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  • AZ BioSense Onboarding Presentation

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides detail the process of onboarding syndromic surveillance data into BioSense for the state of Arizona.
    … Test  message  types  are  as  follows:  A01  =    Admit/Visit;  A03  =  Discharge/End  Visit;  A04  =  Registra*on;  A08  =  Update  Pa*ent …  ED  and  Inpa*ent   •  message  type   •  complete  visits  only  (A01  or  A04    AND  A03)   Health and …
  • Kansas Uses Syndromic Surveillance Data to Educate the Public and Providers about Rabies

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Rabies is caused by a virus spread to people from the saliva and neural tissue of infected animals. The most common mode of transmission is through the bite of a rabid animal; however, rabies can be transmitted through non-bite exposures (e.g.,… read more
    … For example, if a person is exposed to a bat and visits the emergency department (ED) for rabies PEP—but the … For example, if a person is exposed to a bat and visits the emergency department (ED) for rabies PEP—but the … For example, if a person is exposed to a bat and visits the emergency department (ED) for rabies PEP—but the …
  • Evaluation of the Rhode Island Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RI RODS) System: Disparate Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Rhode Island implemented the Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) system, developed in 1999 by the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Biomedical Informatics. This system is based on real-time information from… read more
    … the CDCWG work as the gold standard. METHODS 60,715 ED visits were reported to RI RODS in May – August 2006. Each visit was assigned to a CDCWG syndrome based on first-listed … 25.0% for botulism-like to 74.6% for respiratory. Of ED visits with an ICD-9-CM di- agnosis identified by CDCWG, …
  • Rapid ad-hoc cross-jurisdictional sharing of syndrome data using Distribute technology

    Content Type: Abstract

    Cross-jurisdictional sharing of public health syndrome data is useful for many reasons, among them to provide a larger regional or national view of activity and to determine if unusual activity observed in one jurisdiction is atypical. Considerable… read more
    … of recent interest: alcohol related and heat related ED visits. Objective To demonstrate how rapid adhoc sharing of … of recent interest: alcohol-related and heat-related ED visits. Methods The Distribute system was initially designed … for ad hoc data sharing: alcohol intoxication- related visits and heat exposure-related ED visits. While built …
  • Technical Challenges from the Public Health Practice Community to Statisticians and Analysts

    Content Type: Webinar

    On May 28th, 2009, the ISDS Research and Public Health Practice Committees hosted a joint panel with the goal of bringing current challenges faced by public health practitioners to the attention of the research community at large. Members of both… read more
    … Up-to-date rates n  Decreased emergency room visits for asthma How Might We Use A Decision Support System … –  Poison Control Calls –  Health Centers – Urgent Care Visit Volume –  Sentinel sites (as needed) Notifiable …
  • Syndromic Prediction Power: Comparing Covariates and Baselines

    Content Type: Abstract

    The eleven syndrome classifications for clinical data records monitored by BioSense include rare events such as death or lymphadenitis and also common occurrences such as respiratory infections. BioSense currently uses two statistical methods for… read more
    … models: day-of-week, holiday, total daily health facility visits, and a trend variable (date). Models using different … data for this paper consisted of daily military clinical visit count data from the Department of Defense (DoD) for … of 28, 56, and 112 days were used to make one-day-ahead visit count predictions. For each forecast, the baseline …
  • Data Flow: Data Element Requirements

    Content Type: Surveillance Tools and Systems

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) conducted a three-part webinar series in 2016 to describe how… read more
    … The following table describes the Segments in an Admit/Visit Notification message. ArchiveRaw HL7 Archive Raw Name … Yes 25 conditional input Chief Complaint/ Reason for Visit Patient's self-reported chief complaint or reason for …
  • How good is your data?

    Content Type: Abstract

    Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health… read more
    … provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … vides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. …