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  • NSSP’s Master Facility Table (MFT) Module Overview

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented July 25, 2018. The NSSP team is excited to share our progress towards adding the Master Facility Table (MFT) as a module to the BioSense Platform’s Access and Management Center, or AMC. The addition of the MFT module gives you, as a… read more
    … however, a technical glitch lets an old facility ID value come through. The site administrator wants to convert this … contact CDC 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636) TTY: 1-888-232-6348 www.cdc.gov The findings and conclusions in this report are …
  • MERS Syndromic Surveillance Guidance Review

    Content Type: Webinar

    Please join ISDS and CDC for an information webinar related to syndromic surveillance of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the US.On May 2, 2014, the first U.S. imported case of MERS was confirmed in Indiana.  Guidance was recently… read more
  • Analysis of Zero-Inflated and Overdispersed Time Series: An Application to Syphilis Surveillance in the United States

    Content Type: Abstract

    Time series data involving counts are frequently encountered in many biomedical and public health applications. For example, in disease surveillance, the occurrence of rare infections over time is often monitored by public health officials, and the… read more
    … data in the United States from 1995 to 2009 (http:// www.cdc.gov/mmwr/). During the study period, a high propor- …
  • Surveillance of Heat-Related Illness Among Pinal County Residents in Arizona

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Extreme heat events caused by high environmental temperatures are considered a major cause of weather-related deaths and injury in the United States. These events can result in a spectrum of conditions known as heat-related illnesses (HRIs), which… read more
    … 2016 HRI syndrome query guidance document: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.cste.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/pdfs2/CSTE_H… . … What You Can Do to Prepare. 2016; Available from https:// www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/pubs/extreme-heat-guidebook.pdf …
  • Evaluation of Microbiology Orders from a Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory as a Potential Data Source for Early Outbreak Detection

    Content Type: Abstract

    Animals continue to be recognized as a potential source of surveillance data for detecting emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism preparedness, pandemic influenza preparedness, and detection of other zoonotic diseases. Detection of disease… read more
    … and other data populate data repositories at the IDEXX cor- porate office at the time of record creation. Other … (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/epi- info/). We determined the frequency of … seasonal change (34), Ŷt = α + βtt + βs sin(2πt/52) + βc cos(2π t/52), [2] where a is the intercept value, βt is the …
  • What Happens in Vegas, Doesn’t Stay in Vegas: Traveling Waves of Influenza in the US Elderly Population, 1991-2004

    Content Type: Abstract

    Influenza is a significant public health problems in the US leading to over one million hospitalizations in the elderly population (age 65 and over) annually. While influenza preparedness is an important public health issue, previous… read more
    … for susceptible populations. REFERENCES 1Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, Brammer L, Bridges CB, Cox NJ, Fukada K. Influenza-associated hospitalizations in …
  • Support Vector Machines for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Early and reliable detection of anomalies is a critical challenge in disease surveillance. Most surveillance systems collect data from multiple data streams but the majority of monitoring is performed at univariate time series… read more
    … METHOD At a high level our anomaly detection approach con- sists of: 1) Learning the model of normalcy; 2) De- … in Kernel Methods: Support Vector Learning”, MIT Press, Cam- bridge, MA, 1999. [3] Burkom H., Elbert Y., Magruder …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 3 - Legacy Data Conversion and Transition Plan

    Content Type: Webinar

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is conducting a three-part webinar series to describe how data will flow to the BioSense Platform. This comprehensive series explores how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE… read more
    … (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348 Visit: hQp://www.cdc.gov | Contact CDC at: 1-800-CDC-INFO or hQp://www.cdc.gov/info The findings and conclusions in this report …