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Description of the quality of public health case reports received at a local health department and potential impact on workflow
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When a reportable condition is identified, clinicians and laboratories are required to report the case to public health authorities. These case reports help public health officials to make informed decisions and implement appropriate… read more… tional Research in Public Health Informatics, NLM Training grant # 5T15LM007124 (DR). References 1 Rajeev D, … -
Variation of Chief Complaint-Based Respiratory Symptom Data in One Hospital's Nurse Advice Call Center and Emergency Department
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The objective of this report is to describe the variation of symptoms being detected as respiratory or influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome using nurse advice call center (NACC) data and emergency department (ED) chief complaint data compared to… read more… usefulness of this syndromic surveillance system (i.e. training staff to collect and enter specific terms among … -
Influenza mortality surveillance using a statewide electronic death registration system F Nebraska, 2009–2010
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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… such as influenza-associated mortality. Additional training and refinement are needed to improve utility. … -
Estimating the incidence of influenza cases that present to emergency departments
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Our laboratory previously established the value of over-the-counter (OTC) sales data for the early detection of disease outbreaks. We found that thermometer sales (TS) increased significantly and early during influenza (flu) season.… read more… randomly selecting a different subset of counties for training and testing. (Figure 1). Results Least squares … -
SyCo: A Probabilistic Machine Learning Method for Classifying Chief Complaints into Symptom and Syndrome Categories
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Scientists have utilized many chief complaint (CC) classification techniques in biosurveillance including keyword search, weighted keyword search, and naïve Bayes. These techniques may utilize CC-to-syndrome or CC-… read more… of the relationship between words and symptoms given a training set of labeled chief complaints.5 To perform a … -
Special Event Data
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Problem Summary A truncated historical dataset is provided from one or more subregions with multiple participating hospitals with enough variety in the patient volume and demographics to make the problem challenging and to generate alerting… read more… years’ data with all seasons could be used for training, the last year’s data for testing. c. The … -
First report on MRSA recovered from wild boars in the north of Portugal
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Antibiotic resistance is an emerging public health concern and the scientific community recognizes the need to evaluate its epidemiology. Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are a key to this problem. Often found in the natural flora of the skin, nose and… read more… STUDY ___ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration __ Training and Resources ___ Technologies and Methodologies … -
Introduction to Public Health Surveillance
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Presented December 8, 2015 Dr. Richard S. Hopkins presented the following slides as part of the ISDS Intro to BioSurveillance Workshop at the 2015 ISDS Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado. This presentation demonstrates… read more… persons Evaluation and management of exposed people Training for doctors in the community Public education …