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The Transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM: Guidance for Analysis and Reporting of Injuries by Mechanism and Intent
Content Type: Report
A report of the Injury Surveillance Workgroup Region 9, Safe States Alliance, December 2016. Executive Summary Impetus for this report: On October 1, 2015 in the United States, ICD-10-CM replaced ICD-9-CM for… read more -
Application of GIS for Optimization of Epidemiological Monitoring
Content Type: Abstract
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
Content Type: Abstract
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 -
Assessing the distribution and drivers of vaccine hesitancy using medical claims data
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In the United States, surveillance of vaccine uptake for childhood infections is limited in scope and spatial resolution. The National Immunization Survey (NIS) - the gold standard tool for monitoring vaccine uptake among children aged 19-35 months… read more -
Builiding Methods for a Proactive Prescription Drug Surveillance System
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) are operating in 49 states and several U.S. territories. Current methods for surveillance of prescription drug related behaviors, include the mean daily dosage of morphine milligram equivalent (MME) per… read more -
Burden and deaths associated with vaccine preventable diseases in Canada, 2010-2014
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Vaccination is one of the most successful public health interventions. Despite this, there are a variety of reasons that VPDs continue to be seen in developed countries such as Canada. This analysis describes the recent trends in the burden of… read more -
2016 International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference New Frontiers in Surveillance: Data Science and Health Security
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The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) held its fifteenth annual conference in Atlanta, GA, from December 6-8, 2016. Since 2001, individuals interested in sharing and learning emerging trends in surveillance research and practice… read more