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  • Understanding the Dynamics of Gastro-Intestinal Syndrome: General Practioner and Hospital Data vs Laboratory Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Objective Understanding the baseline dynamics of syndrome counts is essential for use in prospective syndromic surveillance. Therefore we studied to what extent the known seasonal dynamics of gastro-intestinal (GI… read more
    … GI syndrome in general practitioner and hospital data.   Document … using the CDC syndrome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance. Trends in positive diagnoses of known GI pathogens …
  • Utilizing a Patient Tracking System for Public Health Emergencies

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2003, the need for a system to track and manage patient status and location was identified by Boston Emergency Medical Services (Boston EMS) and the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals. After consultation with EMS (… read more
    … information needs during public health emergencies. Document … was facilitated by the parameters set in the PHIN document. Stakeholders worked closely with system developers …
  • Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina

    Content Type: Abstract

    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the early event detection system that serves public health users across North Carolina. One important data source for this system is North… read more
    … Katrina evacuees’ hospital visits in North Carolina. Document … results of each report were exported into an electronic document, which was emailed to staff at the DPH. This report …
  • Respiratory Syndrome in the Netherlands in Relation to Pathogen Activity

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance may be suited for detection of emerging respiratory disease elevations that could pass undiagnosed. The syndromes under surveillance should then retrospectively reflect known respiratory pathogen activity. To validate this for… read more
    … by the seasonal dynamics of common respiratory pathogens. Document … data using the CDC syndrome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance. Time series of respiratory pathogens (Respiratory …
  • Using NC DETECT Summary Reports to Share Syndromic Information

    Content Type: Abstract

    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) provides early event detection and public health situational awareness to hospital-based and public health users statewide. Authorized users are currently able… read more
    … efficiency of sharing syndromic information statewide. Document … reports in NC DETECT allow epidemi- ologists to document the follow-up conducted on syndrome-based … as laboratory data. New interfaces will allow users to document lab results about respiratory illnesses, in- …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 3 - Legacy Data Conversion and Transition Plan

    Content Type: Webinar

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is conducting a three-part webinar series to describe how data will flow to the BioSense Platform. This comprehensive series explores how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE… read more
    … Scientist, CDC Max Worlund,  ICF Lindsay Brown,  Deloitte Document Biosense_Platform_Dataflow_Part3_Slides.pdf … … DEVELOPMENT ü  Create baseline Master Facility Tables ü  Document new data flow ü  Document ESSENCE seLngs ü  …
  • Syndromic Surveillance for Detection of Increased Morbidity and Mortality by Influenza

    Content Type: Abstract

    To evaluate whether a rise or shift in severe morbidity and mortality by influenza can be detected with syndromic surveillance.
    … by influenza can be detected with syndromic surveillance. Document … data using the CDC syn- drome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance. We plotted the counts of the hospital syndrome, …
  • Automatic Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) New Monitoring and Classification

    Content Type: Abstract

    Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most devastating diseases of farm animals. There is a critical need for countries to have a global FMD situational awareness. Monitoring the online news sources for FMD-related news… read more
    … at the University of Arizona and the FMD Lab at UC Davis. Document … medical domain. Pant created a topical spider to get a document collection which can help to locate relevant … filters out the FMD news from the large collection of documents retrieved by our spiders. Then the news articles …