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The Development of Virtual Data for Syndromic Surveillance Exercises
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On 27 April 2005, a simulated bioterrorist event—the aerosolized release of Francisella tularensis in the men’s room of luxury box seats at a sports stadium—was used to exercise the disease surveillance capability of the National Capital Region (NCR… read more… requirements and represented both ‘normal’ endemic visits (the background) as well as outbreak-specific records … requirements and represented both ‘normal’ endemic visits (the background) as well as outbreak-specific records … scenario realism. RESULTS A total of 2,623,226 background visit records were generated for the exercise. The … -
A Simple Method of Using Linked Health Data in Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes a simple technique for utilizing linked health information in syndromic surveillance. Using knowledge of which patient encounters resulted in laboratory test requests and prescriptions may improve sensitivity and specificity of… read more… streams (emergency department chief complaints, clinic visit International Classification of Disease Ninth Revi- … who were assigned certain ICD9 codes during an office visit also received specific laboratory requests and … of linked lab requests and prescriptions filled for each visit. This tally ranged from zero to greater than 9 and was …