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Lyme Disease Related Encounters - Connecticut Department of Public Health, April 2019
Content Type: Syndrome
- Why the syndrome was created? This syndrome was created to monitor Lyme disease related emergency room visits using regular expressions in R.
- Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R…
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Evaluating Notifiable Disease Reporting by Providers: Analysis of Data Element Completeness
Content Type: Abstract
Completeness of public health information is essential for the accurate assessment of community health progress and disease surveillance. Yet challenges persist with respect to the level of completeness that public health agencies receive in reports… read more -
Evaluating the Ability of a Syndromic Surveillance System to Detect Heat-Related Illnesses in Houston, TX, 2009-2012
Content Type: Abstract
Extreme heat events over the past 30 years have resulted in unprecedented increase in the numbers of heat-related morbidity and mortality across the world (1-3). During the same time frame, Houston residents has experienced three of the hottest… read more -
Evaluating the Performance of Syndromic Surveillance System using High-fidelity Outbreak Simulations
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The evaluation of outbreak detection performance remained a major challenge to every syndromic surveillance system. Owing to the scarcity and uncertainty of infectious disease outbreaks in the real world, simulated outbreak datasets have been… read more -
Evaluation of Chlamydia Case Report Data: Completeness of Key Variables - United States, 2012
Content Type: Abstract
Chlamydia, a sexually transmitted infection which can lead to adverse reproductive health outcomes if untreated, is the most commonly reported nationally notifable disease in the United States.[1] Complete and valid demographic, geographic, and… read more -
Emergency Department Chief Complaint Versus Discharge Diagnosis for Tracking Disease Measures
Content Type: Abstract
ESSENCE is a web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by DHMH to detect and track outbreaks, suspicious patterns of illness, public health emergencies, and biological threats. ESSENCE ED chief complaint data is collected daily from 47… read more -
Enhancing Respiratory Infection Surveillance on the US/Mexico Border- Arizona BIDS Program Sentinel Surveillance Data
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This project was established through the Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) program in Arizona (AZ) to monitor infecting respiratory pathogens among hospitalized patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) in the AZ border… read more -
Enhancing Situational Awareness by Ground Truthing with Historical Outbreaks
Content Type: Abstract
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has been funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to develop tools that enhance situational awareness in infectious disease surveillance. We have applied the concept of the surveillance window to the… read more