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  • Cognition and Central Nervous System Disability v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: The Cognition and Central Nervous System Disability (v1) definition is part of a group of eight definitions (seven domain-specific and one overall) to identify emergency department visits by people with… read more
    … Surveillance Program (NSSP) Community of Practice (CoP) members to work with disability organizations and … of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)-led NSSP CoP to create diagnostic code-based definitions to identify … Surveillance Program (NSSP) Community of Practice (CoP) members to work with disability organizations and …
  • Finding Chances to Intervene Before the Fatal Overdose: Linking ED and Mortality Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2017, 951 Missouri residents died from an opioid overdose, a record number for the state.1 This continues the trend from 2016, which saw an increase of over 30% in opioid overdose deaths compared to 2015. The Missouri Department of Health and… read more
    … up to 23 diagnosis fields, which are coded using ICD-10-CM (International Classification of Diseases, Clinically … up to 23 diagnosis fields, which are coded using ICD-10-CM (International Classification of Diseases, Clinically …
  • Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance and Population-Based Health Monitoring in Los Angeles County

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Bioterrorism Surveillance Unit of the Los Angeles County (LAC) Department of Public Health, Acute Communicable Disease Control (ACDC) program analyzes Emergency Department (ED) data daily. Currently capturing over 40% of the ED… read more
    … in the LAC metro area obtained from the weather.com website. Regarding surveillance for morbidity related to … Information: Emily Kajita, ekajita@ph.lacounty.gov http://www.lapublichealth.org/acd/ Advances in Disease Surveillance …
  • Automated Detection of Tuberculosis Using Electronic Medical Record Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Approximately one quarter of people treated for tuberculosis (TB) have no supporting microbiology, and thus are not detectable through laboratory reporting systems. Health departments depend upon clinicians to report these… read more
    … with a combined positive predictive value of 82%. By com- parison, the most sensitive single algorithm (any ICD9 … Control. “Sum- mary Statistics For The Year 2005.” http://www.mass.gov/dph/cdc/tb/tb_summarydata.rtf [2] Yokoe et al. …
  • Relationship between Clinical Screening Tools, Syndromic Surveillance, and Influenza-Positive Patients

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2003, with the advent of SARS, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) released a document mandating the use of a clinical screening tool to detect patients at high risk for having a febrile respiratory illness (FRI), defined… read more
    … Committee, Triage in Ontario. 2005; Available at: http://www.oha.com/client/OHA/OHA_LP4W_LND_WebStatio …
  • Comparison of Influenza-like Illness Syndrome Classification Between Two Syndromic Surveillance Systems

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2004, the BioDefend (BD) syndromic surveillance (SS) system was implemented in Duval County hospitals (Jacksonville, FL). Daily emergency department chief complaints are manually classified and entered into the BD system by… read more
    … The timing of statistical alerts between the systems was com- pared in relation to when sentinel influenza re- … BioDefend Surveillance Booklet. Available at: <http://www.bt.usf.edu/files/SurveillancePacket%20Draft.pd f>. …
  • The Snow Agent System: A Peer-to-Peer System for Disease Surveillance and Diagnostic Assistance

    Content Type: Abstract

    In the Northern part of Norway, all general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals use electronic health record systems. They are all connected via an independent secure IP-network called the Norwegian Health Network which enables … read more
    … Norway. This paper briefly describes the architecture and com- ponents of the system and the motivation for using this … 3920. 2004 [Accessed 11.04.2004]; Available from: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3920.txt [4] Turoff M. On site: Past and …
  • Identifying Current Practical Analytic Challenges - the Analytic Solutions Committee

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented September 21, 2017. The purpose of this webinar is to introduce the Analytic Solution Committees (ASC) to ISDS members, explaining how the committee works and how it… read more
    … Agenda for Syndromic Surveillance http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0033354917709784 Add research priority … name: Jurisdiction or affiliation: Phone: Email: Co-submitters and affiliations: PROBLEM DESCRIPTION …