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• County-Level Social Vulnerability and Emergency Department Visits for Firearm Injuries—10 U.S. Jurisdictions, January 1, 2018–December 31, 2021.
  Miriam E. Van Dyke, May S. Chen, Michael Sheppard, J. Danielle Sharpe, Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Linda L. Dahlberg, Thomas R. Simon, Marissa L. Zwald
  Weekly / July 8, 2022 / 71(27);873–877

• Trends in Acute Hepatitis of Unspecified Etiology and Adenovirus Stool Testing Results in Children—United States, 2017–2022.
  Anita K. Kambhampati, Rachel M. Burke, Stephanie Dietz, Michael Sheppard, Olivia Almendares, Julia M. Baker, Jordan Cates, Zachary Stein, Dylan Johns, Amanda R. Smith, Lara Bull-Otterson, Megan G. Hofmeister, Stacy Cobb, Suzanne E. Dale, Karl A. Soetebier, Caelin C. Potts, Jennifer Adjemian, Aaron Kite-Powell, Kathleen P. Hartnett, Hannah L. Kirking, David Sugerman, Umesh D. Parashar, Jacqueline E. Tate
  Weekly / June 17, 2022 / 71(24);797-802

• Seizure- or Epilepsy-Related Emergency Department Visits Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic—United States, 2019–2021.
  Sanjeeb Sapkota, Elise Caruso, Rosemarie Kobau, Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Barbara Jobst, Jourdan DeVies, Niu Tian, R. Edward Hogan, Matthew M. Zack, Daniel M. Pastula
  Weekly / May 27, 2022 / 71(21);703–708.
• Pediatric Emergency Department Visits Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic—United States, January 2019–January 2022.
  Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Kelly Carey, Kathleen P. Hartnett, Aaron Kite-Powell, Marissa Zwald, Kayla N. Anderson, Rebecca T. Leeb, Kristin M. Holland, Abigail Gates, Jourdan DeVies, Amanda R. Smith, Katharina L. van Santen, Sophia Crossen, Michael Sheppard, Samantha Wotiz, Amelia G. Johnson, Amber Winn, Hannah L. Kirking, Rashon I. Lane, Rashid Njai, Loren Rodgers, Craig W. Thomas, Karl Soetebier, Jennifer Adjemian
  Weekly / June 17, 2022 / 71(24);797-802
• Pediatric Emergency Department Visits Associated with Mental Health Conditions Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic—United States, January 2019–January 2022.
  Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Rebecca T. Leeb, Rebecca H. Bitsko, Kelly Carey, Abigail Gates, Kristin M. Holland, Kathleen P. Hartnett, Aaron Kite-Powell, Jourdan DeVies, Amanda R. Smith, Katharina L. van Santen, Sophia Crossen, Michael Sheppard, Samantha Wotiz, Rashon I. Lane, Rashid Njai, Amelia G. Johnson, Amber Winn, Hannah L. Kirking, Loren Rodgers, Craig W. Thomas, Karl Soetebier, Jennifer Adjemian, Kayla N. Anderson
  Early Release / February 18, 2022 / 71
• Trends in Disease Severity and Health Care Utilization During the Early Omicron Variant Period Compared with Previous SARS-CoV-2 High Transmission Periods — United States, December 2020–January 2022.
  A. Danielle Iuliano, Joan M. Brunkard, Tegan K. Boehmer, Elisha Peterson, Stacey Adjei, Alison M. Binder, Stacy Cobb, Philip Graff, Pauline Hidalgo, Mark J. Panaggio, Jeanette J. Rainey, Preetika Rao, Karl Soetebier, Susan Wacaster, ChinEn Ai, Vikas Gupta, Noelle-Angelique M. Molinari, Matthew D. Ritchey
  Early Release / January 25, 2022 / 71

