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A Syndrome Definition Validation Approach for Zika Virus
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In 2016, the World Health Organization declared Zika virus a global public health emergency. Zika infection during pregnancy can cause microcephaly and other fetal brain defects. To facilitate clinicians’ ability to detect Zika, various syndrome… read more -
Assessing local risk factors of Beijing Hand-Foot- Mouth Disease in China
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Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) is a common childhood illness and the drivers of HFMD incidence are still not clear [1]. In mainland China, continuing and increasing HFMD epidemics have been recorded since 2008, causing millions of infections and… read more -
Improving Cattle Market Syndromic Surveillance Through Electronic Data Capture
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An active syndromic surveillance system was designed to collect cattle health information from a sample of Texas cattle market sales. Texas Animal Health Commission livestock inspectors record the total number of animals observed along with the… read more -
Improving Detection of Call Clusters through Surveillance of Poison Center Data
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses the National Poison Data System (NPDS) to conduct surveillance of calls to United States PCs. PCs provide triage and treatment advice for hazardous exposures through a free national hotline.… read more -
In Denial: Symptom Negation in New York City Emergency Department Chief Complaints
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In July 2016, 77% of ED data was transmitted daily via Health Level 7 (HL7) messages, compared to only 27% in July 2015 (Figure). During this same period, chief complaint (CC) word count has increased from an average of 3.8 words to 6.0 words, with… read more -
Application of GIS for Optimization of Epidemiological Monitoring
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Technology that combines traditional manipulations with databases and complete visualization of geographic (spatial) analysis employing maps has been developed in order to explore the possibilities for Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to be… read more -
Baseline Assessment of Public Health Surveillance in the Kingdom of Swaziland
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Implementation of the IDSR framework for fulfillment of the International Health Regulations (2005) ([IHR 2005]) has been challenging in Swaziland due to distribution of IDSR functions across units within the Strategic Information Department (SID)… read more -
Automated Classification of Alcohol Use by Text Mining of Electronic Medical Records
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EMRs are a potentially valuable source of information about a patient’s history of health risk behaviors, such as excessive alcohol consumption or smoking. This information is often found in the unstructured (i.e., free) text of physician notes. It… read more