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  • Syndromic Surveillance Shows Rise in Emergency Department Visits after Case of Ebola

    Content Type: Success Stories

    The first Ebola virus case on American soil was confirmed September 30, 2014, in a 45-year-old man. He had entered the country on September 20, 2014, from Liberia. Feeling ill, he visited a Dallas, Texas, hospital 5 days later where he was released… read more
    … Tarrant County Public Health wfstephens@tarrantcounty.com Document NSSP-Success-Story-TX-Ebola.pdf 6 views … Tarrant County Public Health wfstephens@tarrantcounty.com Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of … Services Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance www.cdc.gov/nssp The National Syndromic Surveillance Program …
  • Syndromic surveillance of influenza-like illness using automated VA data preliminary results from the Idaho infectious disease reporting network

    Content Type: Abstract

    Current influenza-like illness monitoring in Idaho is on the basis of syndromic surveillance using laboratory data, combined with periodic person-to-person reports collected by Idaho state workers. This system relies on voluntary reporting.… read more
    … Pocatello, ID, USA E-mail: William.Weppner@va.gov www.IIDRN.org Objective The objective of this paper is to … basis of syndromic surveillance using laboratory data, com- bined with periodic person-to-person reports collected … Weppner et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 99 References 1 Marsden-Haug N, Foster …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Climate and Health Guidance Document

    Content Type: Report

    In general, data from public health surveillance can be used for short- and long-term planning and response through retrospective data analysis of trends over time or specific events. Combining health outcome data (e.g., hospitalizations or deaths)… read more
    … levels of ozone, particulate matter and carbon dioxide (CO2) • Higher pollen counts with increased allergenicity, … MVCs = motor vehicle crashes, ED = emergency department, CO = Carbon monoxide, CVD = cardiovascular disease When … *monoxide* carbon mono expos *CO poison* carbon monoxide CO2 co exp oxide poisoning c02 Inclusion ICD-9-CM 986, …
  • Improving System Ability to Identify Symptom Complexes in Free-Text Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Text-based syndrome case definitions published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)1 form the basis for the syndrome queries used by the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT). Keywords within these… read more
    … OBJECTIVE This paper describes a novel approach to the con- struction of syndrome queries written in Structured … bioter- rorism-associated agents. Available at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/ surveillance/syndromedef/index.asp. Accessed … SQL Server 2005 Books Online, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library /ms174214.aspx, Accessed June 29, 2006. …
  • National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Data Sharing Workgroup - Report

    Content Type: Report

    This report summarizes a series of Data Sharing Workgroups that occurred in 2014 and 2015. Purpose of the workgroups: To provide community input on topics related to data sharing functionalities in the BioSense platform. Summary of work: The… read more
    … 2.0 (below). Resources: Workgroup Web site: http://www.syndromic.org/cop/nsss-workgroups/data-sharing Nexus Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/biosenseusercommunity/ ! 2 Recommendations for …
  • Graduate-Level Syndromic Surveillance Course, An International Society for Disease Surveillance Project

    Content Type: Abstract

     Following the development of an introductory Continuing Education (CME) course in syndromic surveillance, the Education and Training Committee of the International Society for Disease Surveillance recognized the need to educate future non-… read more
    … 1. http://grad- schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/pu b/search. 2. … m 3. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/registrar/courses/e pi.shtml. 4. http://www.sph.unc.edu/epid/courses_offered_20 0_565.html. 5. http://www.washington.edu/students/crscat/epide m.html. 6. …
  • Mitigating data collection challenges with adaptive frameworks

    Content Type: Abstract

    Electronic disease surveillance systems can be extremely valuable tools; however, a critical step in system implementation is collection of data. Without accurate and complete data, statistical anomalies that are detected hold little… read more
    … A Poku et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 58 for those challenges to define the … for data collection. BMC Proc 2008;2 (Suppl 3):SS. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1753-6561/2/ S3/S5. 2 Ashar R, Lewis S, Blazes DL, …
  • Mitigating data collection challenges with adaptive frameworks

    Content Type: Abstract

    Electronic disease surveillance systems can be extremely valuable tools; however, a critical step in system implementation is collection of data. Without accurate and complete data, statistical anomalies that are detected hold little meaning. Many… read more
    … A Poku et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 58 for those challenges to define the … for data collection. BMC Proc 2008;2 (Suppl 3):SS. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1753-6561/2/ S3/S5. 2 Ashar R, Lewis S, Blazes DL, …