• Trends in COVID-19 Cases, Emergency Department Visits, and Hospital Admissions Among Children and Adolescents Aged 0–17 Years—United States, August 2020–August 2021.
  David A. Siegel, Hannah E. Reses, Andrea J. Cool, Craig N. Shapiro, Joy Hsu, Tegan K. Boehmer, Cheryl R. Cornwell, Elizabeth B. Gray, S. Jane Henley, Kimberly Lochner, Amitabh B. Suthar, B. Casey Lyons, Linda Mattocks, Kathleen Hartnett, Jennifer Adjemian, Katharina L. van Santen, Michael Sheppard, Karl A. Soetebier, Pamela Logan, Michael Martin, Osatohamwen Idubor, Pavithra Natarajan, Kanta Sircar, Eghosa Oyegun, Joyce Dalton, Cria G. Perrine, Georgina Peacock, Beth Schweitzer, Sapna Bamrah Morris, Elliot Raizes
  Early Release / September 3, 2021 / 70
• Evaluation of Syndromic Surveillance Data for Studying Harmful Algal Bloom-Associated Illnesses—United States, 2017–2019.
  Amy M. Lavery, Lorraine C. Backer, Virginia A. Roberts, Jourdan DeVies, Johnni Daniel
  Weekly / September 3, 2021 / 70(35);1191–1194
• Heat-Related Emergency Department Visits During the Northwestern Heat Wave—United States, June 2021.
  Paul J. Schramm, Ambarish Vaidyanathan, Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Abigail Gates, Kathleen Hartnett, Patrick Breysse
  Early Release / July 16, 2021 / 70
• Emergency Department Visits for Suspected Suicide Attempts Among Persons Aged 12–25 Years Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic—United States, January 2019–May 2021.
  Ellen Yard, Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Michael F. Ballesteros, Michael Sheppard, Abigail Gates, Zachary Stein, Kathleen Hartnett, Aaron Kite-Powell, Loren Rodgers, Jennifer Adjemian, Daniel C. Ehlman, Kristin Holland, Nimi Idaikkadar, Asha Ivey-Stephenson, Pedro Martinez, Royal Law, Deborah M. Stone
  Weekly / June 11, 2021 / 70(24);888–894
• Decreases in COVID-19 Cases, Emergency Department Visits, Hospital Admissions, and Deaths Among Older Adults Following the Introduction of COVID-19 Vaccine—United States, September 6, 2020–May 1, 2021.
  Athalia Christie, S. Jane Henley, Linda Mattocks, Robyn Fernando, Amy Lansky, Farida B. Ahmad, Jennifer Adjemian, Robert N. Anderson, Alison M. Binder, Kelly Carey,  Deborah L. Dee, Taylor Dias, William M. Duck, Denise M. Gaughan, Brianna Casey Lyons, A.D. McNaghten, Meeyoung M. Park, Hannah Reses, Loren Rodgers, Katharina Van Santen, David Walker, Michael J. Beach
  Weekly / June 11, 2021 / 70(23);858-864
• Emergency Department Visits for Tick Bites—United States, January 2017–December 2019.
  Grace E. Marx, Melanie Spillane, Alyssa Beck, Zachary Stein, Aaron Kite Powell, Alison F. Hinckley
  Weekly / April 30, 2021 / 70(17);612–616
• COVID-19 Stats: COVID-19 and Influenza Discharge Diagnoses as a Percentage of Emergency Department (ED) Visits, by Year—United States, June 2018–March 2021.
  Weekly / April 16, 2021 / 70(15);573
• COVID-19 Pandemic–Associated Changes in Emergency Department Visits — United States, December 2020–January 2021.
  Jennifer Adjemian, Kathleen P. Hartnett, Aaron Kite-Powell, Jourdan DeVies, Roseric Azondekon, Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Katharina L. van Santen, Loren Rodgers
  Weekly / April 16, 2021 / 70(15);552–556
• Emergency Department Visits for COVID-19 by Race and Ethnicity—13 States, October–December 2020.
  Amanda R. Smith, Jourdan DeVies, Elise Caruso, Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Michael Sheppard, Zachary Stein, Renee M. Calanan, Kathleen P. Hartnett, Aaron Kite-Powell, Loren Rodgers, Jennifer Adjemian
  Weekly / April 12, 2021 / 70(15);566–569

