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  • Can Internet Searches Provide Useful Data For Public Health Surveillance?

    Content Type: Abstract

     Internet-based technologies have been used to assist in disease surveillance and reporting.  The Public Health Agency of Canada operates the Global Public Health Information Network, credited with early notification of many outbreaks (… read more
    … ). An innovative web-based forum ( www.RUsick2.msu.edu ) collects foodborne illness reports … internet media sources such as news wires and web pages(www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/media/nr-rp/2004/2004_gphin- … recently released “Google Trends” application (www.google.com/trends) uses a sample of Google web searches to show the …
  • ESSENCE: Free Text Query Negation

    Content Type: Training

    Free text queries are performed by ESSENCE users very often. And increasingly, those free text queries are incorporating negation terms that allow the users to find case definitions when certain terms are not present. This video attempts to explain… read more
    … can be seen in the ESSENCE Q and A webinar here:  https://www.surveillancerepository.org/essence-q-v20 . View the … can be seen in the ESSENCE Q and A webinar here:  https://www.surveillancerepository.org/essence-q-v20 . …
  • Evaluation of Preprocessing Techniques for Chief Complaint Classification

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance system collects chief complaints as free text and uses a naïve Bayesian classifier called CoCo to classify the complaints into syndromic categories. CoCo 3.0 has been trained on 28,990 manually clas-… read more
    … clas-sified chief complaints. The free text chief com-plaints are challenging to work with, due to problems … clas- sified chief complaints. The free text chief com- plaints are challenging to work with, due to problems … is a statistical classifier, CoCo was already trained to cor- rectly classify the misspellings and abbreviations in …
  • Online Reports of Foodborne Illness Capture Foods Implicated in Official Foodborne Outbreak Reports

    Content Type: Abstract

    Traditional surveillance systems only capture a fraction of the estimated 48 million yearly cases of foodborne illness in the United States due to few affected individuals seeking medical care and lack of reporting to appropriate authorities. Non-… read more
    … Objective We assessed whether foodservice reviews on Yelp.com (a business review site) can be used to support … Objective We assessed whether foodservice reviews on Yelp.com (a business review site) can be used to support …
  • An introduction to leaflet maps in R

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented September 19, 2017.  The main goal of this talk is to demonstrate map making in R using leaflet. We will cover trivial and non-trivial examples. I use the data.table package as my default data container and for all data… read more
    … project and code is available online at https://github.com/geneorama/wnv_map_demo/ .  If you have questions with … for myself when I need to make a map. https://github.com/geneorama/wnv_map_demo Main topics for today Data … / Create a background: https://www.mapbox.com / Tile Examples wnv_trap_map/20_Map_dev_v1.R …
  • Vetsyn: Veterinary Syndromic Surveillance Streamlined into one R Package

    Content Type: Abstract

    To describe an R package that was designed to provide ready implementation of veterinary syndromic surveillance systems, from classified data to the generation of alerts and an html interface. Introduction Introduction The field of veterinary… read more
    … have been made available in an R package (https:// github.com/nandadorea/vetsyn). We aim to demonstrate the utility … have been made available in an R package (https:// github.com/nandadorea/vetsyn). We aim to demonstrate the utility …
  • Can We Use Syndromic Surveillance Data to Identify Primary Care Visits to NYC EDs?

    Content Type: Abstract

    NYC EDs saw nearly 4 million visits in 2011. Studies have demon- strated that non-urgent visits can account for more than 50% of vis- its to EDs. Designed to provide rapid diagnosis and first-line treatment of serious illness, EDs often function as… read more
    … develop a syndrome classification based on patient chief com- plaint to (1) estimate the proportion of primary … develop a syndrome classification based on patient chief com- plaint to (1) estimate the proportion of primary …
  • Fact Sheet: Naloxone Access and Overdose Good Samaritan Law in Ohio

    Content Type: References

    This fact sheet, developed by the Network for Public Health Law and published August 29, 2018, summarizes Ohio's laws to combat the opioid overdose crisis. Read more about this resource at … read more