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  • Improving quality and interoperability of public health messaging guides: CDC messaging quality framework

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    The HL7 messaging standard, version two that was implemented by most vendors and public health agencies did not resolve all systems’ interoperability problems. Design and tool implementation for automated machine-testing … read more
    … of electronic public health systems.   Objective This document describes the Public Health Information Network … 23, 2008. Available at: http:// www.cdc.gov/phin/library/documents/pdf/PHIN%20Notification- …
  • Improving quality and interoperability of public health messaging guides: CDC messaging quality framework (MQF)

    Content Type: Abstract

    The HL7 messaging standard, version two that was implemented by most vendors and public health agencies did not resolve all systems’ interoperability problems. Design and tool implementation for automated machine-testing messages may resolve… read more
    … of electronic public health systems. Objective This document describes the Public Health Information Network … 23, 2008. Available at: http:// www.cdc.gov/phin/library/documents/pdf/PHIN%20Notification- …
  • Modeling Disease Surveillance and Assessing its Effectiveness for Detection of Acute Respiratory Outbreaks in Resource-Limited Settings

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    A U.S. Department of Defense program is underway to assess health surveillance in resource-poor settings and to evaluate the Early Warning Outbreak Reporting System. This program has included several information-gathering trips,… read more
    … 2006.   Objective This modeling effort will provide guidance for policy and planning decisions in developing … System Objective This modeling effort will provide guidance for policy and planning decisions in developing … 2006.   Objective This modeling effort will provide guidance for policy and planning decisions in developing …
  • Finding medically unexplained symptoms within VA clinical documents using v3NLP

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    Pro-WATCH (protecting war fighters using algorithms for text processing to capture health events), a syndromic surveillance project for veterans of operation enduring freedom (OEF)/operation Iraqi freedom (OIF), includes a task to identify medically… read more
    … being customized to identify symptoms within VA clinical documents, and then refined to assign duration. The … symptoms and the aggregation of this information across documents by patient’s is not addressed here. Objective … the parts of speech and words around medical concepts, document type and section headings. For this Pro-WATCH task, …
  • Unplanned School Closures in the United States: Evaluation of Economic and Social Costs and Consequences for Students’ Families

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends implementing early targeted school closures as one of the front-line interventions to slow progression of a severe influenza pandemic before appropriate vaccine becomes available.… read more
    … can inform updates to CDC’s pandemic preparedness guidance. Submitted by teresa.hamby@d… on Mon, 11/06/2017 - … can inform updates to CDC’s pandemic preparedness guidance. … Unplanned School Closures in the United States: …
  • Adverse Drug Events: Insights From Google Search Volume

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    Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. However, post-marketing surveillance systems are passive and reporting is generally not mandated. Thus, many ADEs go unreported, and it is difficult to estimate and/or… read more
    … side effects are more difficult to characterize and document. Drugs with a high risk of harm outweighing the … side effects are more difficult to characterize and document. Drugs with a high risk of harm outweighing the …
  • Preparing for the Pandemic: A Review of State Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plans Reveals Increased Reliance on Advanced Surveillance; Recommendations for Pandemic Influenza Surveillance

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    In response to increasing reports of avian influenza being identified throughout the eastern hemisphere, the U.S. Homeland Security Council, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and others have called for expansion of… read more
    … Human Services pandemic influenza preparedness plan guidance. Like many states, the Connecticut Department of … & Human Services pandemic influenza preparedness plan guidance [3]. Like many states, the Connecticut Department …
  • Framework for the Development of Response Protocols for Public Health Syndromic Surveillance Systems

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    Although syndromic surveillance cannot serve its intended purpose without the timely public health response launched after aberration detection, the literature is very limited with respect to response to syndromic surveillance… read more
    … to syndromic surveillance systems alerts and related guidance for public health practitioners. Literature reviews … to syndromic surveillance systems alerts and related guidance for public health practitioners [1, 2]. Litera- … to syndromic surveillance systems alerts and related guidance for public health practitioners. Literature reviews …