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  • How Syndromic Surveillance Helps Clinical Practice: Use of Epidemiological Surveillance Data to Inform Clinical Decisions

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenter Dr. Andrew Fine, Assistant Professor, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School Hosts Johns Hopkins University Grand Rounds and ISDS Research Committee Date… read more
    … throat for use by patients prior to a clinical encounter www.sportsillustrated.com Topics Clinical prediction rules Bacterial meningitis …
  • Automatically tracking diabetes using information in physicians’ notes

    Content Type: Abstract

    Patient consultations recorded as voice dictations are frequently stored electronically as transcriptions in free text format. The information stored in free text is not computer tractable. Advances in artificial intelligence permit the… read more
    … text format. The information stored in free text is not comp- uter tractable. Advances in artificial intelligence … Bhatia et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 3 81932 transcribed outpatient notes … Proc AMIA Symp 2001, pp 105–14. Available at http://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/sites/ppmc/articles/PMC2243578/. …
  • An exploratory analysis of the 2010 measles outbreak in Zimbabwe

    Content Type: Abstract

    This report describes an exploratory analysis of the 2009-2010 Zimbabwe measles outbreak based on data publicly available in the World Health Organization's Zimbabwe cholera epidemiological bulletin archive. As of December 12th 2010, the outbreak… read more
    … Zimbabwe epidemiological bulletin number 89. http://www.who.int/entity/hac/crises/zwe/sitreps/zwe_ … Zimbabwe cholera epidemiological bulletin archive. http://www.who.int/hac/crises/zwe/sitreps/epi_archive/ … Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL http://www.R- project.org/. 4. Lewin-Koh NJ, Bivand R. maptools: …
  • Using chief complaint data to evaluate the effectiveness of a statewide smoking ban

    Content Type: Abstract

    In November 2006, Ohioans supported a statute that set into law a requirement that all public places, and places of employment in Ohio prohibit smoking.1 The law took effect in December 2006; however, the rules for implementation were not finalized… read more
    … Storm et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 43 attack/AMI from 2005–2010 for all … 3701-52Clean Indoor Air (Smoking Regulations). http://www.odh.ohio.gov/rules/final/f3701-52.aspx. 2 A Report of … gov/library/secondhandsmoke/report. 3 IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2010 Secondhand Smoke Exposure …
  • ESSENCE Version 2.0: The Department of Defense's Worldwide Syndromic Surveillance System Receives Several Enhancements

    Content Type: Abstract

    ESSENCE receives and analyzes data for the Military Health System’s (MHS) 9 million beneficiaries resulting in approximately 90,000 daily outpatient and emergency department visits worldwide. In May 2008, MHS released … read more
    … J. Savory, M.S1., Gale E. Savage, MD, MPH1., Kenneth L. Cox, MD, MPH2 1Epidemiological Surveillance Methods and … Technological Application [Online]. Available: http://www.ha.osd.mil/ahlta/. Accessed on February 14, 2008. …
  • Exploring Syndrome Definition by Applying Clustering Methods to Electronic Health Records Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Electronic  Health  Record  (EHR)  data  offers  the  researcher a potentially rich source of data for tracking disease  syndromes. Procedures  performed  on  the  patient, medications… read more
    … (ESSENCE) were included in the analyses. All ESSENCE ICD9-CM code sets can be found at: http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivi … surveillance syndromes. Additional analyses that will be con- ducted include using medications prescribed, and …
  • Early Detection of Tuberculosis Outbreaks among the San Francisco Homeless

    Content Type: Abstract

    San Francisco has the highest rate of TB in the US. Although in recent years the incidence of TB has been declining in the San Francisco general population, it has remained relatively constant in the homeless population. Spatial… read more
    … and smaller amount of historical data is required com- pared to when census tracts are used as the spatial …
  • Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor for Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The goal of this project is to compare automated syn-dromic surveillance queries using raw chief complaints to those pre-processed with the Emergency Medical Text Processor (EMT-P) system.
    … syn- dromic surveillance queries using raw chief com- plaints to those pre-processed with the Emergency …