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  • Community-based Health Systems Strengthening: Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Mobile Health Intervention in Nepal

    Content Type: Webinar

    Globally, over seven million children under the age of five die each year. A suite of interventions, including safe delivery care, neonatal care and resuscitation, and management of childhood diarrhea, malnutrition, and pneumonia, can prevent many… read more
    … 1%   14%   4%   3%   0.29%   74%   26%   Overall Patient Visits by Type - Mangsir 2069 New Antenatal Visits Health Post Deliveries Postnatal Visits Family Planning Visits Neonatal Outpatient Visits …
  • Bio-Surveillance and Enhanced Situational Awareness

    Content Type: Abstract

      Syndromic surveillance has been used to detect variation in seasonal viral illnesses such as influenza and norovirus infection (1). Limited information is available on the use of a comprehensive bio-surveillance system, including syndromic… read more
    … all age groups. Between 12/1/2006 and 4/1/2007, GI_4 visits averaged 94 a day (7.3% of all visits), compared to 75 visits a day (5.9% of all visits) during the same period the …
  • Identifying a Meningitis Case through Syndromic Surveillance: An Example of Detecting Events of Public Health Importance and Improving Situational Awareness

    Content Type: Abstract

    The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and its ability to use hospital emergency room data for situational awareness.
    … analyzes multiple traditional (such as emergency room visits, private provider visits) and non-traditional (such as over-the- counter drug … for the Mary- land region: ESSENCE data revealed 18 coded visits associated with neurological disease compared to …
  • Enterovirus D68 Outbreak SyS Discussion

    Content Type: Webinar

    ISDS Conference Call to discuss surveillance for severe respiratory illness / Enterovirus D68. This call will be an opportunity for syndromic surveillance practitioners to share their experiences conducting their contribution to surveillance for… read more
    … increases in respiratory illness and asthma-related ED visits. While this increase is typical in September every … Figure  1:  Michigan  Daily  Respiratory  Syndrome  Visits  (Source:  Fatema  Mamou)   Figure  2:  Michigan …
  • A Comparison of Locally Developed Influenza-like Syndrome Definitions Using Electronic Emergency Department Data in Boston and New York City

    Content Type: Abstract

    To compare locally-developed influenza-like syndrome definitions (derived from emergency department (ED) chief complaints) when applied to data from two ISDS DiSTRIBuTE Project participants: Boston and New York City (NYC) [1].
    … daily from 10 of 10 EDs in the city of Boston (avg daily visits ~ 1300). The NYCDOHMH collects data daily from 50 of 61 (82%) EDs in NYC representing 94% of all ED visits (avg daily visits ~ 10,000). Each department uses both a broad (more …
  • Late Season Influenza-like Illness in Georgia: Prospective Detection of an Illness Cluster Using Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes a cluster of influenza-like illness (ILI) prospectively identified through emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance (SS).
    … using the Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) [4]. E-mail alerts are generated by SendSS and distributed to all … District Epidemiol- ogist received a SendSS-generated e-mail alert indicating C1, C2, and C3 flags had been … in SendSS from WCHD hospitals. In response to the e- mail alert, the District Epidemiologist e-mailed the ICP at …
  • Radiographic Surveillance in Children: A System for Monitoring Epidemics Associated with Prominent Respiratory Symptoms

    Content Type: Abstract

    Yearly epidemics of respiratory diseases occur in children. Early recognition of these and of unexpected epidemics due to new agents or as acts of biological/chemical terrorism is desirable. In this study, we evaluate the ordering of chest… read more
    … ARIMA time series models that provided forecasts of daily visits and chest radiographs were specified. Disease … of competing models. RESULTS There were an average of 129 visits and 21 chest radiographs per day for 3,962 days … ARMA (2,1) model of daily chest radiographs with daily visits as a covariate. This model for the degree of …
  • Dual Monitoring of ILI Syndrome Using the ESSENCE System

    Content Type: Abstract

    The threat of terrorism and high-profile disease outbreaks has drawn attention to public health syndromic surveillance systems for early detection of natural or man-made disease events. In this sense, the Miami-Dade County Health… read more
    … the system generates the weekly percentage of ILI visits which is compared with a county baseline and … if it is necessary. Figure 1 – Daily plot of ILI ER visits in Miami-Dade County. Week 16, 2006 The second part … consists of a weekly comparison of percentage of ILI ER visits to ILI baseline and threshold lines for the …