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  • Fact Sheet: Declared States of Emergency - Opioid Crisis

    Content Type: References

    High rates of morbidity and mortality among Americans related to opioid use constitute a public health epidemic, leading multiple jurisdictions to declare formal states of emergency or public health emergency. Declaring a state of emergency grants… read more
    … information. For more information about the resource, visit  … information. For more information about the resource, visit  …
  • Exploring the Value of Learned Representations for Automated Syndromic Definitions

    Content Type: Abstract

    Comprehensive medical syndrome definitions are critical for outbreak investigation, disease trend monitoring, and public health surveillance. However, because current definitions are based on keyword string-matching, they may miss important… read more
    … of these ICD codes found in emergency department (ED) visit records. The resulting representations capture … of these ICD codes found in emergency department (ED) visit records. The resulting representations capture …
  • Utility of Natural Language Processing for Clinical Quality Measures Reporting

    Content Type: Abstract

    Clinical quality measures (CQMs) are tools that help measure and track the quality of health care services. Measuring and reporting CQMs helps to ensure that our health care system is delivering effective, safe, efficient, patient-centered,… read more
    … percentage of patients aged 6 months and older seen for a visit between October 1 and March 31 who received (or … percentage of patients aged 6 months and older seen for a visit between October 1 and March 31 who received (or …
  • Negation Processing in Free Text Emergency Department Data for Public Health Surveillance

    Content Type: Use Case

    Materials associated with the Analytic Solutions for Real-Time Biosurveillance: Negation Processing in Free Text Emergency Department Data for Public Health Surveillance consultancy held January 19-20, 2017 at the University of Utah, Salt Lake… read more
    … cannot properly identify negated terms. For example, a visit is classified into a fever syndrome when the chief … appear, however, when negation is complex and/or doesn’t follow set rules.  In addition, some EHRs are generating … cannot properly identify negated terms. For example, a visit is classified into a fever syndrome when the chief …
  • Estimation And Validation of An Outbreak Simulator

    Content Type: Abstract

    In previous work, we described a non-disease-specific outbreak simulator for the evaluation of outbreak detection algorithms. This Template-Driven Simulator generates disease patterns using user-defined template functions.… read more
    … anthrax cases. The home census block group and time of visit to an emergency department are available for each … anthrax cases. The home census block group and time of visit to an emergency de- partment are available for each … (1) For each case, BARD simulates emergency depart- ment visit times using a convolution of two log- normal …
  • Improvement in Performance of Ngram Classifiers with Frequent Updates

    Content Type: Abstract

      Syndromic surveillance of emergency department(ED) visit data is often based on computerized classifiers which assign patient chief complaints (CC) tosyndromes. These classifiers may need to be updatedperiodically to account for changes… read more
    …   Syndromic surveillance of emergency department(ED) visit data is often based on computerized classifiers which … Syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) visit data is often based on computerized classi- fiers …   Syndromic surveillance of emergency department(ED) visit data is often based on computerized classifiers which …
  • Informing Public Health Prevention in NC Using Falls Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Falls are a leading cause of fatal and nonfatal injury in NC. As the size of the older adult population is predicted to increase over the next few decades, it is likely that the incidence of falls-related morbidity and mortality will increase in… read more
    … hospital discharge, and emergency department (ED) visit data, to inform falls prevention activities in North … hospital discharge, and emergency department (ED) visit data, to inform falls prevention activities in North …
  • Carbon Monoxide Poisoning during Hurricane Sandy in Affected New York State Counties

    Content Type: Abstract

    CO poisoning is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in disaster and post-disaster situations, when widespread power outages most likely occur (1, 2). The NYSDOH Syndromic Surveillance System receives daily ED visit chief complaint data from… read more
    … NYSDOH Syndromic Surveillance System receives daily ED visit chief complaint data from 140 NYS (excluding New York … NYSDOH Syndromic Surveillance System receives daily ED visit chief complaint data from 140 NYS (excluding New York …