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  • Integration of Hospital Admissions, Febrile Respiratory Illness Screening and Triage Acuity Score into an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System

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    This paper outlines the integration of hospital admission, Febrile Respiratory Illness (FRI) screening and Canadian Triage and Acuity Score (CTAS) data streams within an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance system. These data elements allow… read more
    … in Community Settings. March 2004. Available at: http://www.health.gov.on.ca/english/providers/pro- … gram/infectious/syndromes/standards/guide_fri_comm_031104 .pdf [2] Canadian Association of Emergency … (CTAS). Version 16: 11/30/1998. Available at: http://www.caep.ca/002.policies/ 002-docs/ctased16.pdf Further …
  • Overview of "Measure 3 - Case Reporting" as part of Meaningful Use Stage 3

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presentation slides from April 10, 2016 Meaningful Use Community Call   read more
    …  will  collaborate  on  FHIR  resources   considered  co-­‐owned  with  the  IHE-­‐HL7  Joint  Workgroup  within …  2015  Edi@on  Resources:   •  Press  release:   h;p://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/ …  proposed  rule:  (public  inspec@on  version)   h;ps://www.federalregister.gov/ar@cles/2015/03/30/2015-­‐06685/ …
  • Syndromic Surveillance in Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (ISDP) and Pre Hospital Emergency Care in India

    Content Type: Webinar

    Globally, disease surveillance systems suffer from a number of resource constraints. These constraints are more pronounced in developing countries, which bear the greatest burden of disease and where pathogens are more likely to emerge, reemerge,… read more
    … Dial 108 Caller in distress GIS DB ERCP DO Supervisor CO Supervisor Transfer Dispatch Officers (DO) Communication … – Disease Surveillance in India - Dr. Sampath K Krishnan www.idsp.nic.in • Resources from - World Health Organization – National Polio Surveillance Project, India www.npsuindia.org • Press Information Bureau, Government of …
  • An Early Warning System for Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality in Taiwan

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    Influenza is a serious disease that seasonality causes substantial but varying morbidity and mortality. In Taiwan, estimates of the influenza mortality burden were based on post-hoc analyses of national mortality statistics and not available until… read more
    … mortality; aberrations References 1. Wu WJ, Chang CM, Jiang CH, Yang SL, Chuang JH. Real-time surveillance of … Volume 2, Instruction Manual. Available at http://www.who.int/ classifications/icd/ICD-10_2nd_ed_volume2.pdf … A. The R-package ‘surveillance’. Available at http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/sfb386/papers/dsp/paper422.pdf …
  • T-Cube as an Enabling Technology in Surveillance Applications

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    T-Cube is especially useful for rapidly retrieving responses to ad-hoc queries against large datasets of additive time series labeled using a set of categorical attributes. It can be used as a general tool to support any task… read more
    … pairs of size = 1 and 2, the total number of such com- binations exceeding 4.3 million. The involved ana- … /NLD (Gebruik deze instellingen om Adobe PDF-documenten te maken voor kwaliteitsafdrukken op …
  • Exploring the Gaps: Symptoms by Influenza Type and Enhanced Sampling

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    The  ability  to  accurately  predict  influenza  infection  by  symptoms  and  local  epidemiology  prior  to  lab  confirmation  warrants  further  study… read more
    … culture. Hence, ILI symptoms are a potentially important co- variate in the early diagnosis of flu. However, gaps … each group. Patients positive for Influenza A and B were com- pared to determine if there were differences in the …
  • Applying classification and anomaly detection techniques to real-world data

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    Real-world public health data often provide numerous challenges. There may be a limited amount of background data, data dropouts, noise, and human error. The data from an emergency department (ED) in Urbana, IL includes a … read more
    … Edwards et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 25 West Nile virus. The modified EARS … 3 Tokars J, Burkom H, Xing J, English R, Bloom S, Cox K, et al. Enhancing Time-Series Detection Algorithms for … Health Threats Journal W Edwards et al. 2011, 4:s77 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 26 …
  • Increased emergency department presentations for head trauma following media coverage of a fatal epidural hematoma

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    Previous reports have demonstrated the media’s influence on ED visits in situations such as dramatized acetaminophen overdose, media report of celebrity suicides, television public announcements for early stroke care and cardiac visits following… read more
    … LH Gren et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 32 Acknowledgements This paper was … References 1 ThompsonWW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, Brammer L, Cox N, Anderson LJ, et al. Mortality associated with … in the United States. JAMA 2003;289:179–86. 2 Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, Brammer L, Bridges CB, Cox NJ, et …