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Developing a Guidance Document to Improve Public Health Surveillance during Disasters
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During all phases of the disaster management cycle, PH surveillance plays a valuable role. Surveillance provides PH officials and stakeholders the information they need to respond to disasters and take action in an appropriate and timely manner.… read more… disaster surveillance. Further, there is no standardized guidance on implementing or modifying surveillance for a domestic disaster. This document seeks to fill this gap, providing guidance on … -
Document classification toward efficient event-based biosurveillance
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Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human health. Online documents, such as news articles on the Internet, have commonly been the … read more… monitoring of online documents is challenging. Automated document classification is an important step toward … Medical Center, supervised and unsupervised approaches to document classification are considered for event-based … -
Preparing for State Health Department Accreditation: Pivotal Roles for Public Health Surveillance
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On January 24, 2014, the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) released, to the public, its Standards & Measures Version 1.5 guidance document for voluntary public health department accreditation. Specifically, Standard 1.2 of the guidance… read more… to the public, its Standards & Measures Version 1.5 guidance document for voluntary public health department … to the current Standards & Measures Version 1.5 guidance document. Given the recent effective date of the application … -
A review of automated text classification in event-based biosurveillance
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Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human, plant, and animal health. Online documents, such as news articles, newsletters, and (micro-) blog entries, are… read more… pertaining to human, plant, and animal health. Online documents, such as news articles, newsletters, and (micro-) … blog entries, are primary information sources in it. Document classification is an important step to filter … -
Zika Pregnancy Surveillance: Transforming Data into Educational and Clinical Tools
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Little was known about the maternal and fetal/infant effects of Zika infection before the 2015 outbreak in the Americas, which made it challenging for public health practitioners and clinicians to care for pregnant women and infants exposed to Zika… read more… during pregnancy and inform the CDC response and clinical guidance. In partnership with state, tribal, local, and … (Zika) surveillance data informs and improves testing guidance, clinical evaluation and management of pregnant … -
Georgia's Strategy for Targeting Syndromic Surveillance
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As part of public health protection activities conducted in support of the G8 Summit in Sea Island, GA, June 2004, DPH implemented SS in the state’s coastal region using information provided from ED visits, 911 calls, and pharmacy sales. Following… read more… its use in GA. Despite the emergence of practice-based guidance for conducting SS and the growing experience of public health agencies, little guidance is available regarding strategies for identifying … its use in GA. Despite the emer- gence of practice-based guidance for conducting SS and the growing experience of … -
Electronic Case Reporting of STIs: Assessing EHR Generated CCDs
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Under the CDC STD Surveillance Network (SSuN) Part B grant, WA DOH is testing electronic case reporting (eCR) of sexually transmitted infections (STI) from a clinical partner. Objective We reviewed CCDs (a type of consolidated… read more… type of consolidated clinical data architecture (C-CDA) document) shared by our clinical partner, Planned Parenthood … type of consolidated clinical data architecture (C-CDA) document) shared by our clinical partner, Planned Parenthood … -
Management tool to guide rabies elimination programmes
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Global targets for elimination of human rabies mediated by dogs have been set for 2030. In the Americas countries are progressing towards interruption of transmission and declaration of rabies freedom1. Guidance for managing elimination programmes… read more… of transmission and declaration of rabies freedom1. Guidance for managing elimination programmes to ensure … of progress, and through their identification, tailored guidance can be provided. Objective To provide surveillance …