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  • The Use of Rapid Diagnostic Assays to Supplement Syndromic Surveillance: Preliminary Results of a Pilot Project in New York City

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance systems can detect increases in respiratory and gastrointestinal illness, but diagnosis of etiologic agents can be delayed due to difficult, time-consuming identification and low rates of testing for viral pathogens. Rapid… read more
    … difficult. The pace of clinical care within the ED, the lack of dedicated clinical staff, and the perceived lack of benefit of the testing to clinical care resulted in …
  • Recursive Least Squares Prediction of Syndromic Data for Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes a method to predict syndromic data for surveillance of public health using the method of recursive least squares and a new method of correcting for the day of week effect in order to have a prediction of… read more
    … interested in using the above method for predicting a “back- ground” from a single syndromic data channel. A major … obtained. Adaptively corrected data are used to predict “back- ground” counts. RESULTS The new integrated method is …
  • Mapping Tool between two code sets: ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS

    Content Type: Webinar

    Join ISDS on June 3rd for an instructional webinar on ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS mapping tools, including the newly released MapIt tool. This tool, which was developed by AHRQ and CDC, is an automated mapping tool that utilizes General Equivalence… read more
    … RB>Map> L89.100> Pressure>ulcer,>unstageable,>unspec.>back> RB>Map> L89.110> Pressure>ulcer,>unstageable,>rt.upper>back> RB>Map> L89.120> Pressure>ulcer,>unstageable,>lt.upper>back> RB>Map> L89.130> Pressure>ulcer,>unstageable,>rt.lower>back> RB>Map> L89.140> …
  • One Health Concept: Building educational and translation research capacity of graduate and post-graduate students in India

    Content Type: Case Study

    Food safety is a global issue with diverse challenges along various critical points in the food production chain. In India, food safety programs including establishment of surveillance programs and quantitative approaches through integration of… read more
    … man power to expand the workforce. The weak link was lack of logistic support such as relieving workforce for … activities, allocation of budget for fresh recruitment, lack of adequate staff in laboratories to perform sampling …
  • Standard Operation Procedures for Three Syndromic Surveillance Systems in Washoe County, Nevada - A Local Perspective

    Content Type: Abstract

    Washoe County District Health Department (WCDHD) is a local health district serving nearly 400,000 residents in Washoe County including cities of Reno and Sparks, the second largest urban area in Nevada. To enhance overall public health surveillance… read more
    … date, current users, URL if web-based, default and back-up manager, manager’s responsibilities, and overview of … system developers. Step 3-8 also includes default and back-up responsible persons. CONCLUSIONS Although this …
  • A Comprehensive Approach to the Assessment of Surveillance Strategies: the Case of Scrapie in Great Britain

    Content Type: Abstract

    Multiple surveillance activities have been conducted in Great Britain (GB) with the objective of estimating the occurrence of scrapie, a fatal neurological infectious disease of small ruminants: statutory reporting of clinical cases, annual surveys… read more
    … the representativeness of our surveillance efforts); iii) back-calculation methods integrating all surveillance … Similarly, frequency estimates from capture-recapture and back-calculation methods informed the parameters of …
  • Acute Flaccid Myelitis – Surveillance updates and CDC activities, 2018

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented December 20, 2018. The presentation will provide a summary of the epidemiology of AFM during the increase in cases in 2018 and updates on CDC’s AFM activities. Presenters Adriana Lopez, MHS,… read more
    … ina^,or,^Sepsis^,or,^Ulcer^,or,^Cellulitis^,or,^Bleed^,or,^Back pain^,or,^Back spasm^,or,^Sciatic^,or,^paresthes^,or,^Testical … ina^,or,^Sepsis^,or,^Ulcer^,or,^Cellulitis^,or,^Bleed^,or,^Back pain^,or,^Back spasm^,or,^Sciatic^,or,^paresthes^,or,^Testical …
  • Predicting Probabilities of Flu Vaccination and Commuting Methods Having Elevated Flu Transmission Probabilities in New York City

    Content Type: Abstract

    Aerial transmission and direct contact are important factors for flu. Consequently, close contact with large groups of people, such as during mass transit, present opportunities for transmission. One protective method that… read more
    … The good- ness-of-fit test showed no evidence of a lack of fit (p=0.9351), and the max-rescaled R-square is … The goodness-of-fit test failed to produce evidence of a lack of fit (p= 0.4132), and the max-rescaled R-square is …