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Evaluation of the DC Department of Health’s Syndromic Surveillance System
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Immediately following September 11, 2001, the District of Columbia Department of Health began a syndromic surveillance program based on emergency room (ER) visits. ER logs are faxed on a daily basis to the health department,… read more -
Evaluation of the Michigan Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System
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Efforts have been made to standardize and prioritize the description and evaluation of syndromic surveillance systems. Systematic information on the performance of existing systems can be used to assess and compare the value of… read more -
Project Tycho, Data for Health: Open Access to Newly Digitized U.S. Weekly Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance Data from 1888-Present
Content Type: Webinar
Background: Public health agencies in the United States such as the Public Health Service before 1950 and the Centers for Disease Control after 1950 have published nationally notifiable disease reports for cities and states… read more -
Exception Reporting Systems for ‘Flu Like’ Syndromes in Scotland
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The syndromic surveillance system in Scotland was implemented in response to Gleneagles hosting the G8 summit in July 2005. Part of this surveillance system used data from NHS24, a nurse led telephone help line that is the means… read more -
Exercise Demonstrates Effective Syndromic Surveillance Response Process
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Currently, Indiana monitors emergency department patient chief complaint data from 73 geographically dispersed hospitals. These data are analyzed using the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-… read more -
Expanding a Gazetteer-based Approach for Geo-Parsing Text from Media Reports on Global Disease Outbreaks
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HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated real-time system that monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, and maps online news about emerging diseases. The system performs geographic parsing (“geo-parsing”) of disease… read more -
Expanding the Functionality of Syndromic Surveillance Systems: Data Mining and Query Development
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The Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System (PHESS) currently receives approximately 5,000 near real-time chief complaint messages from 55 hospital emergency departments daily. The ISDH partners with the Regenstrief Institute to… read more -
Experience with Clinician-Based Syndromic Surveillance in West Texas
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Classical disease monitoring in local public health jurisdictions has been based on a list of “notifiable diseases”, more or less consistent from state-to-state. While laboratories’ compliance with this requirement is, in general, excellent,… read more