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Disproportionate Emergency Room Use as an Indicator of Community Health
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Community health assessments are a foundation of public health practice and a prerequisite to achieving public health accreditation. Best practice dictates that CHAs must incorporate qualitative and quantitative data and utilize a number of… read more… a detailed picture of a community’s health. Metrics may describe demographics, social and economic factors, … Syndromic surveillance messages, typically emergency room visit records, contain sub-county level data on patient … entities will become standard. Analysis of emergency room visit data, either in aggregate or by specific syndromes, … -
Utility of Syndromic Surveillance in Detecting Potential Human Exposures to Rabies
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Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) can prevent fatal encephalitis associated with exposure to the rabies virus. However, overuse and inappropriate administration of rabies PEP are common.1 Mandatory reporting of potential rabies exposures… read more… active surveillance in addition to mandatory reporting may be useful.2 As rabies PEP is often given in an emergency … department setting, syndromic surveillance records may provide a basis for estimating completeness of reporting … active surveillance in addition to mandatory reporting may be useful.2 As rabies PEP is often given in an emergency …