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  • Syndromic Surveillance Based on Emergency Visits: A Reactive Tool for Unusual Events Detection

    Content Type: Abstract

    The late health events such as the heat wave of 2003 showed the need to make public health surveillance evolve in France. Thus, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance has developed syndromic surveillance systems based on several… read more
    … Syndromic Surveillance Based on Emergency Visits: A Reactive Tool for Unusual Events Detection …
  • Weather Outlook: Cloudy with a Chance of...— Classification of Storm-Related ED Visits

    Content Type: Abstract

    Hurricane ‘Superstorm’ Sandy struck New Jersey on October 29, 2012, causing harm to the health of New Jersey residents and billions of dollars of damage to businesses, transportation, and infrastructure. Monitoring health outcomes for increased… read more
    … with a Chance of...— Classification of Storm-Related ED Visits …
  • Increased emergency department presentations for head trauma following media coverage of a fatal epidural hematoma

    Content Type: Abstract

    Previous reports have demonstrated the media’s influence on ED visits in situations such as dramatized acetaminophen overdose, media report of celebrity suicides, television public announcements for early stroke care and cardiac visits following… read more
    … reports have demonstrated the media’s influence on ED visits in situations such as dramatized acetaminophen … public announcements for early stroke care and cardiac visits following President Clinton’s heart surgery. No … the influence of media-publicized trauma on ED visits. On 16 March 2009, the actress Natasha Richardson …
  • Enhancing Nebraska's Rabies Surveillance using Electronic Public Health Cases Reports and ESSENCE

    Content Type: Case Study

    Accurate and timely reporting of animal rabies test results and potential human exposures is necessary to guide case management and define rabies epidemiology. Accordingly, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS) collaborated with… read more
    … Prior to 2013, authorized tests were requisitioned via phone calls to NDHHS from persons submitting specimens. … Prior to 2013, authorized tests were requisitioned via phone calls to NDHHS from persons submitting specimens. … exposure-related data captured during test requisition phone calls were subsequently entered (manually) by NDHHS …
  • Enhanced Animal Surveillance for Super Bowl XLIX in Maricopa County, Arizona, 2015

    Content Type: Case Study

    From December 2014 to February 2015, Maricopa County, Arizona was the host site for several high profile events, including Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl. Public health officials were allocated with implementing numerous enhanced surveillance… read more
    … Bowl through email updates, teleconferences and daily phone calls. Ayala Aurimar Levy Craig no Public View the … Bowl through email updates, teleconferences and daily phone calls. ACTION TAKEN (500 word maximum) Describe how … connected through emails, teleconferences and bi-daily phone calls/check-ins which occurred during the days before, …
  • Syndromic Surveillance for Influenza in Washington State: A Local and Regional Perspective

    Content Type: Abstract

    We explored the utility of tracking emergency department (ED) visits for febrile illness as a proxy for influenza surveillance, from both a local and a regional perspective.
    … the utility of tracking emergency department (ED) visits for febrile illness as a proxy for influenza … the utility of tracking emergency de- partment (ED) visits for febrile illness as a proxy for influenza … There was a strong correlation between weekly ED fever visit counts and positive flu isolates, both for the region …
  • Potential elimination of rabies from Pemba Island, Tanzania

    Content Type: Case Study

    A mobile phone-based surveillance system to support the rabies control program is currently in use across southern Tanzania and was implemented in Pemba since 2011. The system allows for near real-time reporting of information on: patients with… read more
    … A mobile phone-based surveillance system to support the rabies … of the collaborators and the data sources used. A mobile phone-based surveillance system to support the rabies … A mobile phone-based surveillance system to support the rabies …
  • Could Outpatient Visits Enhance Our Ability of Early Detecting Influenza-Like Illness Outbreaks?

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes HHC outpatient data and evaluates the performance for early influenza-like illness (ILI) outbreak detection. We compare its detection ability to that of the emergency department (ED) data and of the two data sources… read more
    … Could Outpatient Visits Enhance Our Ability of Early Detecting Influenza-Like …