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Lessons Learned from a DoD and Virginia Data Sharing Pilot using NSSP ESSENCE
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The DoD and VDH both maintain local ESSENCE installations to monitor the health status of their military and civilian populations, respectively, and submit syndromic surveillance data to the NSSP ESSENCE to foster data sharing and collaborative… read more -
Lessons Learned from an Extreme Heat Event using ACES for Situational Awareness, Ontario, Canada
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The Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance (ACES) system provides syndromic surveillance for Ontario's acute care hospitals. ACES receives over 99% of acute care records for emergency department (ED) visits; mean daily volume is 17,500 visits. ACES uses a… read more -
Linking Emergency Medical Service Data to Death Records for Opioid Mortality Surveillance
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Opioid abuse has increased exponentially in recent years throughout the United States, leading to an increase in the incidence of emergency response activities, hospitalization, and mortality related to opioid overdose. As a result, states that have… read more -
Making Syndromic Surveillance Relevant and Valuable for Emergency Managers
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Intense stress can severely degrade one's ability to process and utilize new kinds of information.1 This psychological phenomena may partially explain why epidemiologist are challenged to communicate and establish the value of SyS information with… read more -
Malaria burden through routing reporting: Relationship between incidence estimates
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Routine surveillance is an important global strategy for malaria control. However, there have been few studies comparing routine indicators of burden, including test positivity rate (TPR) and test-confirmed malaria case rates (CMCR), over spatial… read more -
Mapping PPS: A case study of story map journals for interactive health reporting
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How are interactive story map journals situated within the genre of interactive, health science reporting? How can reporting information to public audiences be theorized through traditional and contemporary understandings of new media genres in… read more -
Measuring trends in hepatitis C testing with commercial laboratory data
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of liver disease-related morbidity and mortality in the United States. Approximately 75% of people infected with chronic HCV were born between 1945 and 1965. Since 2012, the CDC has recommended… read more -
Mental health and opioid addiction comorbidities among chronic pain patients
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The National Institute for Drug Abuse Report, Common Comorbidities with Substance Use Disorders, states there are many individuals who develop substance use disorders (SUD) are also diagnosed with mental disorders, and vice versa.(1) Prescription… read more