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  • Multi-Sectored Approach to Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more
    … by the Public Health Agency of Canada [1] with additional guidance pro- vided by the Centers for Disease Control and …
  • North Texas School Health Surveillance: First-Year Progress and Next Steps

    Content Type: Abstract

    Recognizing the threat of pandemic influenza and new or emerging disease such as SARS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that schools work in partnership with their local health departments “to develop a surveillance… read more
    … report that is the basis for this presentation5 follows guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
  • Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition

    Content Type: Abstract

    In North Carolina, select hospital emergency departments have been submitting data since 2003 for use in syndromic surveillance. These data are collected, stored, and parsed into syndrome categories by the North Carolina… read more
    … its ability to capture the appropriate syndromic cases. Document … derived case definition terms from the consensus document text description of smallpox and modified these …
  • Identifying Syndromic Fingerprints in Reason Fields in Emergency Department or Telehealth Records using N-grams for Similarity Analysis

    Content Type: Abstract

    An N-gram is a sub-sequence of n items from a given sequence where n can be 1, 2,…, n and the items can be letters or words. N-gram models are widely used in statistical natural language processing [3]. In the syndromic surveillance context, N-grams… read more
    … that these fingerprints are valuable for classification. Document … Text categori- sation”, Proceedings of Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, Las Vegas, NV. …
  • 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
    … use of the results for further epidemiological studies. Document … for Rapid Mapping of Bancroftian Filariasis in Africa. Document WGO/CDS/CPE/CEE/2000.9. Geneva: WHO. Advances in …
  • 2018 NSSP CoP Member Satisfaction Assessment Results

    Content Type: Report

    The intent of the National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP) is to support open and dynamic participation of any… read more
    … call information, webinars, and work on collaborative documents) and to connect with other NSSP Community of … The NSSP CoP Steering Committee provided instrumental guidance throughout all stages of the project. This included … practice. The CDC may also use this information to inform guidance and technical assistance activities in support of …
  • Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides were presented at the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview Partner meeting, led by CDC and organized by ASTHO in March of 2019.  Presenters Puja Seth, PhD – Lead, Epidemiology… read more
    … for large variance in text entries and coding ▪ National guidance – National definition will provide a good starting place – Guidance to encourage common conceptual definition (e.g., no …
  • BioSense program redesign

    Content Type: Abstract

    The BioSense program’s mission is to support and improve public health surveillance infrastructure and human capacity required to monitor (with minimal lag) critical population health indicators of the scope and severity of acute… read more
    … situational awareness capability. Methods With input and guidance from our local, state, and federal surveillance …