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  • Surveillance of Suicide Attempts and Ideation Presenting in Area Emergency Departments

    Content Type: Success Stories

    In 2015, Idaho was among the top 10 states for suicides in the United States. Suicide as the cause of death for teens and young adults in Idaho was exceeded only by accidental deaths. On average, one suicide death occurred among all ages every day.… read more
    … were identified by the query and line-by-line review of visit data. Zero to four (mean = 1.17) cases per week were … 2017. Additional years of data are needed to determine if lack of a temporal pattern is unusual or expected. PHD1 … of methods to sex and age. Syndromic surveillance of ED visit data can provide aggregated and timely information …
  • Rapid Surveillance and Data Integration: A Syndromic Description of Bicycle-Related Injury in Boston

    Content Type: Webinar

    The city of Boston has taken a pro-active stand to increase physical activity to decrease chronic disease. Included in that plan is to increase bicycle use and accessibility. Boston has been increasing the number of bike paths and lanes, introduced… read more
    … (10) Boston acute care emergency department visits • ED Visit data received every 24 hours • Variables: unique visit … Asthma Localized Cutaneous Lesion Elbow Injury Spine/Back Injury Cardiac Dysrhythmias Mental disorders Eye Injury …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 2 - Introduction to ESSENCE Configuration for BioSense Platform

    Content Type: Webinar

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is conducting a three-part webinar series to describe how data will flow to the BioSense Platform. This comprehensive series explores how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE… read more
    … if age < 2 years when calculated from birth date and visit date) o  C_Patient_Age_Years (Normalized to an integer … Pla,orm Archive Modifica5ons (conDnued) §  Calculated Visit Date—now hierarchically defined by selecDng the first …
  • BioSense Platform Admin Tool Requirements Discussion

    Content Type: Webinar

    The BioSense Platform features a tool giving site administrators control over how their data are shared. Thanks to a workgroup the BioSense Governance Group convened last year, CDC now has a good idea of what data-sharing capabilities users want in… read more
    … aggregate data across borders !  BioSense provides visit-level access !  Regions need ability to view patients … seen in another state facility (without sharing visit-level data with entire jurisdiction) Fully … •  Functional Requirements Table !  For(more(informa2on,(visit(the( Public(Health(Informa2cs(Ins2tute(website( …
  • Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance (Pt 2): A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the Department of Veterans Affairs Implementation

    Content Type: Webinar

    This webinar is part of the Meaningful Use Webinar Series entitled "Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue" Dr. Cynthia Lucero continues our Meaningful Use webinar series with an introduction to… read more
    … age, sex, eligibility, homelessness, death indicator) Visit information (e.g. ICD-9 diagnosis codes, E&M codes, … & DoD 37 Data Challenges Locating/mapping data accurately Lack of data standardization Data validation process …
  • Syndromic Surveillance for Influenza in Washington State: A Local and Regional Perspective

    Content Type: Abstract

    We explored the utility of tracking emergency department (ED) visits for febrile illness as a proxy for influenza surveillance, from both a local and a regional perspective.
    … There was a strong correlation between weekly ED fever visit counts and positive flu isolates, both for the region … lation between positive flu isolates and weekly ED fever visit counts was highest among 18-44 year-olds (r=.87) and … teeism trends correlated strongly with weekly fever visit counts among 5-17 year-olds (r = 0.83). The …
  • 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 … frostbite^,or,^dressing change^,), 8 to visit the ED daily for four days to have his wounds … chief complaint and discharge diagnosis fields in ED visit and inpatient hospital admission data but was also …
  • Beyond Detection: Attack Characterization with Syndromic and Clinical Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Most research in syndromic surveillance has emphasized early detection, but clinical diagnosis of the index case will tend to occur before detection by syndromic surveillance for certain types of outbreaks [1]. Syndromic surveillance may, however,… read more
    … at time t, we define a window of w days duration to ‘look back’ for excess cases. For each day d in the window, we … cases. We then sum the residuals over days in the ‘look back’ window to obtain an estimate of the disease burden … we conducted a simulation study using ambulatory visit records for respiratory conditions. We used a model …