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Justification for Collecting Urgent Care Data to Broaden Syndromic Surveillance
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While UC does not have a standard definition, it can generally be described as the delivery of ambulatory medical care outside of a hospital emergency department (ED) on a walk-in basis, without a scheduled appointment, available at extended hours,… read more -
Social Network Analysis across Healthcare Entities, Orange County, FL, 2016
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In the realm of public health, there has been an increasing trend in exploration of social network analyses (SNAs). SNAs are methodological and theoretical tools that describe the connections of people, partnerships, disease transmission, the… read more -
Monitoring Out-of-State Patients during a 2017 Hurricane Response using ESSENCE
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Syndromic surveillance is the monitoring of symptom combinations (i.e., syndromes) or other indicators within a population to inform public health actions. The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) collects emergency department (ED) data from more… read more -
Mandating Syndromic Surveillance Reporting from Emergency Departments: The Washington Experience
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As syndromic surveillance reporting became an optional activity under Meaningful Use Stage 3 and incentive funds are slated to end completely in 2021, Washington State sought to protect syndromic reporting from emergency departments. As of December… read more -
Sero-prevalence of foot and mouth disease in cattle in Borena Zone, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia
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The Foot and mouth disease (FMD) virus is a highly contagious and economically devastating trans boundery disease of cloven-hooved domestic and wild animals. Objective: To determine the sero-prevalnce of FMD and indicate… read more -
Use of Diagnosis Code in Mental Health Syndrome Definition
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Between 2006 and 2013, the rate of emergency department (ED) visits related to mental and substance use disorders increased substantially. This increase was higher for mental disorders visits (55 percent for depression, anxiety or stress reactions… read more -
A provincial Acute Febrile Illness Surveillance Network (GAFINet), South Korea
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In May 2015, the MERS-CoV outbreaks in South Korea was sparkled from a hospital of Gyeonggi-do province. In response to this outbreak, the provincial government and infectious disease control center (GIDCC) initiated an emergency department (ED)… read more -
Molecular Characterization of Salmonella spp. from Cattle and Chicken Farms in Uganda
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major concern in developing countries. Uganda is one of many developing countries that are beginning to implement a surveillance program countrywide to monitor AMR within the animal, environmental, and human… read more