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  • Substance Abuse Among Youth in Miami-Dade County, 2005-2007

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    The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 9th to 12th graders in Miami-Dade County public schools found that 69.7% of students tried alcohol, 28.3% tried marijuana, and 6.3% tried cocaine in their lifetime. Results also showed that… read more
    … among teens (10 – 19 years) with an average cost per visit of $17,621. There was no difference in the number of …
  • Operational Considerations and Early Successes with a Statewide Public Health Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2004, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to begin collecting syndromic data from 14 ED’s to monitor bioterrorism-related events and other public health emergencies. Today, Indiana’s public… read more
    … deadly tornado struck southern Indiana in 2005. As the ED visit volumes climbed, no false alerts were triggered for …
  • Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI Syndrome

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense project has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub-syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. This has the potential to… read more
    … was possibly infectious in origin. We did not count the visit within a GI sub-syndrome if another specific etiology …
  • Privacy Protection versus Cluster Detection in Spatial Epidemiology

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    With the widespread deployment of near real time population health monitoring, there is increasing focus on spatial cluster detection for identifying disease outbreaks. These spatial epidemiologic methods rely on knowledge of patient location to… read more
    … tions, significant clusters contained fewer additional ED visit points (i.e., points that were not part of the …
  • Arizona's Near Real Time School-based Syndromic Surveillance Program

    Content Type: Abstract

    1) Describe a near real-time school-based syndromic surveillance program that integrates electronic data records and a two-way health alert system for early outbreak detection, notification, and possible intervention for Arizona schools. 2)… read more
    … submitted approximately 1.6 mil- lion school nurse visit records via the SSSP. ILI and influenza data from …
  • Automated Detection of GI Syndrome using Structured and Non-Structured Data from the VA EMR

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    Objective We performed a gold-standard manual chart review for gastro-intestinal syndrome to evaluate automated detection models based on both structured and non-structured data extracted from the VA … read more
    … Additionally, we searched for documentation on the index visit day of fever > 37.8ºC. RESULTS The ESSENCE and …
  • Identifying Categories of Over-the-Counter Products with Superior Outbreak Detection Performance

    Content Type: Abstract

    A significant research topic in biosurveillance is how to group individual events—such as single emergency department (ED) visits and sales of over-thecounter healthcare (OTC) products—into counts of “similar” events. For OTC products, the goal is… read more
    … data and applied it to OTC product sales data and ED ILI visit data in southwest- ern PA. The dataset of OTC sales …
  • Learning Outbreak Regions for Bayesian Spatial Biosurveillance

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    This work incorporates model learning into a Bayesian framework for outbreak detection. Our method learns the spatial characteristics of each outbreak type from a small number of labeled training examples, assuming a generative outbreak model with… read more
    … outbreaks injected into real-world Emergency Department visit data from Allegheny County, PA. In the simulations …