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  • Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?

    Content Type: Abstract

    A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to improve the performance… read more
    … H Zheng et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 1616 two non-negated ARI symptoms from … 2 Tokars JI, Burkom H, Xing J, English R, Bloom S, Cox K, et al. Enhancing time-series detection algorithms for … Health Threats Journal H Zheng et al. 2011, 4:s18 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 1717 …
  • Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?

    Content Type: Abstract

    A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to improve the performance… read more
    … H Zheng et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 1616 two non-negated ARI symptoms from … 2 Tokars JI, Burkom H, Xing J, English R, Bloom S, Cox K, et al. Enhancing time-series detection algorithms for … Health Threats Journal H Zheng et al. 2011, 4:s18 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 1717 …
  • Suspected Human Trafficking v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose:Human trafficking occurs when a person uses force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of exploitative labor, debt bondage, servitude, or engagement in a commercial sex act (Office on Trafficking in Persons, 2020;… read more
    … Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, (ICD-10-CM) and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED)) and … useful in trend monitoring and exploring how the ICD-10 CM and SNOMED codes related to human trafficking are being … Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, (ICD-10-CM) and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED)) and …
  • Geographical Analysis of Heat-Related Illnesses Detected by RODS in Houston, Texas

    Content Type: Abstract

    Heat surveillance in Houston is currently limited to mortality reports from the medical examiners office. A possible source of heat related morbidity is the Houston Real-time Outbreak Disease Surveillance (RODS) system. The RODS… read more
    … 22, 2008. REFERENCES [1] Greenberg JH, Bromberg J, Reed CM, Gustafson TL, Beauchamp RA, The Epidemiology of Heat- … heat emergency plan. 2005 Sept. Available from:http://www.houstontx.gov/health/NewsReleases … extremeheat/heat_guide.asp. Further Information: http://www.houstontx.gov/health/ Advances in Disease Surveillance …
  • Enterovirus D68 Outbreak SyS Discussion

    Content Type: Webinar

    ISDS Conference Call to discuss surveillance for severe respiratory illness / Enterovirus D68. This call will be an opportunity for syndromic surveillance practitioners to share their experiences conducting their contribution to surveillance for… read more
    … contact Brooke Evans at bevans@syndromic.org. 1. Midgley CM et al. Severe Respiratory Illness Associated with … September 12, 2014. Available online at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/wk/mm63e0908.pdf. …
  • Heat-related Illness - CSTE Heat Workgroup

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This definition is based the following document created by the CSTE Heat Workgroup: Heat-related Illness Syndrome Query: A guidance Document for Implementing Heat-related Illness Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice (attached). The query… read more
    … 2014 [cited 2016 June 2]; Available from: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml. 2. Sarofim, M.C., et al., Ch. 2: … Program. 2016 [cited 2016 June 2]; Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/nssp/overview.html. 5. Guasticchi, G., et al., …
  • Estimating the incidence of influenza cases that present to emergency departments

    Content Type: Abstract

    Our laboratory previously established the value of over-the-counter (OTC) sales data for the early detection of disease outbreaks. We found that thermometer sales (TS) increased significantly and early during influenza (flu) season.… read more
    … (referred to as constitutional counts, CC) of people who come to EDs as a rough surrogate of ED flu cases. We had … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 6464 in 2009. We trained a linear model … Health Threats Journal R Villamarı́n et al. 2011, 4:s57 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 6565 …
  • Facilitating Cross-Sectoral Collaboration Through One Health Country-Level Work Groups

    Content Type: Case Study

    Zoonotic diseases compose a large proportion of the disease burden faced by African countries (e.g. Ebola). A One Health approach to disease control has been embraced across the continent, yet public health and veterinary surveillance systems in… read more
    … States of America Email: Jsylvester@publichealthpractice.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? _x__ Human health ___ …