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Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot
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The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more… Distribute project ILI syndrome standardization pilot. Document … ILI-s concepts and coding as closely as possible, and to document and share local ILI-narrow and ILI-broad code … -
Public health surveillance after the Haiti earthquake: the Florida experience
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On 12 January 2010 at 1652 hours local time, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and created enormous devastation. Florida, as the state closest to Haiti, became an initial focal point… read more… during or after the earthquake, and evacuated to Florida. Document … was made to county health department (CHD) staff to document cases of reportable diseases in the state web-based … -
Real-time surveillance of influenza/pneumonia deaths: new strategies using grid computing and natural language processing
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Surveillance of deaths due to influenza and pneumonia using death records has the potential to be a relatively inexpensive and quick approach to tracking and detecting influenza and respiratory illness outbreaks; however, presently such a system… read more… system, and expand the number of reporting cities. Document … for Disease Control and Prevention. Death Certificate (document on the Internet). Center for Disease Control and … -
Identifying water contamination from syndromic surveillance signals
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The EPA Water Security initiative contamination warning system detection strategy involves the use of multiple monitoring and surveillance components for timely detection of drinking water contamination in the distribution system… read more… Reference 1 US EPA. Water Security Initiative: Interim Guidance on Developing an Operational Strategy for … -
Identifying water contamination from syndromic surveillance signals
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The EPA Water Security initiative contamination warning system (CWS) detection strategy involves the use of multiple monitoring and surveillance components for timely detection of drinking water contamination in the distribution system. The… read more… Reference 1 US EPA. Water Security Initiative: Interim Guidance on Developing an Operational Strategy for … -
Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 4
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A Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop was held in Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 4 on May 12-13, 2015 at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, GA. This was the seventh workshop in a… read more… in identifying their learning needs and methods with guidance by a facilitator. Using a limited emergency … condition of interest. Participants then identify and document their perceived benefits and barriers to SyS data … -
Evaluating Syndrome Definitions in the Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology
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The Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology (ESSO) is an open source terminological ontology designed to facilitate the text mining of clinical reports in English [1,2]. At the core of ESSO are 279 clinical concepts (for example, fever, confusion,… read more… encoded in the Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology. Document … Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Health Document Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI 2011); … -
Syndromic Surveillance of Non-traumatic Dental Conditions in Idaho Core Areas
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Access to dental care is a public health problem in Idaho because most of the state is experiencing a shortage of dental health professionals. The Idaho Oral Health program has anecdotal evidence that some Idahoans compensate for this shortage by… read more… dental care visits. The initial query was adapted from guidance developed by the Association of State and … dental care visits. The initial query was adapted from guidance developed by the Association of State and …