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  • What is WEAVE, what can it do, and what is its future?

    Content Type: Webinar

    WEAVE is an interactive web-based analysis and visualization system. It links data (files, databases, sets, ...), multiple visualizations (maps, graphs, ...), and computational tools (statistics, data mining, modeling, simulation, ...). It was… read more
    … ! Attendance:! " #"People" ISDS"Sent"Announcement"via"E?mail" 2284" Opened"Announcement" 544"(25.8%)" Clicked"on"Announcement"Email"(percentage"based"on"#"of" opens)" 127"(23.3%)" …
  • 911 and EMS data for detection of drinking water contamination

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Public Health Surveillance (PHS) component (one of five monitoring and surveillance components deployed in the Cincinnati drinking water contamination warning system) functions to detect public health incidents resulting from… read more
    … and 3Emergint Technologies, Inc, Louisville, KY, USA E-mail: dangel.chrissy@epa.gov Objective This paper describes … For both 911 and EMS, once an alarm is generated, an email notification is sent to the local public health …
  • Rapid Identification of Pneumonias in BioSense Data Using Radiology Text Reports

    Content Type: Abstract

    BioSense currently receives demographic and chief complaint data from more than 360 hospitals and text radiology reports from 36 hospitals. Detection of pneumonia is an important as several Category A bioterrorism diseases as well as avian influenza… read more
    … reports of chest X-rays performed for 42,510 hospital visits (which corresponds to 34,883 patients) and the … such as BioSense. Contact: Armen Asatryan, MD, MPH E-mail: armen.asatryan@saic.com Advances in Disease …
  • Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) update: present and future

    Content Type: Abstract

    Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, EARS Program, MS C-18, Atlanta, GA, USA) is a freeware surveillance tool that can be downloaded from the Center for Disease Control and… read more
    … Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA E-mail: buu8@cdc.gov Objective The objective of this poster is … baseline/comparison period, an adjustment for total visits (or other denominator), and an option for stratifying …
  • Use of emergency department data for case finding following a community anthrax exposure

    Content Type: Abstract

    On 24 December 2009, a female New Hampshire resident was confirmed to have gastrointestinal anthrax on the basis of clinical findings and laboratory testing. Her source of anthrax was not immediately known, so the New Hampshire… read more
    … 2Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA E-mail: dswenson@dhhs.state.nh.us Objective This paper … down a pool of nearly 2,00,000 emergency department visits to 62 possible cases requiring further investigation, …
  • Using injury surveillance to assess sport and recreation-related heat illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    Although heat illness is preventable, it is a leading cause of death among U.S. high school and college athletes (1). Despite this, the total burden of heat illness during sports and recreation is unknown. With over 250 million U.S. residents… read more
    … 5946 (95% confidence interval [CI]�4194�7698) ED visits for sports- and recreation-related heat illnesses … Accessed August 13, 2010. *Ellen Yard E-mail: eyard@cdc.gov (page number not for citation purpose) … U.S. hospital EDs Entire U.S. population Nonfatal ED visits with a reference to heat illness (e.g., ‘‘heat …
  • Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza

    Content Type: Abstract

    We report here on the use of the North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition of influenza for the purpose of influenza surveillance.
    … with a goal of increasing sensitivity. METHODS Patient visits from the 2003-2004 influenza season (9/28/03-3/27/04) … Ghneim, G., Sickbert-Bennett, E., Waller, A., Ising, A. & Mail- lard, J. North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging …
  • Detection of multiple overlapping anomalous clusters in categorical data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance typically involves collecting time-stamped transactional data, such as patient triage or examination records or pharmacy sales. Such records usually span multiple categorical features, such as location, age… read more
    … Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: sabhnani@cs.cmu.edu Objective We present Disjunctive … Weekly Epidemiological Reports3. The data stores patient visits spanning 26 regions and 9 diseases reported over 2.5 …