• Trends in U.S. Emergency Department Visits Related to Suspected or Confirmed Child Abuse and Neglect Among Children and Adolescents Aged <18 Years Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic—United States, January 2019–September 2020.
  Elizabeth Swedo, Nimi Idaikkadar, Ruth Leemis, Taylor Dias, Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Zachary Stein, May Chen, Nikolas Agathis, Kristin Holland
  Weekly / December 11, 2020 / 69(49):1841–1847
• Mental Health-Related Emergency Department Visits Among Children Aged <18 Years During the COVID-19 Pandemic—United States, January 1–October 17, 2020.
  Rebecca T. Leeb, Rebecca H. Bitsko, Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Pedro Martinez, Rashid Njai, Kristin M. Holland
  Weekly / November 13, 2020 / 69(45):1675–1680
• Transmission Dynamics by Age Group in COVID-19 Hotspot Counties—United States, April–September 2020.
  Alexandra M. Oster, Elise Caruso, Jourdan DeVies, Kathleeen P. Hartnett, Tegan K. Boehmer
  Weekly / October 16, 2020 / 69(41):1494–1496
• Changing Age Distribution of the COVID-19 Pandemic—United States, May–August 2020.
  Tegan K. Boehmer, Jourdan DeView, Elise Caruso, Katharina L. van Santen, Shichao Tang, Carla L. Black, Kathleen P. Hartnett, Aaron Kite-Powell, Stephanie Dietz, Matthew Lozier, Adi V. Gundlapalli
  Weekly / October 2, 2020 / 69(39):1404–1409
• Nonfatal Drug and Polydrug Overdoses Treated in Emergency Departments—29 States, 2018–2019.
  Stephen Liu, Lawrence Scholl, Brooke Hoots, Puja Seth
  Weekly / August 28, 2020 / 69(34);1149–1155
• Potential Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Use of Emergency Departments for Acute Life-Threatening Conditions—United States, January–May 2020.
  Samantha J. Lange, Matthew D. Ritchey, Alyson B. Goodman, Taylor Dias, Evelyn Twentyman, Jennifer Fuld, Laura A. Schieve, Giuseppina Imperatore, Stephen R. Benoit, Aaron Kite-Powell, Zach Stein, Georgina Peacock, Nicole F. Dowling, Peter A. Briss, Karen Hacker, Adi V. Gundlapalli, Quanhe Yang
  Weekly / June 26, 2020 / 69(25):795–800
• Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Visits — United States, January 1, 2019–May 30, 2020.
  Kathleen P. Hartnett, Aaron Kite-Powell, Jourdan DeVies, Michael A. Coletta, Tegan K. Boehmer, Jennifer Adjemian, Adi V. Gundlapalli, National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice
  Weekly / June 12, 2020 / 69(23):699–704
• Evidence for Limited Early Spread of COVID-19 Within the United States, January–February 2020.
  CDC COVID-19 Response Team (Gregory L. Armstrong, Jay C. Butler, Michael A. Coletta, Aaron Kite-Powell, Julu Bhatnagar, Sarah Reagan-Steiner, Suxiang Tong, Brendan Flannery, Jill M. Ferdinands, Jessie R. Chung), Michelle A. Jorden, Sarah L. Rudman, Elsa Villarino, Stacey Hoferka, Megan T. Patel, Kelley Bemis, Cristal R. Simmons, Megan Jespersen, Jenna Iberg Johnson, Elizabeth Mytty, Katherine D. Arends, Justin J. Henderson, Robert W. Mathes, Charlene X. Weng, Jeffrey Duchin, Jennifer Lenahan, Natasha Close, Trevor Bedford, Michael Boeckh, Helen Y. Chu, Janet A. Englund, Michael Famulare, Deborah A. Nickerson, Mark J. Rieder, Jay Shendure, Lea M. Starita
  Weekly / June 5, 2020 / 69(22):680–684
• Syndromic Surveillance of Suicidal Ideation and Self-Directed Violence—United States, January 2017–December 2018.
  Marissa L. Zwald, Kristin M. Holland, Francis B. Annor, Aaron Kite-Powell, Steven A. Sumner, Daniel A. Bowen, Alana M. Vivolo-Kantor, Deborah M. Stone, Alex E. Crosby
  Weekly / January 31, 2020 / 69(4):103–108
• Update: Characteristics of a Nationwide Outbreak of E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use–Associated Lung Injury—United States, August 2019–January 2020.
  Vikram P. Krishnasamy, Benjamin D. Hallowell, Jean Y. Ko, Amy Board, Kathleen P. Hartnett, Phillip P. Salvatore, Melissa Danielson, Aaron Kite-Powell, Evelyn Twentyman, Lindsay Kim, Alissa Cyrus, Megan Wallace, Paul Melstrom, Brittani Haag, Brian A. King, Peter Briss, Christopher M. Jone, Lori A. Pollack, Sascha Ellington, Lung Injury Response Epidemiology/Surveillance Task Force
  Weekly / January 24, 2020 / 69(3):90–94

