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2004 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference Abstracts
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Public health surveillance continues to broaden in scope and intensity. Public health professionals responsible for conducting such surveillance must keep pace with evolving methodologies, models, business rules, policies, roles, and procedures. The… read more -
A spatial accuracy assessment of a Bayesian Bernoulli Spatial Scan Statistic
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With the increase in GPS enabled devices, pin-point spatial data is an obvious future growth area for cluster detection research. The FBSSS handles binary labelled point data, but requires Monte Carlo testing to obtain inference [1]. In the Bayesian… read more -
2017 - 2018 Winter Weather Surveillance in Louisiana
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The Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section (IDEpi) in the Louisiana Office of Public Health (OPH) has several applications for syndromic surveillance including situational awareness during unusual and/or high profile events, such as the… read more -
21st Century Approach: Using data and novel technologies to address the opioid crisis
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Clark County, Indiana is geographically located in between the urban area of Louisville, Kentucky and Scott County, Indiana. Scott County is the site for the largest HIV outbreak in the history of the United States, directly related to high rates of… read more -
A Fairer Mirror: Equity-limited Healthcare System Rankings
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Healthcare systems are often evaluated using comparative health care rankings. Simulations have shown that maximally inequitable health care systems can perform well in published, influential health care system rankings by excelling in non-equity… read more -
A machine-learning algorithm to identify hepatitis C in health insurance claims data
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of liver disease-related morbidity and mortality in the United States. Monitoring the burden of chronic HCV infection requires robust methods to identify patients with infection. Insurance claims… read more -
A Novel Method for Rapid Mapping of the Spatial Intensity of Influenza Epidemics
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Surveillance of influenza epidemics is a priority for risk assessment and pandemic preparedness. Mapping epidemics can be challenging because influenza infections are incompletely ascertained, ascertainment can vary spatially, and often a… read more -
A Semantic Platform for Surveillance of Adverse Childhood Experiences
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been linked to a variety of detrimental health and social outcomes. In the last 20 years, the association between ACEs with several adult health risk behaviors, conditions, and diseases including suicides,… read more