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  • 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
    … data representativeness. 2 AFM Syndromic Query Methods www.healthsurveillance.org § Available fields for … Chief Complaint Raw/Updates – Discharge Diagnosis • ICD10 CM • 5% SNOMED CT – All this is incorporated into a query … FALL | ;S09.90XA;S09.90XA; 3 AFM Syndromic Query Methods www.healthsurveillance.org § Borrowing from methods and …
  • Comparison of Automated Geocoding Methods in a Distributed Multi-County Disease Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    The University of Washington's Center for Public Health Informatics, in collaboration with the Kitsap County Health District and the UW Clinical Informatics Research Group, has developed the Peninsula Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection… read more
    … http://cphi.washington.edu. [3] U.S. Census www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/bg_metadata.html Further Information: Bryant Karras, …
  • Oregon ESSENCE: Using ESSENCE for Mass Gathering Surveillance

    Content Type: Report

    Syndromic surveillance is the near real-time monitoring of key health indicators in emergency department (ED) and urgent care visits. Oregon ESSENCE tracks the number of visits for specific patient symptoms using… read more
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  • Klompas et al. Respond: Automated Public Health Reporting-- Possible with a Coalition of the Willing

    Content Type: Abstract

    Professor Hripcsak rightly points out some of the challenges inherent in disseminating and sustaining robust information systems to automate the detection and reporting of notifiable diseases using data from electronic medical records (EMR). New… read more
    … professional societies, regulators, providers, com- mercial EMR vendors, and academia. We hope that co- operation amongst these parties can help us all to meet …
  • Assessing and Optimizing the Accuracy of Physician Billing Claims for Use in Automated Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    To assess the accuracy of community-based physician claims for identifying 5 syndromes: fever, gastrointestinal, neurological, rash, and respiratory.
    … the list of sampled physicians and claims to the Quebec Col- lege of Physicians who, acting as a trusted third … DoD-GEIS. 2003. ICD-9 code set used in ESSENCE. http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENC … with critical bioterrorism-associated agents. http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/syndromedef/ Advances in Disease …
  • Early Detection of Influenza-like Illness: Developing a Multi-Variate Approach

    Content Type: Abstract

    The 2003/04 influenza season included a more pathogenetic organism and had an earlier onset. There were noticeably more deaths in otherwise healthy children than in previous seasons. Following this season, States were asked by the Centers for… read more
    … [1] 2003-04 U.S. Influenza Season Summary. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2003- … [2] Brammer TL, Murray EL, Fukuda K, Hall HE, Klimov A, Cox NJ, Surveillance for Influenza-United States, 1997-98, … [2] Brammer TL, Murray EL, Fukuda K, Hall HE, Klimov A, Cox NJ, Surveillance for Influenza-United States, 1997-98, …
  • Automated Surveillance To Detect An Influenza Epidemic: Which Respiratory Syndrome Should We Monitor?

    Content Type: Abstract

    OBJECTIVE Syndromic surveillance systems (SSS) seek early detection of infectious diseases outbreaks by focusing on pre-diagnostic symptoms. We do not yet know which respiratory syndrome should be monitored for a SSS to discover… read more
    … yet retained a sensitivity of 69-100% (Models 4 and 6). Com pared to the “respiratory” ICD-9 codeset used by CDC’s …
  • Real Time EMS Events as Surrogate Events in Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Prehospital  EMS  data  is  rarely  mentioned  in  discus-sions  surrounding  syndromic  surveillance  for  covert  bio-terrorism  attacks  or  for  the  … read more
    … plot and track entire populations of patients. Local com- munities should reach out to their out of hospital par- …