Query purpose:
This query is designed to identify records with diagnostic codes and chief complaints related to mumps.
Please see attached fact sheet for more information including inclusion and exclusion criteria
Communicable Disease Surveillance
Query purpose:
This query is designed to identify records with diagnostic codes associated with Orthopoxvirus and Monkeypox virus infections.
Please see attached fact sheet for more information including inclusion and exclusion criteria
Description
Epidemiological information realized by modern disease surveillance systems offers great potential for supporting clinical decision-making. Providing health practitioners with population-based, pathogen-specific information about regional communicable infectious disease epidemiology can engender enhanced knowledge about specific pathogens, which may, in turn, lead to improved clinical performance. To enhance the pathogen-specificity of Utah’s surveillance system, which includes tracking syndromes and notifiable diseases, we developed a system that tracks microbiologic testing in Utah’s largest health care delivery system.
Objective
The objective of this study is to describe a system 'Germ Watch' that provides information about the regional activity of common communicable infectious diseases.
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Description
Disease surveillance is an epidemiological practice by which the spread of disease is mentioned in order to establish patterns of progression. The main role of Priority Communicable Disease Surveillance (PCDS) is to predict, observe, and minimize the harm caused by outbreak, epidemic, and pandemic situations, as well as increase our knowledge to what factors might contribute to such circumstances. A key part of modern disease surveillance is the practice of disease case reporting.
Objective
Surveillance of priority communicable diseases started with a view to build up an early warning system for certain important public health important diseases in Bangladesh, namely: (1) Diarrheal disease (acute watery diarrhea and bloody dysentery); (2) Malaria; (3) Kala-azar; (4) Tuberculosis; (5) Leprosy; (6) Encephalitis; (7) Unknown diseases of public health concern.
Description
This study assessed the performance of the core function activities (CFA) of the Communicable Disease Surveillance system and response (CDSs) existing in Gazera State. The first assessment of disease surveillance being conducted in the area during 2008-2009. The assessment findings facilitate the identification of exact areas for improvement and consequently was used in surveillance system improvement as well as a baseline for future reform plans (1). Communicable diseases in Gazera State continue to be the leading cause of morbidity and mortality (2). The State was one of the states that experienced epidemics of serious diseases such as Acute Watery Diarrhoea, Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, Rift valley Fever..etc. During the last decade, the state has witnessed more than twenty epidemics resulting in high morbidity and mortalities, as reported in 2006-2007(1). This was coupled with struggling health services and health information system and this was stated in the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) annual report 2008 (2).
Objective
The aim of this study is to assess the impact of staff qualification and training on the performance of Core Function Activities (CFA) Of Communicable Disease Surveillance System in Gazera State, Sudan.
- Objective: To monitor clinical encounters for gonorrhea infection and disease
- Syndromic surveillance system: ESSENCE
- Data Sources: Emergency department visits, primary and urgent care visits
- Fields used to query the data: Chief Complaint History, Discharge Diagnosis
- Objective: To monitor clinical encounters for chlamydia infection and disease
- Syndromic surveillance system: ESSENCE
- Data Sources: Emergency department visits, primary and urgent care visits
- Fields used to query the data: Chief Complaint History, Discharge Diagnosis
Description
Objective
So as to be able to detect nosocomial outbreaks at an early stage, we examine the construction of a syndromic surveillance system for inpatients who have fever, respiratory symptoms, diarrhea, vomiting or rash and evaluate its statistical properties.
Description
Difficulties in timely acquisition and interpretation of accurate data on communicable diseases can impede outbreak detection and control. These limitations are of global importance: they contribute to avoidable morbidity, economic losses, and social disruption; and, in a globalized world, epidemics can spread rapidly to other susceptible populations.
SARS and the potential for an influenza pandemic highlighted the importance of global disease surveillance. Similarly, the World Health Organization’s newly implemented 2005 International Health Regulations require member countries to provide notification of emerging infectious diseases of potential global importance. The challenges arise when Ministries of Health (MoH) in resource-poor countries add these mandates to already over-burdened and under-funded surveillance systems. Appropriately adapted, electronic disease surveillance systems could provide the tools and approaches MOHs need to meet today’s surveillance challenges.
Objective
In this presentation we will discuss the concept of electronic disease surveillance in resource-poor settings, and the issues to be considered during system planning and implementation.
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Description
Centre for Health Protection (CHP) plans to conduct a pilot project in developing a syndromic surveillance system using data from Emergency Departments (ED) in Hong Kong. This is part of the Communicable Disease Information System initiative, which aims at enhancing the capability of Hong Kong in the control and prevention of communicable diseases.
Objective
This paper describes how the CHP of Hong Kong designed and deployed an online interactive system that uses the data from ED for syndromic surveillance.
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