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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… 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, … Syndromic surveillance messages, typically emergency room visit records, contain sub-county level data on patient … -
Comparison of National and Local Syndromic Surveillance Data - Cook County, IL, 2017
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In 2005, the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) began using the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) as an emergency department (ED)-based local syndromic surveillance program… read more… flat files) and contain a unique patient identifier, visit date and time, zip code, age, sex, and chief … flat files) and contain a unique patient identifier, visit date and time, zip code, age, sex, and chief …