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  • Use of Laboratory Drug Sensitivity Tests and Prescription Practices in Malawi

    Content Type: Abstract

    Of the 13 million people in Malawi1 85% are rural and the country has high burden of under-five morbidity and mortality due to preventable infectious diseases. Respiratory, febrile and diarrhea diseases are the top 3 morbidity and mortality… read more
    … which should inform prescription practices. There is lack of demand and reliance on drug sensitivity tests by the prescribing clinician. Clinicians sited the lack of laboratory capacity and also the delays that go with …
  • Syndromic Surveillance of Non-traumatic Dental Conditions in Idaho Core Areas

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Access to dental care is a public health problem in Idaho because most of the state is experiencing a shortage of dental health professionals. The Idaho Oral Health program has anecdotal evidence that some Idahoans compensate for this shortage by… read more
    … for non-traumatic dental care and how often. Given the lack of data available to understand this problem, the … problems from being a relatively minor topic, because of lack of data, to one about whether this issue should be … dental care and how often. Actions Taken Given the lack of data available to understand this problem, the …
  • Chronic Pain Syndrome - Kansas Board of Pharmacy

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This is a preliminary Chronic Pain-Related Syndrome, created to search relevant ICD10 and a few key terms in emergency department visits in ESSENCE. The codes and terms are specific to non-cancer related chronic pain with exclusions of… read more
    … Pain Disorder, Chronic Pain, Polymyalgia Rheumatica, Low Back Pain, Dorsalgia Negations - C00-C99, D00-D49, and D3A   … AND pain ) or (polymyalgia AND rheumatica) or (low AND back AND PAIN) or dorsalgia) ANDNOT (C[0-9][0-9] or C7[AB] …
  • Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to Disease Emergence in Isolated Regions

    Content Type: Abstract

    Argus is an event-based surveillance system which captures information from publicly available Internet media in multiple languages. The information is contextualized and indications and warning (I&W) of disease are identified. Reports are… read more
    … to medical staff and one relative, as well as a severe lack of biosafety personal protective and laboratory … effectiveness of disease management in the region: (1) a lack of government leadership and account- ability, (2) poor …
  • Introducing: Future MFT Facility Administration Tool – User Interface and Functionality

    Content Type: Webinar

    The NSSP Support Team will present an overview on the plans for a future Master Facility Table user interface (UI) designed to replace the current excel-spreadsheet update process. The presentation will feature mock-ups of the UI screens,… read more
    … 1 Emergency Care ‹#› Proposed UI So, what happens on the back-end of the system? This represents the rows that would … 1 Emergency Care ‹#› Proposed UI So what happens on the back end. You’ll notice that the Facility Master Table shows … missing an AHA_ID, so we are going to reject it to send back to Site Administrator. 56 GA Generic Hosp AHA_ID Please …
  • Training Session: 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
    …  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, …
  • Modeling surveillance networks for Human African Trypanosomiasis control in Northern Uganda

    Content Type: Case Study

    The multiple forms of Human African Trypanosomiasis (human T.b. gambiense and zoonotic T.b. rhodesiense, as well as the several strains which cause disease in animals) that occur in Uganda make coordinating the scientific and developmental, human… read more
    … extremely contentious and ethically problematic. • Lack of up-to-date data, and poor management and reporting … systems operating both within and across public sectors • Lack of regulation and record keeping in livestock sector, …
  • Using Biosurveillance Whole-System Facsimiles To Compare Aberrancy-Detection Methods: Should BioSense Use SatScan?

    Content Type: Abstract

    OBJECTIVE A “whole-system facsimile” recreates a complex automated biosurveillance system running prospectively on real historical datasets. We systematized this approach to compare the performance of otherwise… read more
    … alarms, the daily sta- tistics were performed on paired back- ground+injection vs. background-only time series. For …