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  • Gonorrhea Encounters - Washington State Department of Health

    Content Type: Syndrome

    • Objective: To monitor clinical encounters for gonorrhea infection and disease
    • Syndromic surveillance system: ESSENCE
    • Data Sources: Emergency department visits, primary and urgent care visits 
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    … system: ESSENCE Data Sources: Emergency department visits, primary and urgent care visits  Fields used to query the data: Chief Complaint … system: ESSENCE Data Sources: Emergency department visits, primary and urgent care visits  Fields used to query the data: Chief Complaint …
  • Project Tycho, Data for Health: Open Access to Newly Digitized U.S. Weekly Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance Data from 1888-Present

    Content Type: Webinar

    Background: Public health agencies in the United States such as the Public Health Service before 1950 and the Centers for Disease Control after 1950 have published nationally notifiable disease reports for cities and states… read more
    … cities, 200 M keystrokes - 1030 users, 15,000 new site visits, ~400 data downloads 3. Opportunities for new data … - Digitization - Extraction - Standardization - Metadata Un-usable Ready for secondary use Pertussis: 1938-1954 …
  • ICD-9 CM Based Sub-Syndrome Distributions in BioSense Hospital Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Objective To examine sub-syndrome distributions among BioSense emergency department (ED) chief complaint and final diagnosis based data and to observe patterns by hospital system, age, and gender.
    … frequent ICD-9 CM based sub- syndromes. The proportion of visits contributing to the 20 most common ED chief complaint … S H ea da ch e H ea rt di se as e, V ira l i nf ec tio n, un sp ec ifi ed Sub-syndrome Vi si t c ou nt Unknown 0-3 …
  • Project Management and Design for Syndromic Surveillance Software

    Content Type: Abstract

    Management of software development projects involves a collection of well understood issues which are not often found in other project management areas. Identifying and managing these issues primarily requires that the manager is aware of the… read more
    … a useful project and one which reaches completion but is un- usable. Further Information: David Calvert, …
  • Identifying Clusters of Falls During the 2007-08 Winter Season in the BioSense System

    Content Type: Abstract

    The purposes of this study are to identify and characterize increases in emergency department (ED) visits for falls during the 2007-08 winter season.
    … and characterize increases in emergency department (ED) visits for falls during the 2007-08 winter season. Document … and characterize increases in emergency department (ED) visits for falls during the 2007-08 winter season. … United States [1] and accounted for 21% of injury-related visits to U.S. EDs in 2005 [2]. BioSense is a national …
  • Simulation of Correlated Outbreak Signals for Early Aberration Reporting

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Early Aberration Reporting System was developed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help assist local and state health officials to focus limited resources on appropriate activities of public health… read more
    … temporal data sources, such as emergency department visits, drug store sales, and ambulatory clinic visits. Based on this premise, we provided correlated data … and temporal data sources, such as emergency de- partment visits, drug store sales, and ambulatory clinic visits. …
  • Challenges in adapting an natural language processing system for real-time surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    We are developing a Bayesian surveillance system for realtime surveillance and characterization of outbreaks that incorporates a variety of data elements, including free-text clinical reports. An existing natural language processing (… read more
    … University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: wendy.w.chapman@gmail.com Objective Adapt an existing natural language …
  • Education as a mechanism to reduce spread of brucellosis among at-risk populations in Uzbekistan

    Content Type: Abstract

    One goal of the Biological Threat Reduction Program of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency is the enhancement of surveillance of especially dangerous pathogens of both humans and animals within countries of the former Soviet Union. One of the… read more
    … of study subjects will be done from non- brucella-related visits to primary care centers by at-risk patients with no … Reference 1. Akhmedova MD, Kasimov OS, Imomaliev UN, Khodiev AV, Nikolich MJ, Clarke DV, et al. Brucellosis … IL. Page 93, abstract #8P. *Adkhamjon Mamatkulov E-mail: amamatku@bechtel.com (page number not for citation …