Development and Implementation of a Public Health Event Management System, Nigeria, 2018-2024.

Event management systems (EMS) are key tools for epidemic intelligence, integrating surveillance signals and incident response, although international standards to inform development are lacking. We describe the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) SITAware, a software capable of operating with low internet bandwidth to generate notifications, reports, and spatiotemporal dashboards and provide event-level data for real-time accountability and postevent learning. SITAware was enabled by local institutional ownership, co-created at low cost, and integrated into existing workflows.

Digital Point Solutions for Extending Contact Tracing Capacity.

Background: Initial COVID-19 surges in the United States created a need for technology to supplement human resources to increase efficiency and efficacy.

Methods: Resolve to Save Lives worked with jurisdictions to co-design four technology solutions-Epi Viaduct data pipeline, Epi Contacts contact elicitation webform, Epi Locator contact information search plugin, and Epi Viewpoint case management system (CMS)-to expand the capacity of case investigation and contact tracing (CI/CT) teams. We assessed impact on reducing CI/CT time intervals for COVID-19 using product data and user feedback.

Baseline serum albumin and other common clinical markers are prognostic factors in colorectal carcinoma: A retrospective cohort study.

The aim of the present study was to define the prognostic role of baseline serum albumin (BSA) in colorectal cancer (CRC) across tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) stages and other well defined prognostic factors. Many prognostic models in medicine employ BSA to define or refine treatments in very specific settings; in CRC, BSA has been found to be a prognostic factor as well. A retrospective cohort study of consecutive patients with CRC demonstrated by biopsy, who attended a cancer center during a 7-year period.