP CoP Member Satisfaction Assessment Results
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The intent of the National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP) is to support open and dynamic participation of any… read more… call information, webinars, and work on collaborative documents) and to connect with other NSSP Community of … The NSSP CoP Steering Committee provided instrumental guidance throughout all stages of the project. This included … practice. The CDC may also use this information to inform guidance and technical assistance activities in support of …