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Data for Health Surveillance
Content Type: Presentation Slides
Presented December 6, 2016 Amy Ising presented these slides during the ISDS Pre-Conference Workshop as part of the 2016 ISDS Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This presentation provices an introduction to Syndromic Surveillance, an overview… read more -
Improving syndromic surveillance for non-power users: NC DETECT dashboards
Content Type: Abstract
NC DETECT provides near-real-time statewide surveillance capacity to local, regional and state level users across NC with twice daily data feeds from 117 (99%) emergency departments (EDs), hourly updates from the statewide poison center, and daily… read more -
Data Requests for Research: Best Practices based on the NC DETECT Experience
Content Type: Abstract
The North Carolina Division of Public Health (NC DPH) has been collecting emergency department data in collaboration with the Carolina Center for Health Informatics in the UNC Department of Emergency Medicine since 1999. As of August 2011, there are… read more -
Animal bite surveillance using NC DETECT emergency department visit data
Content Type: Abstract
Animal bites may have potentially devastating consequences, including physical and emotional trauma, infection, rabies exposure, hospitalization, and, rarely, death. NC law requires animal bites be reported to local health directors. However,… read more -
Finding Time-of-Arrival Clusters of Exposure-Related Visits to Emergency Departments in Contiguous Hospital Groups
Content Type: Abstract
Time-of-arrival (TOA) surveillance methodology consists of identifying clusters of patients arriving to a hospital emergency department (ED) with similar complaints within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently… read more -
Access to and use of syndromic surveillance information at the local health department level
Content Type: Abstract
Syndromic surveillance data have been widely shown to be useful to large health departments. Use at smaller local health departments (LHDs) has rarely been described, and the effectiveness of various methods of delivering syndromic… read more -
Discover the 2012 ISDS Conference
Content Type: Webinar
Whether you are planning on attending the ISDS Annual Conference for the first time this December or you have been attending since 2002, the ISDS Scientific Program Committee invites you to discover the 2012 ISDS Conference! This webinar will… read more -
Overview and Public Health Surveillance Utility of Poison Center Data
Content Type: Webinar
Presenters Johnathan Colvin, MS, Cincinnati Children's Bill Storm, MPH, Ohio Department of Health Amy Ising, MS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill… read more