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Utility of Syndromic Surveillance for Investigating Morbidity Resulting from a Severe Weather Event
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On 12/14/06, a windstorm in western Washington caused 4 million residents to lose power; within 24 hours, a surge in patients presented to emergency departments (EDs) with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. As previously described, records of… read more… to emergency departments (EDs) with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. As previously described, records of all patients presenting to King County EDs with CO poisoning between 12/15/06 to 12/24/06 (n=279) were … attempted to identify each of the 249 confirmed cases of CO poisoning in our syndromic ED data set by comparing the … -
Event Communication in a Regional Disease Surveillance System
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Versatile, user-friendly visualization tools are required to organize the wealth of information available to users of large, regional surveillance systems into a coherent view of population health status. Communications … read more… in the fu- ture. The functionality of this communication com- ponent must balance the utility of immediate situ- … can view the communications logs to better understand and com- pare which detection alarms were met with concern … -
Essential Requirements for Effective Advanced Disease Surveillance
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Advanced surveillance systems require expertise from the fields of medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, and information technology to develop a surveillance application that will automatically acquire, archive, process and present data to the user… read more… Department Chief Complaint Records, PHIN 2005, http://www.cdc.gov/phin/05conference/05-12-05/8A_Feighner.pdf. [2] …