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Modeling Disease Surveillance and Assessing its Effectiveness for Detection of Acute Respiratory Outbreaks in Resource-Limited Settings
Content Type: Abstract
A U.S. Department of Defense program is underway to assess health surveillance in resource-poor settings and to evaluate the Early Warning Outbreak Reporting System. This program has included several information-gathering trips,… read more… 2006. Objective This modeling effort will provide guidance for policy and planning decisions in developing … System Objective This modeling effort will provide guidance for policy and planning decisions in developing … 2006. Objective This modeling effort will provide guidance for policy and planning decisions in developing … -
Data for Health Surveillance
Content Type: Presentation Slides
Presented December 6, 2016 Amy Ising presented these slides during the ISDS Pre-Conference Workshop as part of the 2016 ISDS Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This presentation provices an introduction to Syndromic Surveillance, an overview… read more… elements involved in the analysis, sample use cases, and guidance on presenting syndromic surveillance data to … slides here Thursday, December 1, 2016 - 12:00 Document ISDS 2016 Pre Conference Track 1 Session 1 … increased drastically. This means that physicians need to document in much greater detail than they had to previously … -
CDC Benzodiazepine v1
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected benzodiazepine overdoses. How it was developed:… read more… CDC Benzodiazepine Syndrome Definition v1 - Guidance Document ,^[;/ ]969.4[;/ ]^,or,^[;/]9694[;/]^, or,^[;/ … CDC Benzodiazepine Syndrome Definition v1 - Guidance Document … -
Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 2+
Content Type: Report
A planning team that included staff from ISDS, ASTHO, and Charlie Ishikawa of Ishikawa Associates, LLC created and implemented the HHS Region 2+ workshop. Charlie led the workshop facilitation and design of workshop artifacts. The workshop… read more… in identifying their learning needs and methods with guidance by a facilitator. Using a limited emergency … condition of interest. Participants then identify and document their perceived benefits and barriers to SyS data … in identifying their learning needs and methods with guidance by a facilitator. Using a limited emergency … -
Finding medically unexplained symptoms within VA clinical documents using v3NLP
Content Type: Abstract
Pro-WATCH (protecting war fighters using algorithms for text processing to capture health events), a syndromic surveillance project for veterans of operation enduring freedom (OEF)/operation Iraqi freedom (OIF), includes a task to identify medically… read more… being customized to identify symptoms within VA clinical documents, and then refined to assign duration. The … symptoms and the aggregation of this information across documents by patient’s is not addressed here. Objective … currently in development to find duration assertions. Document … -
FL's County Health Department Epidemiology Hurricane Toolkit
Content Type: Training
The Florida County Health Department Epidemiology Hurricane Toolkit, developed by the Florida Department of Health, helps county health departments (CHD)… read more… response will differ, based on needs. The toolkit offers guidance on the following topics: CHD response activities … Surveillance Outbreak response Infection control guidance CHD Epidemiology Hurricane Toolkit 2020 Submitted … response will differ, based on needs. The toolkit offers guidance on the following topics: CHD response activities … -
National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) Implementation Plan for ESSENCE and SAS Addendum 1 - 2/23/16 Draft
Content Type: Report
This document is the 1st Addendum to the NSSP Implementation Plan for ESSENCE and SAS. The addendum provides a… read more… This document is the 1 st Addendum to the NSSP Implementation … This document is the 1 st Addendum to the NSSP Implementation … -
Heat Related Illness v2
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for heat-related illness.Definition description: The Heat… read more… syntax. The guide, Heat-Related Illness Syndrome Query: A Guidance Document for Implementing Heat-Related Illness Syndromic … HOT^,OR,^W92^,),) nssp@cdc.gov, climateandhealth@cdc.gov Document Heat Related Illness v2 + VA Definition.pdf … guide, Heat- Related Illness Syndrome Query: A Guidance Document for Implementing Heat-Related Illness Syndromic …