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  • Rapid classification of autism for public health surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    This presentation given August 3, 2017 describes work toward applying machine learning methods to CDC’s autism surveillance program. CDC’s population-based autism surveillance is labor-intensive and costly, as it requires clinicians to manually… read more
    … Forests1 • Ensemble classifier, 10,000 trees initially Training Data: 2008 Georgia ADDM site • 1,162 children (601 … pandas) 1. Breiman, 2001 Absent Random forests: training one tree PresentAbsent “eye contact” “autism” …
  • Disease surveillance using school absenteeism data in rural Cambodia

    Content Type: Abstract

    Previous studies in developed countries showed school absenteeism data can serve as a proxy for monitoring infectious disease activities and facilitates early community outbreak detection. However, absenteeism patterns may differ in developing… read more
    … surveillance system was feasible after initial staff training, purchasing necessary equip- ments for …
  • Approaches to Prediction Models for Poison Control Center-Based Syndromic Surveillance for Foodborne Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    To construct and validate a prediction algorithm that detects early increases in laboratory reports of enteric illnesses on the basis of calls to a poison control center reporting suspected foodborne illnesses.
    … using the first two and a half years of data (“training data set”), and validated in the remaining two and … hours of symptom onset. Forty-five percent of the PCHD “training” data set and 25% of the “test data set” was …
  • Comparing Syndromic Surveillances using Two Aspects: Emergency and Telehealth Data Sources

    Content Type: Abstract

    The objective of this paper is to examine the utility of Emergency Department and Telehealth data for Syndromic Surveillance. This works attempts to minimize false outbreak detection. It also demonstrates that these two data sources contain… read more
    … algorithms use the historical data of the outbreaks as a training set to build a model of this data. A sliding window of several days is used with the sequence data to train the neural networks (NN). Emergency Department (ED) … Two types of outbreak patterns were injected into the training set at a rate of one outbreak per year. These …
  • Emergency Medical Services (EMS) & Ebola

    Content Type: Webinar

    The 2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa and beyond. EMS providers have to be prepared to treat or transport suspected or known Ebola patients. Join FirstWatch President and long-time advocate… read more
    …   – Heavy  tourism  due  to  Disney  World   •  Provider  training  /retraining  to  capture  travel   informaEon …   – MERS-­‐CoV   – Ebola   •  Leverage  systems  and  training  to  get  up  to   speed  quickly  for …
  • Hybrid Probabilistic Modeling and Automated Data Fusion for Biosurveillance Applications

    Content Type: Abstract

    The increased threat of bioterrorism and naturally occurring diseases, such as pandemic influenza, continually forces public health authorities to review methods for evaluating data and reports. The objective of bio-surveillance is to automatically… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) system. These data include records of classified … information is potentially available to the user via the ESSENCE interface or sources available via the internet. Our …
  • Improving Rabies Surveillance Using Syndromic Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    In order to assess the use of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis in Indiana, the Communicable Disease Reporting Rule, adopted October 11, 2000, requires the reporting of rabies PEP administration. Indiana is a “home rule” state; that is to say, local… read more
    … METHODS Initially, the veterinary epidemiologist used the ESSENCE query feature to search for rabies related patient … chief complaint after it has been processed by the ESSENCE chief complaint parser. (CCP like '%BAT%' and CCP …
  • CDC Heroin v3

    Content Type: Syndrome

    THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC HEROIN OVERDOSE V4 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE. States… read more
    … dope Exclusions Chief complaint Exclude See list below in ESSENCE code Table 2. ESSENCE query for suspected heroin overdose (,^[;/ …