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Free-Text Mining to Improve Syndrome Definition Matching Across Emergency Departments
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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 -
Opioid Surveillance using Social Media: How URLs are shared among Reddit members
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Nearly 100 people per day die from opioid overdose in the United States. Further, prescription opioid abuse is assumed to be responsible for a 15-year increase in opioid overdose deaths. However, with increasing use of social media comes increasing… read more -
Leveraging Discussions on Reddit for Disease Surveillance
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In recent years, individuals have been using social network sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit to discuss health-related topics. These social media platforms consequently became new avenues for research and applications for researchers, for… read more -
Tablet-based participatory syndromic surveillance at Simhashta festival in India
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Infectious disease surveillance for generating early warnings to enable a prompt response during mass gatherings has long been a challenge in India as well as in other parts of the world. Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh in Central India hosted one of the… read more -
Heroin Overdose Hospitalization Risk due to Prescription Opioids using PDMP in WI.
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Nationally and in Wisconsin, heroin is the leading cause of opioid related death and hospitalization. Opioids are commonly prescribed for pain. Every day, over 1,000 people are treated in emergency departments for misusing prescription opioids. In… read more -
Qualitative and Quantitative Predictions of Infectious Diseases in Shirak Marz
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The frequency of disease outbreaks varies as a result of complex biological processes. Analysis of these frequencies can reveal patterns that can serve as a basis for predictions. Objective: The goal of this study was to… read more -
Animals positive for Yersinia pestis in Armenia
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Plague was first identified in Armenia in 1958 when Y. pestis was isolated and cultured from the flea species Ct. teres collected from the burrows of common voles in the northwestern part of the country. In the process of digitalizing archived data… read more -
Epizootologic Potential of Certain Natural Foci Infections in Northeastern Armenia
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Tavush Marz, in northeastern Armenia, occupies 9,1% of its territory. In recent years in this area either no surveys were conducted or they were incomplete. Tavush Marz is a tourism center as well as a border Marz with strategic importance. The… read more