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Mandating Syndromic Surveillance Reporting from Emergency Departments: The Washington Experience
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As syndromic surveillance reporting became an optional activity under Meaningful Use Stage 3 and incentive funds are slated to end completely in 2021, Washington State sought to protect syndromic reporting from emergency departments. As of December… read more -
Sero-prevalence of foot and mouth disease in cattle in Borena Zone, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia
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The Foot and mouth disease (FMD) virus is a highly contagious and economically devastating trans boundery disease of cloven-hooved domestic and wild animals. Objective: To determine the sero-prevalnce of FMD and indicate… read more -
Use of Diagnosis Code in Mental Health Syndrome Definition
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Between 2006 and 2013, the rate of emergency department (ED) visits related to mental and substance use disorders increased substantially. This increase was higher for mental disorders visits (55 percent for depression, anxiety or stress reactions… read more -
A provincial Acute Febrile Illness Surveillance Network (GAFINet), South Korea
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In May 2015, the MERS-CoV outbreaks in South Korea was sparkled from a hospital of Gyeonggi-do province. In response to this outbreak, the provincial government and infectious disease control center (GIDCC) initiated an emergency department (ED)… read more -
Molecular Characterization of Salmonella spp. from Cattle and Chicken Farms in Uganda
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major concern in developing countries. Uganda is one of many developing countries that are beginning to implement a surveillance program countrywide to monitor AMR within the animal, environmental, and human… read more -
Why You Should Participate in HHS (Health and Human Services) Regional Epi Groups
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One of the early successes for the National Syndromic Surveillance Program's (NSSP's) BioSense Platform was community agreement on what should make up national and regional picture of the data. For NSSP to meet program objectives, National level… read more -
The Myths and Truths About Comparing Syndromic Data Across Sites
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One of the more recent successes of NSSP has been the introduction of more robust data quality monitoring and reporting. However, despite the increased insight into data quality, there are still concerns about data sharing and comparisons across… read more -
A Review of Evaluations of Electronic Event-based Biosurveillance Systems
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EEBS’s that use near real-time information from the Internet are an increasingly important source of intelligence for public health organizations. However, there has not been a systematic assessment of EEBS evaluations, which could identify… read more