• Vital Signs: Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Suspected Opioid Overdoses—United States, July 2016–September 2017.
  Alana M. Vivolo-Kantor, Puja Seth, R. Matthew Gladden, Christine L. Mattson, Grant T. Baldwin, Aaron Kite-Powell, Michael A. Coletta
  Weekly / March 6, 2018 / 67(9):279–285

• Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Tests Performed by a Large National Laboratory—United States, 2019–2020
  Guoyu Tao, Stephanie Dietz, Kathleen P. Hartnett, Praveena Jayanthi, Thomas L. Gift
  Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2022; DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001638
• Trends in Emergency Department Visits Related to Acute Alcohol Consumption Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, 2018–2020
  Marissa B. Esser, Nimi Idaikkadar, Aaron Kite-Powell, Craig Thomas, Kurt J. Greenlund
  Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports 2022; DOI:10.1016/j.dadr.2022.100049
• Changes and Inequities in Adult Mental Health-Related Emergency Department Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US
  Kayla N. Anderson, Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Rashon I. Lane, Michael Sheppard, Jourdan DeVies, Roseric Azondekon, Amanda R. Smith, Rebecca H. Bitsko, Kathleen P. Hartnett, Barbara Lopes-Cardozo, Rebecca T. Leeb, Katharina L. van Santen, Kelly Carey, Sophia Crossen, Taylor P. Dias, Sam Wotiz, Jennifer Adjemian, Loren Rodgers, Rashid Njai, Craig Thomas
  JAMA Psychiatry 2022; DOI:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.0164

