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  • Tracking Health Effects of Wildfires: The Oregon ESSENCE Wildfire Pilot Project

    Content Type: Abstract

    Wildfires occur annually in Oregon, and the health risks of wildfire smoke are well documented1. Before implementing syndromic surveillance through Oregon ESSENCE, assessing the health effects of wildfires in real time was very challenging. Summer… read more
    … their surveillance needs and practices and developed a training program to increase capacity to conduct surveillance at the local level. Following the training, one of the LPHAs integrated syndromic surveillance …
  • Developing policy to support novel Caribbean Tourism and Health surveillance program

    Content Type: Abstract

    In January 2016, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), serving 24 Member States(MS), began executing a regional Tourism and Health program (THP), recognizing that the health of Caribbean economies is closely related to the health of its… read more
    … visitor/tourism illnesses. This coupled with inadequate training, lack of standards and collaboration between … system (THiS), food safety and environmental sanitation training, standards and multisectoral health and tourism …
  • ESSENCE: Free Text Query Negation

    Content Type: Training

    Free text queries are performed by ESSENCE users very often. And increasingly, those free text queries are incorporating negation terms that allow the users to find case definitions when certain terms are not present. This video attempts to explain… read more
    … Advanced Query Tool (AQT). AQT is explained in the online training ( https://www.surveillancerepository.org/essence-online-training-course ) and training pdf (page 52:  https://www.cdc.gov/nssp/documents/essence-training-presentation-phi-conference.pdf ). The Explain …
  • NSSP-R User Group

    Content Type: Meeting Recordings & Notes

    2024
    • December 2024 (Topic: AI Best Practices) - Recording
    • November 2024 (Topic: rnnsp Shiny apps) -…
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    … Latest and Greatest Features in the Biosense Platform RStudio Workbench) - Recording April 2023 (Topic: Regular … - Recording April 2022 (Topic: Gather feedback, Rnssp Rstudio add-in functionality DEMO) - Recording   (Moving R …
  • Validation of Analytic Methods for Combining Evidence Sources in Biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Recent years' informatics advances have increased availability of various sources of health-monitoring information to agencies responsible for disease surveillance. These sources differ in clinical relevance and reliability, and range from… read more
    … algorithm selection, and hierarchical fusion network training [1]. Subsequent efforts have produced a full … only 39 reported historical events were available for training and calibration of 3 networks designed for fusion … presentation describes advances to formalize the network training, calibrate the component alerting algorithms and …
  • Optimizing Performance of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome

    Content Type: Abstract

    A number of different methods are currently used to classify patients into syndromic groups based on the patient’s chief complaint (CC). We previously reported results using an “Ngram” text processing program for building classifiers… read more
    … AT&T Labs). The method applies the ICD9 classifier to a training set of ED visits for which both the CC and ICD9 … Ngrams), with associated probabilities, from the training data. We then generate a CC classifier from the … AT&T Labs). The method applies the ICD9 classifier to a training set of ED visits for which both the CC and ICD9 …
  • Limb Elephantiasis as Predictor for the Occurrence and Spread of Lymphatic Filariasis in Kano State, Nigeria

    Content Type: Abstract

    Lymphatic filariasis is one of the most prevalent of the tropical diseases, but is also the most neglected.Though significant advances have been made in the understanding both the disease and its control, there is general lack of information about… read more
    … that could be easily diagnosed by persons with minimum training. Therefore, the prevalence of elephantiasis could …
  • Syndromic Surveillance 101 - Module 2: Evaluation of Syndromic Surveillance Data Systems, and Data Analysis

    Content Type: Training

    An Online Training Course ISDS, in partnership with the Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Health Care Institute, has created an online course in syndromic surveillance. This program is designed to increase knowledge and foster… read more
    … An Online Training Course ISDS, in partnership with the Tufts … practitioners new to syndromic surveillance. This training is divided into four one-hour, self-paced modules …