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  • CDC Suicide Attempt v2

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Definition Purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in identifying emergency department (ED) visits for suspected suicide attempts. The definition can be used to supplement case-finding using… read more
    … outlined in the Syndrome Definition Committee’s (SDC) guidance on developing, evaluating, and disseminating … outlined in the Syndrome Definition Committee’s (SDC) guidance on developing, evaluating, and disseminating …
  • TN Onboarding Presentation

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides summarize the process in Tennessee for onboarding hospitals' syndromic surveillance data into BioSense.
    … Tonya View the slides here Friday, May 1, 2015 - 12:00 Document …  Health  objec5ves  for  Meaningful  Use   On-­‐Boarding  Guidance   Documents   •  TDH  Meaningful  Use: … Send  TP  message   correcJons  to  be   corrected       Document  what  errors  have  been   corrected  and  send …
  • Extending an Uncertainty Taxonomy for Suspected Pneumonia Case Review

    Content Type: Abstract

    Natural language processing algorithms that accurately screen clinical documents for suspected pneumonia must extract and reason about whether these mentions provide evidence that supports, refutes, or represents uncertainty. Our efforts extend… read more
    … processing algorithms that accurately screen clinical documents for suspected pneumonia must extract and reason … processing algorithms that accurately screen clinical documents for suspected pneumonia must extract and reason …
  • A web-based platform to support text mining of clinical reports for public health surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    PyConTextKit is a web-based platform that extracts entities from clinical text and provides relevant metadata - for example, whether the entity is negated or hypothetical - using simple lexical clues occurring in the window of text surrounding the… read more
    … of clinical reports for public health surveillance. Document … of documents to be annotated,management of a lexicon, document annotation using the lexicon,view of annotation results, document classification based on the annotations and summary …
  • Surveillance of Heat-Related Illness Among Pinal County Residents in Arizona

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Extreme heat events caused by high environmental temperatures are considered a major cause of weather-related deaths and injury in the United States. These events can result in a spectrum of conditions known as heat-related illnesses (HRIs), which… read more
    … recommends in their 2016 HRI syndrome query guidance document: … Health Services District Dylan.Kent@pinalcountyaz.gov Document Abstract_2018_01_Enhanced Surveillance of … References 1. Heat-Related Illness Syndrome Query: A Guidance Document For Implementing Heat-Related Illness …
  • Estimated range of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti in the United States, 2017

    Content Type: Report

    CDC has updated the estimated range maps for Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes by using a model that predicts possible geographic ranges for these mosquitoes in the contiguous United States. The model used county-level records, historical… read more
    … dialog.] Summary The checker found no problems in this document. Needs manual check: 0 Passed manually: 2 Failed … 0 Skipped: 1 Passed: 29 Failed: 0 Detailed Report Document Rule Name Status Description Accessibility …
  • Using databases and dplyr to work with data in R

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenter April 30, 2018. The ease with which users can interact with databases in R has drastically improved the ease, convenience, and speed with which users can "talk to" larger datasets than it is possible to hold in memory.  Without… read more
    … assets" in an R toolchain - namely RMarkdown documents and Shiny applications. View the webinar slides … assets" in an R toolchain - namely RMarkdown documents and Shiny applications. …
  • Letter to BioSense Governance Group Re: Recommendations for improving BioSense's data sharing capability

    Content Type: Letter

    This letter was intended to establish a dialogue between surveillance professionals and the BioSense Governance Group. The particiapnts were interested in establishing data sharing relationships across jurisdictions utilizing BioSense… read more
    …     1. A  user  guide  that  provides  practical  guidance  for  using  BioSense  in  practice   (including …  data,  it  would  be  useful  to  have  a     4 short  document  describing  the  jurisdictional  data  and  any …