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  • Mental Illness and Co-morbid Conditions: BioSense 2008 - 2011

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    Understanding the relationship between mental illness and medical comorbidity is an important aspect of public health surveillance. In 2004, an estimated one fourth of the US adults reported having a mental illness in the previous year (1). Studies… read more
    … Mental Illness and Co-morbid Conditions: BioSense 2008 - 2011 …
  • MERS PUI Surveillance and Restrospective Identification in ESSENCE-FL, 2013-2015

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    Human MERS-CoV was first reported in September 2012. Globally, all reported cases have been linked through travel to or residence in the Arabian Peninsula with the exception of cases associated with an outbreak involving multiple health care… read more
    … Human MERS-CoV was first reported in September 2012. Globally, all … of Korea ending in July 2015. While the majority of MERS-CoV cases have been reported in the Arabian Peninsula, … instances of secondary transmission. Two cases of MERS-CoV were exported to the United States and identified in May …
  • Prospective Outbreak Detection in Pets as a Sentinel Indicator for Outbreaks in Humans

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    Sixty-one percent of known disease-causing agents that infect humans can also infect animals [1]. While humans are the primary reservoir for only 3% of zoonoses, detection of zoonotic disease outbreaks remains mostly dependant on the identification… read more
    … Objective This paper describes occurrences of possible co-morbidity in pets and humans discovered in a … Objective This paper describes occurrences of possible co- morbidity in pets and humans discovered in a retro- … Further Information: Loren Shaffer, loren.shaffer@hmsinc.com www.hmsinc.com Advances in Disease Surveillance …
  • Automated Information Integration from Heterogeneous Data Sources: A Semantic Web Approach

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    Integration of information from multiple disparate and heterogeneous sources is a labor and resource intensive task. Heterogeneity can come about in the way data is represented or in the meaning of data in different contexts. Semantic Web… read more
    … is a labor and resource intensive task. Heterogeneity can come about in the way data is represented or in the meaning … is a labor and resource intensive task. Heterogeneity can come about in the way data is represented or in the meaning … is a labor and resource intensive task. Heterogeneity can come about in the way data is represented or in the meaning …
  • Clinical decision support at the time of an e-prescription can sustainably decrease unwarranted use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections

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    Microorganisms resistant to antibiotics (ABX) increase the mortality, morbidity and costs of infections. In the absence of a drug development pipeline that can keep pace with the emerging resistancemechanisms, these organisms are expected… read more
    … are expected to threaten public health for years to come. Because exposure to ABX promotes the development of … are expected to threaten public health for years to come. Because exposure to ABX promotes the development of … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 19 (Figure, upper panel). The CDS did …
  • Benchmark Data Generation from Discrete Event Contact Network Models

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    Historical data are essential for development of detection algorithms. Spatio-temporal data, however, are difficult to come by due to variety of issues concerning patient confidentiality. Several approaches have been used to … read more
    … Spatio-temporal data, however, are difficult to come by due to variety of issues concerning patient … dynamics of an infectious disease within and between con- tact networks in urban settings using real population … Spatio-temporal data, however, are difficult to come by due to variety of issues concerning patient confi- …
  • Mental and Behavioral Health Resources

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    The document includes examples of mental and behavioral health resources at the national, federal, state, and local levels. This list was compiled as a supplement for an… read more
    … Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) https://www.samhsa.gov/find-treatment https://www.cdc.gov/stopoverdose/naloxone/index.html … https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/protective/school_connectedness.htm … https://drugfreeyouthdc.com/ https://dbh.dc.gov/node/309882 …
  • A provincial Acute Febrile Illness Surveillance Network (GAFINet), South Korea

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    In May 2015, the MERS-CoV outbreaks in South Korea was sparkled from a hospital of Gyeonggi-do province. In response to this outbreak, the provincial government and infectious disease control center (GIDCC) initiated an emergency department (ED)… read more
    … In May 2015, the MERS-CoV outbreaks in South Korea was sparkled from a hospital of … had direct or indirect experiences in dealing with MERS-CoV patients. Objective: The objectives are to introduce a … system, which has been initiated in response to the MERS-CoV outbreak of South Korea, and describe findings from …