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  • UPDATED: Syndromic Surveillance 101 - An Introductory Course in Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Training

    An Online Training Course Ever wonder what syndromic surveillance is? How it is applied? This introduction to syndromic surveillance answers your questions and gives you a foundation for understanding how surveillance is used by public… read more
    … of NSSP/BioSense Platform- updated map, next steps ISDS CoP-explain the community and how to get involved; Knowledge … 8th minute To learn more about the NSSP:  https://www.cdc.gov/nssp/index.html 27th minute Resource … National Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP-CoP): Strengthening Health Surveillance Capabilities …
  • Using R Shiny to Share Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented November 21, 2017. This presentation covers how the shiny package can complement traditional surveillance reporting through online, interactive applications. Kelley demonstrates a shiny application Cook County is currently… read more
    … of the code available on Github here:  https://github.com/kb230557/Flu_Shiny_App . Document R Group_Shiny … complete apps and shiny widgets at https://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/ Watch the shiny video tutorials at … HTML/CSS Resources for learning HTML/CSS FreeCodeCamp: www.freecodecamp.org Learn to Code HTML & CSS: …
  • Opioid Diagnosis Codes - Adapted from the HCUP Definition - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created as a way to integrate the H-CUP Opioid-Related Hospital Use definition into ESSENCE. H-CUP is the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project and we believe their Opioid-Related Hospital Use definition is a great starting point… read more
    … definitions. Details on the H-CUP can be found at https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/ and this syndrome definition is … derived from the list of ICD-10 codes located at https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/faststats/OpioidUseServlet in the following Excel file https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/faststats/faq_faststats.jsp Syndromic …
  • Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza

    Content Type: Abstract

    We report here on the use of the North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition of influenza for the purpose of influenza surveillance.
    … and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org ) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition … and Emerging Infection Prevention Sys- tem (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engi- neer a syndrome definition … illness, a combination of evidence of fever and another com- mon symptom was used. The frequency of this com- …
  • 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
    … ( https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/pdo_guide_to_icd-9-cm_and_icd-10_c… ) into ICD10 using the ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) file … (https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/pdo_guide_to_icd-9-cm_and_icd-10_codes-a.pdf) into ICD10 using the ICD-9-CM to …
  • Can Internet Searches Provide Useful Data For Public Health Surveillance?

    Content Type: Abstract

     Internet-based technologies have been used to assist in disease surveillance and reporting.  The Public Health Agency of Canada operates the Global Public Health Information Network, credited with early notification of many outbreaks (… read more
    … ). An innovative web-based forum ( www.RUsick2.msu.edu ) collects foodborne illness reports … internet media sources such as news wires and web pages(www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/media/nr-rp/2004/2004_gphin- … recently released “Google Trends” application (www.google.com/trends) uses a sample of Google web searches to show the …
  • Evaluation of Preprocessing Techniques for Chief Complaint Classification

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance system collects chief complaints as free text and uses a naïve Bayesian classifier called CoCo to classify the complaints into syndromic categories. CoCo 3.0 has been trained on 28,990 manually clas-… read more
    … clas-sified chief complaints. The free text chief com-plaints are challenging to work with, due to problems … clas- sified chief complaints. The free text chief com- plaints are challenging to work with, due to problems … is a statistical classifier, CoCo was already trained to cor- rectly classify the misspellings and abbreviations in …
  • Sensitivity and Specificity of ICD-9 Based Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural Emergency Department, Michigan 2004

    Content Type: Abstract

    The use of syndromic surveillance systems to assist with the timely detection of unusual health events first occurred prior to the events of September 11, 2001. In the State of Michigan a pilot project with emergency departments began collecting… read more
    … in which the following study was done is a resort com-munity where the population differs between the summer … in which the following study was done is a resort com- munity where the population differs between the summer … based on the ICD-9 codes presented by the multi-agency con- sensus statement [2]. Sensitivity and specificity of …