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Surveillance Investigation Tool Development Targeted for Results
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The Automated Hospital Emergency Department Data System is designed to detect early indicators of bioterrorism events and naturally occurring public health threats. Four investigatory tools have been developed with drill-down… read more… Flu Sentinel Reports as a percentage of total hospital visits for the 2006-7 Influenza season. Lastly, real-time, … -
Use of emergency department data for case finding following a community anthrax exposure
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On 24 December 2009, a female New Hampshire resident was confirmed to have gastrointestinal anthrax on the basis of clinical findings and laboratory testing. Her source of anthrax was not immediately known, so the New Hampshire… read more… of emergency department encounters between 1 October and 26 December was conducted immediately after confirmation of … surveillance for possible cases continued between 26 December and 31 January, 2010. DHHS’s statewide emergency … down a pool of nearly 2,00,000 emergency department visits to 62 possible cases requiring further investigation, … -
Ten Years of Syndromic Surveillance in New Hampshire: Innovation, Experience and Outcomes
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In response to the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, the NH Department of Health and Human Services (NH DHHS) engaged state and external partners in the design of an early warning surveillance system to support bioterrorism and emergency… read more… expanded to include drill down custom querying for all 26 acute care hospitals (allowing NH to realize statewide ED … STEMS, APHA Annual Conference; 2006. http://apha.confex.- com/apha/134am/techprogram/paper_141309.htm. *David Swenson … 11173 - DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v4i0.11173 http://apha.confex.com/apha/134am/techprogram/paper_141309.htm …