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Evaluating the BioSense Syndrome for Heat-Related Illness in Maricopa County, Arizona
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Monitoring heat-related illness (HRI) is a public health priority in Maricopa County, Arizona. Since 2006, Maricopa County Department of Public Health has utilized data from hospital discharges, medical examiner preliminary reports, and death… read more… End Application uses a standard query definition for HRI (i.e., “Heat, excessive”), but this definition may perform … data; quantify the number of cases retrieved by the query due to chief complaint terms rather than clinical diagnosis; … End Application uses a standard query definition for HRI (i.e., “Heat, excessive”), but this definition may perform … -
Identifying Persons Who Inject Drugs in Medical Examiner Data in Maricopa County, AZ
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The rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States has increased steadily since 2000. Injection drug use, a practice associated with infectious disease transmission, has likely increased along with this upward trend in drug overdoses. Injection… read more… and to describe the characteristics of decedents who died from a drug overdose, were investigated by the county's … and to describe the characteristics of decedents who died from a drug overdose, were investigated by the county's … -
Impact of the NSSP’s transition to ESSENCE on chief complaint field-based syndromes
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In January 2017, the NSSP transitioned their BioSense analytical tools to Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The chief complaint field in BioSense 2.0 was a concatenation of the record's… read more… ESSENCE chief complaint field was electronically parsed (i.e., the original chief complaint text was altered to … ESSENCE chief complaint field was electronically parsed (i.e., the original chief complaint text was altered to …