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  • A Novel Zoonotic Disease Outbreak Course to improve Surveillance and Response for the USDA

    Content Type: Abstract

    Outbreak Investigations course consisted to a series of 8 online modules, covering: •Confirm that an outbreak is occurring and confirm diagnosis •Case definition •Descriptive Epidemiology •Hypothesis Generation •Analytic Epidemiology •Preliminary… read more
    … Veterinary Services (VS) division. The objective of this training was to provide a standard framework to investigate … solutions. VS has expertise in animal surveillance, this training course demonstrated how to incorporate the … Veterinary Services (VS) division. The objective of this training was to provide a standard framework to investigate …
  • Homeless Population - Maricopa County Department of Public Health

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created using BioSense 2.0 phpMyAdmin and later transitioned to ESSENCE. The syndrome queries chief complaint and discharge diagnosis fields. The Maricopa County data include emergency room and inpatient visits.
    … using BioSense 2.0 phpMyAdmin and later transitioned to ESSENCE. The syndrome queries chief complaint and discharge … using BioSense 2.0 phpMyAdmin and later transitioned to ESSENCE. The syndrome queries chief complaint and discharge …
  • Strategies for Improving Grant and Scientific Writing - Part 1

    Content Type: Training

    This training was provided by Dr. Brian Dixon during the 2018 ISDS Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. This video is Part 1 of a two-part series. Click here to… read more
    … This training was provided by Dr. Brian Dixon during the 2018 … Submitted by elamb on Fri, 03/01/2019 - 11:07 … This training was provided by Dr. Brian Dixon during the 2018 …
  • Adapting a syndromic biosurveillance system to monitor veterans’ health impact associated with the gulf coast oil spill

    Content Type: Abstract

    On 20 April 2010, an explosion on an offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico led to a prolonged uncontrolled release of crude oil. Both clean-up workers and coastal residents were potentially at high risk for respiratory and other… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). ESSENCE captures specific patient care visit …
  • Emergency Department Visits for Influenza-Like Illness and Over the Counter Sales of Flu Remedies in the National Capitol Region, 2003-2007

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene conducts enhanced surveillance using the Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current version of ESSENCE for the… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current version of ESSENCE for the National … if people self-treat with OTC medications.2 METHODS In ESSENCE, ED data for the chief complaint subsyndrome of …
  • Using clinician mental models to guide annotation of medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes found in VA clinical documents

    Content Type: Abstract

    Medically unexplained syndromes (MUS) are conditions that are diagnosed on the basis of symptom constellations and are characterized by a lack of well-defined pathogenic pathways. The three most common MUS are chronic fatigue … read more
    … will support building a reference standard used for training and evaluation of a Natural Language Processing … will support building a reference standard used for training and evaluation of a Natural Language Processing … of clinician annotators. Annotated data can be used to train NLP tools for related surveillance tasks including …
  • Mass Gathering_Political Event - Maricopa County Deaprtment of Public Health

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was developed for enhanced surveillance during a 2017 U.S. President rally in Phoenix, Arizona. Terms were included based on events at previous rallies in other cities. The query was created using chief complaint field in NSSP ESSENCE.
    … The query was created using chief complaint field in NSSP ESSENCE. RALLY OR TRUMP ANDNOT TRUMPET OR PRESIDENT OR … The query was created using chief complaint field in NSSP ESSENCE. … 1139 … Mass Gathering_Political Event - Maricopa …
  • Zika - Arizona

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created as a part of the Arizona Arboviral Syndrome Surveillance Project, which includes bi-weekly monitoring of syndromic data to enhance traditional surveillance. The syndrome was initially created using BioSesne 2.0 phpMyAdmin… read more
    … using BioSesne 2.0 phpMyAdmin and later transitioned to ESSENCE. (zika andnot r[ue]zika) or ziki or (zica andnot … using BioSesne 2.0 phpMyAdmin and later transitioned to ESSENCE. … 1134 … Zika - Arizona …