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Chronic Pain Syndrome - Kansas Board of Pharmacy
Content Type: Syndrome
This is a preliminary Chronic Pain-Related Syndrome, created to search relevant ICD10 and a few key terms in emergency department visits in ESSENCE. The codes and terms are specific to non-cancer related chronic pain with exclusions of… read more -
Surveillance of Heat-Related Illness Among Pinal County Residents in Arizona
Content Type: Success Stories
Extreme heat events caused by high environmental temperatures are considered a major cause of weather-related deaths and injury in the United States. These events can result in a spectrum of conditions known as heat-related illnesses (HRIs), which… read more -
Malaria risk assessment through Remote Sensing and MultiCriteria Evaluation in Madagascar
Content Type: Abstract
Malaria remains a major public health problem in Madagascar. Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) is the adopted strategy for malaria control in the CHs and Fringe regions of Madagascar. Remotely sensed data analysis combined with Multi-Criteria… read more -
Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance System Evaluation, Ebonyi State Nigeria, 2017
Content Type: Abstract
Nigeria is one of the three countries in the world with ongoing wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission, alongside Afghanistan and Pakistan. Nigeria also experiences outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2). Following the… read more -
A Model-Based Architecture for Supporting Situational Diagnosis in Real-Time Surveillance Systems
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Real-time syndromic surveillance systems require adapted dataflow organization and tools for supporting data processing in real time, from their acquisition until the counter-measure building process. This work explores the capabilities of a… read more -
A Multijurisdictional Investigation of Resistant Highly Infectious TB in Asian Immigrants
Content Type: Abstract
Learn about a highly infectious resistant tuberculosis outbreak among recent immigrants & the multijurisdictional public health response. Recognize basics about tuberculosis & anticipate difficulties with immigrants and resistant strains.… read more -
A Multivariate Bayesian Scan Statistic
Content Type: Abstract
This paper develops a new method for multivariate spatial cluster detection, the ìmultivariate Bayesian scan statisticî (MBSS). MBSS combines information from multiple data streams in a Bayesian framework, enabling faster and more accurate… read more -
A National Scale Microsimulation of Disease Outbreaks
Content Type: Abstract
Our objective in this research is to take advantage of a supercomputer grid (TeraGrid) to develop a distributed memory national scale agent-based model (ABM) to study disease outbreaks at the micro level. This has data needs at both the national… read more