• Changes and Inequities in Adult Mental Health-Related Emergency Department Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US
  Kayla N. Anderson, Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Rashon I. Lane, Michael Sheppard, Jourdan DeVies, Roseric Azondekon, Amanda R. Smith, Rebecca H. Bitsko, Kathleen P. Hartnett, Barbara Lopes-Cardozo, Rebecca T. Leeb, Katharina L. van Santen, Kelly Carey, Sophia Crossen,  Taylor P. Dias, Sam Wotiz, Jennifer Adjemian, Loren Rodgers, Rashid Njai, Craig Thomas
  JAMA Psychiatry 2022; DOI:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.0164
• Emergency Department Visits Among People with Cancer: Frequency, Symptoms, and Characteristics
  Michael S. Gallaway, Nimi Idaikaddar, Eric Tai, Behnoosh Momin, Elizabeth A. Rohan, Julie Townsend, Mary Puckett, Sherri L. Stewart
  Journal of American College of Emergency Physicians Open 2021;2(3):e12438; DOI: 10.1002/emp2.12438
• Nonfatal Unintentional/Undetermined Intent Stimulant-Involved Overdoses
  Cassandra M. Pickens, Lawrence Scholl, Stephen Liu, Herschel Smith, Stephanie Snodgrass, and the Stimulant Syndrome Development and Validation Group
  Public Health Reports 2021; DOI:10.1177/00333549211054489
• Estimating the Early Impact of the US COVID-19 Vaccination Programme on COVID-19 Cases, Emergency Department Visits, Hospital Admissions, and Deaths among Adults Aged 65 Years and Older: An Ecological Analysis of National Surveillance Data
  Lucy A. McNamara, Ryan E. Wiegand, Rachel M. Burke, Andrea J. Sharma, Michael Sheppard, Jennifer Adjemian, Farida B. Ahmad, Robert N. Anderson, Kamil E. Barbour, Alison M. Binder, Sharoda Dasgupta, Deborah L. Dee, Emma S. Jones, Jennifer L. Kriss, B. Casey Lyons, Meredith McMorrow, Daniel C. Payne, Hannah F. Reses, Loren E. Rodgers, David Walker, Jennifer R. Verani, Stephanie J. Schrag
  The Lancet 2021; DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02226-1
• Differences and Similarities Between Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance and Hospital Discharge Data for Nonfatal Drug Overdose
  Alana M. Vivolo-Kantor, Herschel Smith, Lawrence Scholl
  Annals of Epidemiology 2021;62:43–50
• Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Reported Lyme Disease, United States, 2020
  David W. McCormick , Kiersten J. Kugeler, Grace E. Marx, Praveena Jayanthi, Stephanie Dietz, Paul Mead, Alison F. Hinckley
  Emerging Infectious Diseases 2021;27(10):2715–2717
• Syndromic Surveillance of Vaccine-associated Adverse Events in U.S. Emergency Departments
  Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Zachary Stein, Jourdan DeVies, Amanda Smith, Michael Sheppard, Kathleen P. Hartnett, Aaron Kite-Powell, Jennifer Adjemian, Loren E. Rodgers
  Vaccine 2021; DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.06.030.
• Changes in Seasonal Respiratory Illnesses in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Loren Rodgers, Michael Sheppard, Amanda Smith, Stephanie Dietz, Praveena Jayanthi, Yan Yuan, Laura Bull, Samantha Wotiz, Tessa Schwarze, Roseric Azondekon, Kathleen Hartnett, Jennifer Adjemian, Hannah Kirking, Aaron Kite-Powell
  Clinical Infectious Diseases 2021; DOI:10.1093/cid/ciab311
• Suspected Nonfatal Drug-Related Overdoses Among Youth in the US: 2016–2019
  Douglas Roehler, Emily Olsen, Desiree Mustaquim, Alana Vivolo-Kantor
  Pediatrics 2021;147(1):e2020003491; DOI:10.1542/peds.2020-003491
• Development and Validation of a Syndrome Definition to Identify Suspected Nonfatal Heroin-Involved Overdoses Treated in Emergency Departments
  Lawrence Scholl, Stephen Liu, Alana Vivolo-Kantor, Amy Board, Zachary Stein, Douglas Roehler, Londell McGlone, Brooke Hoots, Desiree Mustaquim, Herschel Smith
  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 2021;27(4):369–378
• Monitoring Sexual Violence Trends in Emergency Department Visits Using Syndromic Data From the National Syndromic Surveillance Program—United States, January 2017–December 2019
  Ashley Schappell D’Inverno, Nimi Idaikkadar, Debra Houry
  American Journal of Public Health 2021;111(3):485–493; DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306034
• Trends in US Emergency Department Visits for Mental Health, Overdose, and Violence Outcomes Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Kristin M. Holland, Christopher Jones, Alana M. Vivolo-Kantor, Nimi Idaikkadar, Marissa Zwald, Brooke Hoots, Ellen Yard, Ashley D’Inverno, Elizabeth Swedo, May S. Chen, Emiko Petrosky, Amy Board, Pedro Martinez, Deborah M. Stone, Royal Law, Michael A. Coletta, Jennifer Adjemian, Craig Thomas, Richard W. Puddy, Georgina Peacock, Nicole F. Dowling, Debra Houry
  JAMA Psychiatry 2021

• A Latent Class of Analysis of Drug and Substance Use Patterns Among Patients Treated in Emergency Departments for Suspected Drug Overdose
  Stephen Liu, Alana Vivolo-Kantor
  Addictive Behaviors 2020; DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106142
• Special Report: Syndromic Surveillance for E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury
  Kathleen P. Hartnett, Aaron Kite-Powell, Megan T. Patel, Brittani L. Haag, Michael J. Sheppard, Taylor P. Dias, Brian A. King, Paul C. Melstrom, Matthew D. Ritchey, Zachary Stein, Nimi Idaikkadar, Alana M. Vivolo-Kantor, Dale A. Rose, Peter A. Briss, Jennifer E. Layden, Loren Rodgers, Jennifer Adjemian
  The New England Journal of Medicine 2020;382:766–772

• Building State and Local Public Health Capacity in Syndromic Surveillance Through an Online Community of Practice
  Deborah W. Gould, Emilie Lamb, Shandy Dearth, Krystal Collier
  Public Health Reports 2019;134(3):223–227

• National and Regional Representativeness of Hospital Emergency Department Visit Data in the National Syndromic Surveillance Program, United States, 2014
  Ralph J. Coates, Alejandro Pérez, Atar Baer, Hong Zhou, Roseanne English, Michael Coletta, Achintya Dey
  Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 2016;10(4):562–569

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