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  • Automated Surveillance To Detect An Influenza Epidemic: Which Respiratory Syndrome Should We Monitor?

    Content Type: Abstract

    OBJECTIVE Syndromic surveillance systems (SSS) seek early detection of infectious diseases outbreaks by focusing on pre-diagnostic symptoms. We do not yet know which respiratory syndrome should be monitored for a SSS to discover… read more
    … week of the study year. To distinguish between true- and back- ground-positive alarms, the daily statistics were per- formed on paired background+injection vs. back- ground-only time series. We computed two bench- marks: …
  • Application of Natural Language Parsers To Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes a methodology for applying natural language parsing (NLP) technologies, originally developed for analyzing biomedical journal articles, to the monitoring of emergency department patient charts for infectious diseases of interest.
    … and concepts. To overcome a limitation of MMTx – namely lack of negation detection – GUARDIANTM also uses NegEx6. … medical journal articles3,4,5,6; however, patient charts lack the same editorial process and thus commonly exhibit …
  • The Use of Rapid Diagnostic Assays to Supplement Syndromic Surveillance: Preliminary Results of a Pilot Project in New York City

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance systems can detect increases in respiratory and gastrointestinal illness, but diagnosis of etiologic agents can be delayed due to difficult, time-consuming identification and low rates of testing for viral pathogens. Rapid… read more
    … difficult. The pace of clinical care within the ED, the lack of dedicated clinical staff, and the perceived lack of benefit of the testing to clinical care resulted in …
  • Recursive Least Squares Prediction of Syndromic Data for Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes a method to predict syndromic data for surveillance of public health using the method of recursive least squares and a new method of correcting for the day of week effect in order to have a prediction of… read more
    … interested in using the above method for predicting a “back- ground” from a single syndromic data channel. A major … obtained. Adaptively corrected data are used to predict “back- ground” counts. RESULTS The new integrated method is …
  • Acute Hepatitis B v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: Created by the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) for use with ED data as part of the rapid reportables project, which seeks to create queries for all National Notifiable Diseases defined by the… read more
    … future. This query is intended to be narrow and capture visits with specific terms to support greater monitoring and … hepatitis B-related chief complaint free-text terms: The visit is included if it contains: Chief complaints related … future. This query is intended to be narrow and capture visits with specific terms to support greater monitoring and …
  • Mapping Tool between two code sets: ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS

    Content Type: Webinar

    Join ISDS on June 3rd for an instructional webinar on ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS mapping tools, including the newly released MapIt tool. This tool, which was developed by AHRQ and CDC, is an automated mapping tool that utilizes General Equivalence… read more
    … RB>Map> L89.100> Pressure>ulcer,>unstageable,>unspec.>back> RB>Map> L89.110> Pressure>ulcer,>unstageable,>rt.upper>back> RB>Map> L89.120> Pressure>ulcer,>unstageable,>lt.upper>back> RB>Map> L89.130> Pressure>ulcer,>unstageable,>rt.lower>back> RB>Map> L89.140> …
  • One Health Concept: Building educational and translation research capacity of graduate and post-graduate students in India

    Content Type: Case Study

    Food safety is a global issue with diverse challenges along various critical points in the food production chain. In India, food safety programs including establishment of surveillance programs and quantitative approaches through integration of… read more
    … man power to expand the workforce. The weak link was lack of logistic support such as relieving workforce for … activities, allocation of budget for fresh recruitment, lack of adequate staff in laboratories to perform sampling …
  • Standard Operation Procedures for Three Syndromic Surveillance Systems in Washoe County, Nevada - A Local Perspective

    Content Type: Abstract

    Washoe County District Health Department (WCDHD) is a local health district serving nearly 400,000 residents in Washoe County including cities of Reno and Sparks, the second largest urban area in Nevada. To enhance overall public health surveillance… read more
    … date, current users, URL if web-based, default and back-up manager, manager’s responsibilities, and overview of … system developers. Step 3-8 also includes default and back-up responsible persons. CONCLUSIONS Although this …