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Assessing the use of Syndromic Surveillance Data to Identify and Track Heat Illness in Nebraska, 2010 - 2011
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Heat waves have serious health impacts such as heat exhaustion, heat stroke, dehydration, and death. Heat illness morbidity and mortality can be reduced with the identification of vulnerable populations and targeted public health interventions. In… read more -
Natural Disasters and Use of Syndromic Surveillance: Austin, Texas Metro Area 2011
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Emergency management during a disaster entails innumerable challenges. Each disaster uniquely shapes the types and timing of information needed both to manage the disaster and to measure the impact on available resources, the environment, and… read more -
Using Syndromic Surveillance Data to Identify Emerging Trends in Designer Drug Use
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Syndromic surveillance of ED and PCC data has been widely used for the detection, tracking monitoring and monitoring of health events (e.g. bioterrorism, , disease outbreaks, environmental exposures) over the past decade. In recent years, these data… read more -
Evaluation of the Connecticut Hospital Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System for Monitoring of Community Gastrointestinal Illness
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The HEDSS system was implemented in 2004 to monitor disease activity [1]. Twenty of 32 emergency departments (ED) and 1 urgent care clinic provide data. Chief complaints are routinely categorized into 8 syndromes. Although previous studies have… read more -
A Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Model for Syndromic Surveillance: Properties and Model Performance
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Syndromic surveillance uses syndrome (a specific collection of clinical symptoms) data that are monitored as indicators of a potential disease outbreak. Advanced surveillance systems have been implemented globally for early detection of infectious… read more -
Unstructured Free-text Data and Meaningful Use
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In 2010, as rules for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Electronic Heatlh Record (EHR) Incentive Programs (Meaningful Use)(1), were finalized, ISDS became aware of a trend towards new EHR systems capturing or sending emergency department (ED)… read more -
Biosense and Violence: Progress Toward Violence Prevention Using Syndromic Surveillance
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Violence is now clearly recognized as a public health problem. Intentional injuries ranked among the top six leading causes of death for Illinois residents aged 1-44 in 2013. The Illinois Department of Public Health currently collects data on… read more -
Analysis of Zero-Inflated and Overdispersed Time Series: An Application to Syphilis Surveillance in the United States
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Time series data involving counts are frequently encountered in many biomedical and public health applications. For example, in disease surveillance, the occurrence of rare infections over time is often monitored by public health officials, and the… read more