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  • Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot

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    The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more
    … Olson et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 4949 SAS if preferred. Sites were asked … M, Buehler JW, Mostashari F. Adv Dis Surv 2008;5:185 www.isdsjournal.org/article/view/3307/2456. 2 Paladini M, … J, Murray E, Gunn J, Olson D. Adv Dis Surv 2008;5:50 www.isdsjournal.org/article/view/3252/2359. 3 Pendarvis J, …
  • Development of an Introductory Continuing Medical Education Program for Public Health Professionals and Clinicians in Syndromic Surveillance

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    58 medical licensure boards require between 12 and 50 hours of Continuing Medical Education (CME) for re-licensure of physicians. 28 states as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Mariana Islands, require… read more
    … Requirements and Statistics, 2006. Available from: www.ama- … assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/455/licensurerereg-06.pdf 2 www.nsweb.nursingspectrum.com 3 Barbara A. B runt. The impacto f lifelong learning in …
  • Prospective space-time analysis of the 2007 cryptosporidiosis outbreak, Salt Lake County, Utah

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    Cryptosporidiosis is a gastrointestinal illness due to a protozoan parasite that is highly contagious, and resistant to multiple disinfectants. Utah experienced a large, community-wide outbreak of cryptosporidiosis between June and December of 2007… read more
    … National Cancer Institute: Bethesda, MD, 2007, www.satscan.org. This is an Open Access article distributed … and I Yamada.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 93 Figure 1 Significant space-time … Threats Journal M Taddie and I Yamada. 2011, 4:s153 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 94 …
  • Monitoring Pharmacy Retail Data for Anomalous Space-Time Clusters

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    Bio-surveillance systems monitor multiple data streams (over-the-counter (OTC) sales, Emergency Department visits, etc.) to detect both natural disease outbreaks (e.g. influenza) and bio-terrorist attacks (e.g. anthrax re-lease). Many detection… read more
    … impressive results under simulated environments, but the com- plex behavior of real-world data and high costs asso- … can access alerts online on the SSS website, add and view com- ments on each alert, and select which alerts they want … Maheshkumar R. Sabhnani, sabhnani+@cs.cmu.edu www.autonlab.org Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006;1:62 …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Shows Rise in Emergency Department Visits after Case of Ebola

    Content Type: Success Stories

    The first Ebola virus case on American soil was confirmed September 30, 2014, in a 45-year-old man. He had entered the country on September 20, 2014, from Liberia. Feeling ill, he visited a Dallas, Texas, hospital 5 days later where he was released… read more
    … Tarrant County Public Health wfstephens@tarrantcounty.com Document NSSP-Success-Story-TX-Ebola.pdf 6 views … Tarrant County Public Health wfstephens@tarrantcounty.com Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of … Services Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance www.cdc.gov/nssp The National Syndromic Surveillance Program …
  • Syndromic surveillance of influenza-like illness using automated VA data preliminary results from the Idaho infectious disease reporting network

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    Current influenza-like illness monitoring in Idaho is on the basis of syndromic surveillance using laboratory data, combined with periodic person-to-person reports collected by Idaho state workers. This system relies on voluntary reporting.… read more
    … Pocatello, ID, USA E-mail: William.Weppner@va.gov www.IIDRN.org Objective The objective of this paper is to … basis of syndromic surveillance using laboratory data, com- bined with periodic person-to-person reports collected … Weppner et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 99 References 1 Marsden-Haug N, Foster …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Climate and Health Guidance Document

    Content Type: Report

    In general, data from public health surveillance can be used for short- and long-term planning and response through retrospective data analysis of trends over time or specific events. Combining health outcome data (e.g., hospitalizations or deaths)… read more
    … levels of ozone, particulate matter and carbon dioxide (CO2) • Higher pollen counts with increased allergenicity, … MVCs = motor vehicle crashes, ED = emergency department, CO = Carbon monoxide, CVD = cardiovascular disease When … *monoxide* carbon mono expos *CO poison* carbon monoxide CO2 co exp oxide poisoning c02 Inclusion ICD-9-CM 986, …
  • Improving System Ability to Identify Symptom Complexes in Free-Text Data

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    Text-based syndrome case definitions published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)1 form the basis for the syndrome queries used by the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT). Keywords within these… read more
    … OBJECTIVE This paper describes a novel approach to the con- struction of syndrome queries written in Structured … bioter- rorism-associated agents. Available at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/ surveillance/syndromedef/index.asp. Accessed … SQL Server 2005 Books Online, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library /ms174214.aspx, Accessed June 29, 2006. …