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  • Finding medically unexplained symptoms within VA clinical documents using v3NLP

    Content Type: Abstract

    Pro-WATCH (protecting war fighters using algorithms for text processing to capture health events), a syndromic surveillance project for veterans of operation enduring freedom (OEF)/operation Iraqi freedom (OIF), includes a task to identify medically… read more
    … machine learning model, trained using annotations from a training corpus currently under devel- opment. A statistical … duration component of the symptom identifica- tion. The training corpus is expected to have duration assertions. The …
  • Automated Detection of GI Syndrome using Structured and Non-Structured Data from the VA EMR

    Content Type: Abstract

    Objective We performed a gold-standard manual chart review for gastro-intestinal syndrome to evaluate automated detection models based on both structured and non-structured data extracted from the VA … read more
    … models included “GI” ICD-9 code sets used in the “ESSENCE” and the “BioSense” syndromic surveillance systems. … on the index visit day of fever > 37.8ºC. RESULTS The ESSENCE and BioSense ICD-9 code sets detected 242 GI …
  • Substance Abuse Among Youth in Miami-Dade County, 2005-2007

    Content Type: Abstract

    The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 9th to 12th graders in Miami-Dade County public schools found that 69.7% of students tried alcohol, 28.3% tried marijuana, and 6.3% tried cocaine in their lifetime. Results also showed that… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) 2) Miami-Dade Fire Rescue 911 Call Center 3) Agency … arrests SAS 9.1.3 was utilized for analysis RESULTS ESSENCE In 2006, there were 431 ED visits for substance …
  • JIRA Service Desk: The New Portal for NSSP/BioSense Technical Assistance

    Content Type: Webinar

    An introduction to the NSSP Service Desk portal for technical assistance which is replacing the old "BioSenseProgram" help desk email with nssp@cdc.gov email address. Agenda:
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    … Terence%Merri=,%Soby%Tadjalli%and%Max%Worlund%% ! Analyst/Training!Specialist!–!ICF!–!Contract!support!for!NSSP! … Senior!Training!Specialist!–!ICF!–!Contract!support!for!NSSP! …
  • Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance System Evaluation, Ebonyi State Nigeria, 2017

    Content Type: Abstract

    Nigeria is one of the three countries in the world with ongoing wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission, alongside Afghanistan and Pakistan. Nigeria also experiences outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2). Following the… read more
    … P. Ossai6 1Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Asokoro, Nigeria; 2Community Medicine, … of Health and Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program for supporting the study. References 1. …
  • A bootstrapping method to improve cohort identification

    Content Type: Abstract

    The research reported in this paper is part of a larger effort to achieve better signal-to-noise ratio, hence accuracy, in pharmacovigilance applications. The relatively low frequency of occurrence of adverse drug reactions leads to… read more
    … encounters with related ICD-9 codes. 2. Identify a training set T, from W, containing positive and negative … of ICD-9 codes of the given diagnosis, tapers down as training progresses, while the learned relationship …
  • Dengue hemorrhagic fever One Health Surveillance approach effectiveness in Saudi Arabia

    Content Type: Case Study

    Dengue hemorraghic fever (DHF) is affecting more than 50 million people globally and still remains a persistent public health challenge in Saudi Arabia [1]. Althougth there has been available financial resource, limitations and deficiencies in… read more
    … __x Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration __x_ Training and Resources _x__ Technologies and Methodologies … education outreach -Building capacity development and training through graduate (master and PhD) degree pogrammes …
  • Experts Collaborate to Develop a Standardized Syndrome Definition for Cold-related Illness

    Content Type: Success Stories

    In winter, people are at risk for cold-related illness (CRI) such as hypothermia. Deaths coded as weather-related from 2006 through 2010 showed exposure to excessive cold as the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States.1… read more
    … variation in terms, inclusion and exclusion terms, ESSENCE query syntax, potential applications and … Practice. The CRI definition has been implemented in NSSP–ESSENCE,* and associated documentation will be posted in the …