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  • Cold-Related Illness - CSTE

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Cold-Related Illness Query: Guidance for Implementing Cold-Related Illness Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice In winter, people are at risk… read more
    … and denotations of a frostbite history when the current visit is not frostbite related. For example, a record may … These exclusions affect a relatively small number of visits. For example, in one particularly cold month, there were 112 visits reported with the exclusions and 116 without; a …
  • BioSense 2.0 Webinar: The Kansas Experience, Health Information Exchanges, and Onboarding

    Content Type: Webinar

    Public health jurisdictions participating in BioSense 2.0 can be on-boarded in several ways, including one hospital at a time or through a health information exchange (HIE). Onboarding through an HIE can simplify the process and ease the burden on… read more
    …  March  26,  2014  –  12:00  PM  –  1:30  PM  EDT   Visit  www.syndromic.org  for  more  information  on …   For  more  information  about  BioSense  2.0,  please  visit  the  BioSense   Redesign  Collaboration  Web  Site …
  • Clostridium Difficile, Surveillance Using Laboratory Data from BioSense Hospitals

    Content Type: Abstract

    To determine the feasibility of using BioSense laboratory data to do surveillance on Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and calculate overall and facility rates of disease.
    … outpatient), admission and discharge dates, and visit denominator data for rate calculations. A patient was …
  • Preventing blindness due to diabetic retinopathy in India: Need for a paradigm shift

    Content Type: Webinar

    Estimates suggest that there are 65 million persons living with diabetes in India and 6 million are at risk of going blind due to retinopathy. Recent studies highlight that 45% persons with diabetes are already blind when they present to an eye care… read more
    … factors"to"reduce"risk"of"complica2ons" •  Very"few"visit"an"ophthalmologist"when"referred" 12" … •  20%"advise"re2na"examina2on"rou2nely"at"first" visit" •  45%"stated"that"they"could"not"access"eye"data"of" …
  • Approaches to Syndromic Case Definitions for Drug Overdose Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    This focus of this webinar is to describe different syndromic surveillance approaches to drug overdose surveillance. Presenters will share how their case definitions were developed, stakeholders involved, intended audience and uses, as well as… read more
    … "  ED syndromic rapid data collection "  26 ED visits for every one OPR death !  Identify drug … the frequency of words appearing in drug overdose ED visits "  ED visits identified and uniquely identified by … substance abuse Case Definitions !  Any drug-related ED visit "  Drug overdose "  Substance abuse "  Drug not …
  • The Big Picture: Using Antibiotic Use and Surveillance Data to Better Inform Stewardship in Healthcare Settings

    Content Type: Webinar

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that antibiotic-resistant infections affect 2 million people and cause 23,000 deaths annually in the United States. It is well documented that the primary driver of antibiotic resistance… read more
    … and anaphylaxis � 1 in 1000 antibiotics lead to ED visit for an adverse event Physician Perception of Patient … effective • In one study, tool was used in 6% of eligible visits � Alert fatigue is a problem McGinn JAMA Intern Med …
  • Defining Clinical Condition Categories for Biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The goal of this project is to create a set of clinical condition categories based on explicit criteria for use in biosurveillance programs. The categories will be defined and keywords and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for implementation will be proposed.
    … nationally notifiable infectious diseases; 3) reasons for visit from CDC’s Hurricane Morbidity Report Form for Active …
  • Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance through Cross-border Data Sharing

    Content Type: Abstract

    In the fall of 2006, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) proactively began general discussions regarding surveillance issues of mutual interest. Both states, having operational… read more
    … gender, patient home zip code, admitted date and time, visit number, and free- text chief complaint. Approximately …