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New Master Facility Table: Improving the Quality of Facility Data
Content Type: Webinar
The Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance (DHIS) team has been working to clean, standardize, and improve the quality of data on the Master Facility Table (MFT). The MFT provides a unique identifier for each facility along with facility… read more -
Impact of including physician’s prescribing directions on calculations of medication possession ratios
Content Type: Abstract
Medication adherence studies typically use pharmacy-dispensing data to infer drug exposures. These studies often require calculations reflecting the intensity and duration of drug exposure. The typical approach to estimating duration of drug… read more -
Incorporating seasonality and other long-term trends improves surveillance for acute respiratory infections
Content Type: Abstract
As the electronic medical record (EMR) market matures, long-term time series of EMR-based surveillance data are becoming available. In this work, we hypothesized that statistical aberrancy-detection methods that incorporate seasonality and other… read more -
Application of biosurveillance methodology to the 2010 Asian foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks
Content Type: Abstract
Argus is an event-based, multi-lingual, biosurveillance system, which captures and analyzes information from publicly available internet media. Argus produces reports that summarize and contextualize direct, indirect, and… read more -
Influenza mortality surveillance using a statewide electronic death registration system F Nebraska, 2009–2010
Content Type: Abstract
Public health surveillance using death data is critical for tracking the impact of diseases such as influenza. However, utility of such systems is compromised by delayed reporting, particularly when it is paper based. In Nebraska, funeral directors… read more -
Applying classification and anomaly detection techniques to real-world data
Content Type: Abstract
Real-world public health data often provide numerous challenges. There may be a limited amount of background data, data dropouts, noise, and human error. The data from an emergency department (ED) in Urbana, IL includes a … read more -
Assessing address data quality for public health surveillance in Montreal
Content Type: Abstract
In Montreal, notifiable diseases are reported to the Public Health Department (PHD). Of 44, 250 disease notifications received in 2009, up to 25% had potential address errors. These can be introduced during transcription, handwriting… read more -
Asthma patterns in Boston emergency department visits for children age five and under
Content Type: Abstract
The burden of asthma on the youngest children in Boston is largely characterized through hospitalizations and self-report surveys. Hospitalization rates are highest in Black and Hispanic populations under age five. A study of… read more