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All Traffic Related, Washington State Department of Health, 2018
Content Type: Syndrome
Objective: Capture all traffic-related injuries presenting to the emergency room regardless of intent or vehicle type to allow monitoring of long-term trends in traffic-related injuries as well as short-term aberrations due to holiday, events,… read more -
CIPARS Surveillance and Research Highlights
Content Type: Webinar
Presented August 3, 2018. The Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS) is an integrated One Health surveillance program that has been operating and evolving since 2002. The basic structure of the program will… read more -
Time of Arrival Analysis in NC DETECT to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records
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TOA identifies clusters of patients arriving to a hospital ED within a short temporal interval. Past implementations have been restricted to records of patients with a specific type of complaint. The Florida Department of Health uses TOA at the… read more -
Towards Estimation of Electronic Laboratory Reporting Volumes in a Meaningful Use World
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 authorized the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to incentivize hospitals and physicians to become meaningful users of electronic health record (EHR) systems. In a final rule issued… read more -
Addressing Health Equity Through Data Collection and Linked Disease Surveillance
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In 2012, half of all adults in the US had one or more chronic health conditions; at least 25% had two or more chronic health conditions. Seven of the top ten causes of death in 2010 were chronic diseases; two of the seven chronic diseases, heart… read more -
Towards Interoperability for Public Health Surveillance: Experiences from Two States
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The use of health information systems to electronically deliver clinical data necessary for notifiable disease surveillance is growing. For health information systems to be effective at improving population surveillance functions, semantic… read more -
Towards Linking Anonymous Authorship in Casual Sexual Encounter Ads
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The increasing use of the Internet to arrange sexual encounters presents challenges to public health agencies formulating STD interventions, particularly in the context of anonymous encounters. These encounters complicate or break traditional… read more -
Tracking Drug Overdose Trends in Ohio using ED Chief Complaints
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The State of Ohio, as well as the country, has experienced an increasing incidence of drug ODs over the last three decades [3]. Of the increased number of unintended drug OD deaths in 2008, 9 out of 10 were caused by medications or illicit drugs [1… read more