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  • Using the Emergency Medical Text Processor to Standardize Chief Complaints in Boston's Syndromic Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Abbreviation, misspellings, and site specific terminology may misclassify chief complaints syndromes. The Emergency Medical Text Processor (EMT-P) is system that cleans emergency department chief complaints and returns standard terms.… read more
    … system receives daily, de- identified patient-visit data from 10 hospital emer- gency departments in the … ceived every 24 hours, and the chief complaint for each visit is categorized into non-exclusive syndrome groups. … EMT-P on a windows 2003 server with a SQL Server 2005 back- end database. In order to use s same database for the …
  • A Semantic Framework to Improve Interoperability of Malaria Surveillance Systems

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2015, there were 212 million new cases of malaria, and about 429,000 malaria death, worldwide. African countries accounted for almost 90% of global cases of malaria and 92% of malaria deaths. Currently, malaria data are scattered across different… read more
    … to retrieve relevant data in a timely manner. Moreover, lack of rich metadata limits the reusability of data and its … to retrieve relevant data in a timely manner. Moreover, lack of rich metadata limits the reusability of data and its …
  • Validation of SyS Data to Inform Surveillance of Health Disparities in Nebraska

    Content Type: Abstract

    Achieving health equality is a national priority. The surveillance of health disparities in minority populations is key for the advancement of health equality. However, the need for improvement in documentation of race and ethnicity has been… read more
    … various public health data sets. Currently, due to the lack of reporting of race and ethnicity in HDD, the NDHHS … various public health data sets. Currently, due to the lack of reporting of race and ethnicity in HDD, the NDHHS …
  • Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance in Michigan: Routine Analysis and Beyond

    Content Type: Training

    This presentation shared by Michigan covers the introductory basics of syndromic surveillance. This is a part of a web based training that new users have to complete before getting access to the surveillance system in Michigan. 
    … Each message consists of: Patient age, sex, home ZIP code Visit date and time Data exchange and acknowledgement … age, sex, home zip code along with data specific to the visit like visit date and time, facility and words used in the chief …
  • Heat-related Illness - CSTE Heat Workgroup

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This definition is based the following document created by the CSTE Heat Workgroup: Heat-related Illness Syndrome Query: A guidance Document for Implementing Heat-related Illness Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice (attached). The query… read more
    … HIP OR GROIN OR THIGH OR KNEE OR ANKLE OR FOOT OR FEET OR BACK OR NECK OR FLANK OR RED OR JAW OR MOUTH OR TEETH OR … OR TRIED OR USED OR USING OR COLD OR RASH ) ) OR HEAT PACK OR HEATING PAD OR LUMBAGO OR RELIEF OR RESOLVE OR … OR,^KNEE^, OR,^ANKLE^, OR,^FOOT^, OR,^FEET^, OR,^BACK^, OR,^NECK^, OR,^FLANK^, OR,^RED^, OR,^JAW^, …
  • Making the Best Use of Textual ED Data for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    In this webinar Dr. Travers will review two tools developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which aid in processing textual CC’s and triage notes in support of syndromic surveillance. Textual data from emergency departments… read more
    … Chief Complaints •Challenges •Tool developed at UNC A Visit to the ED Chief Complaints- Influenza Chief Complaint: … Yellow sputum. Respiratory Fever Rash on chest, spread to back, abd & neck. Fever today with back pain. Aches. Fever …
  • Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 1

    Content Type: Report

    Surveillance professionals from six states and one local public health agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 1 planned and attended the 2-day Workshop. Workshop attendees elected to explore how data sharing can… read more
    … plan for continuing regional collaboration. Includes follow-up meeting on 3/17/2014. Region 1 Data Sharing … • Access to syndromic surveillance emergency department visit data; and • The tools necessary to prepare, analyze, … the blank  IT at participating hospitals  Personality  Lack of experience  Time (competing priorities)  Legal …
  • Using Change Point Detection for Monitoring the Quality of Aggregate Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Data consisting of counts or indicators aggregated from multiple sources pose particular problems for data quality monitoring when the users of the aggregate data are blind to the individual sources. This arises when agencies wish to share data but… read more
    … changes in the source make up of the reporting sites and lack of data timeliness due to individual site data accruing … changes in the source make up of the reporting sites and lack of data timeliness due to individual site data accruing …