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Automated Immunization Surveillance: Using Business Intelligence to Improve Up-to-Date Rates
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IIS have effectively increased vaccination rates through targeted engagement and outreach, often with clinicians and patients. Little has been published around IIS use for generating meaningful population health measures. To leverage IIS data for… read more -
Automating Antimicrobial Usage Reporting
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Antimicrobial stewardship is crucial to the ongoing viability of existing therapies. To facilitate this stewardship, NHSN allows hospitals to submit data on their antimicrobial usage and receive feedback on how their usage compares to other… read more -
Beyond Overdose: Surveillance of Recreational Drug Use and Corresponding Toxicology Testing
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Drug overdose deaths are increasing nationally and in Minnesota (MN). This is only a fraction of the overall burden that recreational drug use exacts on emergency departments (ED) and hospitals. In addition to opioids and other drugs, three… read more -
Biosurveillance study of Schmallenberg disease in Azerbaijan in 2012-2017
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In 2012 - 2017 in Azerbaijan there was an unexpected increase of abortions in cattle and sheep that was unrelated to brucellosis or chlamydia infection. The first confirmed case of Schmallenberg disease was received from Beylagan district of… read more -
Building Electronic Disease Surveillance Capacity in the Peruvian Navy with SAGES
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In the past 15 years, public health surveillance has undergone a revolution driven by advances in information technology (IT) with vast improvements in the collection, analysis, visualization, and reporting of health data. Mobile technologies and… read more -
C. burnetii Shedding Study In Domestic Animals in Georgia
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Q fever is a zoonotic bacterial disease resulting from infection by Coxiella burnetii. Domestic ruminants (cattle, sheep, and goats) are considered the main reservoir for the pathogen, which can also infect humans. Q fever is poorly understood in… read more -
Calendar effects to forecast influenza seasonality: A case study in Milwaukee, WI
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Influenza viral infection is contentious, has a short incubation period, yet preventable if multiple barriers are employed. At some extend school holidays and travel restrictions serve as a socially accepted control measure. A study of a… read more -
Camera-based, mobile disease surveillance using Convolutional Neural Networks
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Infectious diseases present with multifarious factors requiring several efforts to detect, prevent, and break the chain of transmission. Recently, machine learning has shown to be promising for automated surveillance leading to rapid and early… read more