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Evaluation of Syndromic Surveillance in Detecting Hepatitis A in Los Angeles County
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In early 2017, HAV outbreaks were identified in San Diego County (490 cases) and Santa Cruz County (73 cases) in California, affecting primarily the homeless and/or illicit drug users. As of October 10, 2017, LAC had identified 12 outbreak-related… read more -
Opioid Overdose Ambulance Runs: How Wisconsin Uses Free Text Data
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In 2016, twelve states received Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance grants. The purpose of the grant is to explore enhanced data sources to track nonfatal opioid overdoses. One data source is… read more -
Wearable Sensor Application for Integrated Early Warning and Health Surveillance
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Wearable devices are a low cost, minimally invasive way to monitor health. Sensor data provides real-time physiological indictors of an individualâs health status without the requirement of health care professionals or facilities. Information… read more -
Effect of the Work Week on Demographics of Heat-Related Illness Patients in Syndromic Surveillance
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As global temperatures increase, so too does interest in the effect of climate change on the populationâs health. 2016 represented the hottest year on record globally and well above the 20th century average in Virginia. With large-scale climate… read more -
Lessons Learned from a Healthcare Associated Infection Tabletop Exercise, June 2017
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One in twenty-five patients in acute care hospitals develop at least one health care associated infection (HAI); this resulted in approximately 75,000 preventable deaths in 2011. Risk factors associated with developing HAIs include older patients,… read more -
Implementation of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) in Swaziland
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Swaziland adopted the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy in 2010 to strengthen Public Health Surveillance (PHS) that fulfills International Health Regulations (2005) and the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). This… read more -
Investigating Other Syndrome in ESSENCE from a Data Quality Perspective
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The Louisiana Office of Public Health (OPH) Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section (IDEpi) conducts syndromic surveillance of Emergency Department (ED) visits through the Louisiana Early Event Detection System (LEEDS) and submits the collected data… read more -
Niche Modeling of Dengue Fever Using Remotely Sensed Environmental Factors and BRT
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Dengue Fever (DF) is a vector-borne disease of the flavivirus family carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, and one of the leading causes of illness and death in tropical regions of the world. Nearly 400 million people become infected each year,… read more