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  • Acute Flaccid Myelitis – Surveillance updates and CDC activities, 2018

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented December 20, 2018. The presentation will provide a summary of the epidemiology of AFM during the increase in cases in 2018 and updates on CDC’s AFM activities. Presenters Adriana Lopez, MHS,… read more
    … Department of Health and Environment (Sourced from NCIRD guidance) … significantly § Multiple age cutoffs were tried. NCIRD guidance suggests 18 years as the best cutoff. CCDD Category …
  • Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides were presented at the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview Partner meeting, led by CDC and organized by ASTHO in March of 2019.  Presenters Puja Seth, PhD – Lead, Epidemiology… read more
    … for large variance in text entries and coding ▪ National guidance – National definition will provide a good starting place – Guidance to encourage common conceptual definition (e.g., no …
  • Emergency Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) for Public Health in Canada

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … Canadian syndromic surveillance systems of the future. Document … interface. A technical overview paper has been written to document the extensive alterations that have been included …
  • Finding medically unexplained symptoms within VA clinical documents using v3NLP

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … currently in development to find duration assertions. Document … the parts of speech and words around medical concepts, document type and section headings. For this Pro-WATCH task, …
  • Multi-Tier Role Based Access for Secure and Flexible Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    NC DETECT receives data on at least a daily basis from five data sources: emergency departments (ED), the statewide poison center (CPC), the statewide EMS data collection system, a regional wildlife center and laboratories from the NC State College… read more
    … event detection and timely public health surveillance. Document … in the new system allowing authorized users to document signals and keep track of signal investigations. …
  • Dengue hemorrhagic fever One Health Surveillance approach effectiveness in Saudi Arabia

    Content Type: Case Study

    Dengue hemorraghic fever (DHF) is affecting more than 50 million people globally and still remains a persistent public health challenge in Saudi Arabia [1]. Althougth there has been available financial resource, limitations and deficiencies in… read more
    … community partnerships is vital in providing technical guidance and expertise - Need for evidence-based knowledge …
  • Using clinician mental models to guide annotation of medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes found in VA clinical documents

    Content Type: Abstract

    Medically unexplained syndromes (MUS) are conditions that are diagnosed on the basis of symptom constellations and are characterized by a lack of well-defined pathogenic pathways. The three most common MUS are chronic fatigue … read more
    … Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans. Document … to 3314, with an average of 17 symptom annotations per document. The number of annotations (unique mentions) for …
  • Description of the quality of public health case reports received at a local health department and potential impact on workflow

    Content Type: Abstract

    When a reportable condition is identified, clinicians and laboratories are required to report the case to public health authorities. These case reports help public health officials to make informed decisions and implement appropriate… read more
    … at Salt Lake Valley health department in 2009 and 2010. Document … the health department, we used a data collection form to document whether certain core data elements such as ‘patient …