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Integration of Hospital Admissions, Febrile Respiratory Illness Screening and Triage Acuity Score into an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System
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This paper outlines the integration of hospital admission, Febrile Respiratory Illness (FRI) screening and Canadian Triage and Acuity Score (CTAS) data streams within an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance system. These data elements allow… read more -
Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification
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This paper describes a novel approach to the statistical classification of free-text chief complaints for the purpose of syndromic surveillance. -
Early Detection and Integrated Response to Seasonal Influenza
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A syndromic surveillance system has been implemented at Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health in Kingston Ontario as part of a pilot project funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care – Public Health Division… read more -
Emergency Department Surveillance of Alcohol-Related Violence and Injuries to Enable Event Monitoring and Management
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Syndromic surveillance has been used been used as method of surveillance for various events in recent years. For example, post September 11th, 2001 anthrax attacks in New York City, World Youth Day in Toronto 2002, Salt Lake City 2002 Olympics,… read more -
Emergency Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) for Public Health in Canada
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In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more -
Multi-Sectored Approach to Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System
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In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more -
Chart Review of Laboratory-Confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis Cases in a Local Food Borne Outbreak Linked to Mung Bean Sprouts
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A retrospective chart review was performed to examine chief complaint, syndrome classification and discharge diagnoses of laboratory confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis phage type (PT) 13 cases who visited the Emergency Departments (ED) of two local… read more -
Acute Care Alerting and Integrated Public Health Investigation and Response to Syndromic Surveillance Alerts: Example of a Local Food Borne Outbreak
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To highlight the key role of Emergency Department syn-dromic surveillance in linking acute care and public health, thus enabling collaborative detection, monitoring and management of a local food borne outbreak.