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  • Free-Text Mining to Improve Syndrome Definition Matching Across Emergency Departments

    Content Type: Abstract

    Standard syndrome definitions for ED visits in ESSENCE rely on chief complaints. Visits with more words in the chief complaint field are more likely to match syndrome definitions. While using ESSENCE, we observed geographic differences in chief… read more
    … We hypothesized that chief complaint and diagnosis code co-occurrence among ED visits to facilities with long chief … We hypothesized that chief complaint and diagnosis code co-occurrence among ED visits to facilities with long chief …
  • Applications of Bayesian Statistics for Biosurveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    For its January 2010 meeting, the ISDS Research Committee hosted a topical webinar on the "Applications of Bayesian Statistics for Biosurveillance," to address questions including:
    1. How can I combine recent trends with historical data…
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    … ‘Disease surveillance using a hidden Markov model’ www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/9/39 Thank you …
  • Monitoring winter-seasonal acute gastroenteritis emergency department visits by age

    Content Type: Abstract

    Epidemic acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a major contributor to the global burden of morbidity and mortality. Rotavirus and norovirus epidemics present a significant burden annually, with their predominant impact in temperate climates occurring… read more
    … for defeating rotavirus. Sci Am. 2006;294: 46�55. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16596879. 2. Lopman BA, Hall AJ, … 1996�2007. Clin Infect Dis. 2011;52: 466�74. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21258098. 3. Tate JE, Cortese … Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2011;30(1 Suppl):S56�60. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21183842. 4. Olson DR, Paladini …
  • Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance System Evaluation, Ebonyi State Nigeria, 2017

    Content Type: Abstract

    Nigeria is one of the three countries in the world with ongoing wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission, alongside Afghanistan and Pakistan. Nigeria also experiences outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2). Following the… read more
    … 2016 [cited 2017 Oct 13]; Available from: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2016/nigeria-polio/en/ … Organization; 2015 [cited 2017 Feb 9]. Available from: www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/nigeria-polio/en/ … standards/en// *Izuchukwu F. Obi E-mail: obifrank03@gmail.com …
  • BioSINE: an intuitive visualization tool to enhance collaboration between research and practice in disease surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Funded by the Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, we developed the BioSINE toolset to provide visualization and collaboration capabilities to improve the accessibility and utility of health surveillance… read more
    … Grumman Corp., Atlanta, GA, USA E-mail: ppicciano@aptima.com Objective BioSINE strives to improve situational … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 56 Results Users were quite successful … Health Threats Journal P Picciano et al. 2011, 4:s106 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 57 …
  • Developing an application ontology for mining clinical reports: the extended syndromic surveillance ontology

    Content Type: Abstract

    Ontologies representing knowledge from the public health and surveillance domains currently exist. However, they focus on infectious diseases (infectious disease ontology), reportable diseases (PHSkbFretired) and internet surveillance… read more
    … Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: michaelambroseconway@gmail.com Objective To develop an application ontologyFthe … Conway et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 15 radiology finding). Further, these … Health Threats Journal M Conway et al. 2011, 4:s73 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 16 …
  • EpiSentry: simulation-based threat identification, response management and decision support for outbreaks and pandemics

    Content Type: Abstract

    The 2009 H1N1 novel flu pandemic demonstrates how a rapidly spreading, contagious illness can affect the world’s population in multiple ways including health, economics, education, transportation, and national security. Pandemic … read more
    … IS&GS, Lansdale, PA, USA E-mail: david.w.mazeroski@lmco.com Objective Traditional real time surveillance systems … licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 56 outbreaks. It will provide an … Journal DW Mazeroski and T Arthur-Hartranft. 2011, 4:s139 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 57 …
  • Using Twitter to estimate H1N1 influenza activity

    Content Type: Abstract

    Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its millions of users to send and read each other’s ‘tweets’, or short messages limited to 140 characters. The service has more than 190 million registered users and… read more
    … by the numbers. O’Reilly Radar, http://radar. oreilly.com/2010/04/twitter-by-the-numbers.html, 14 April 2010 … of Influenza Surveillance in the United States, http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/ fluactivity.htm (accessed 15 August … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 83 …