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Assessing the Potential Impact of the BioSense 24-hour Rule Using NC DETECT ED Data
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Per a frequently asked questions document on the ISDS website, approximately two thirds of HL7 records received in BioSense do not provide a Visit ID. As a result, BioSense data processing rules use the patient ID, facility ID and earliest date in… read more… Per a frequently asked questions document on the ISDS website, approximately two thirds of HL7 records received in … Per a frequently asked questions document on the ISDS website, approximately two thirds of HL7 records received in … -
Improving System Ability to Identify Symptom Complexes in Free-Text Data
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Text-based syndrome case definitions published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)1 form the basis for the syndrome queries used by the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT). Keywords within these… read more… terms resulted in the return of many unwanted records due to the inability to control for certain terms imbedded … terms resulted in the return of many unwanted records due to the inability to control for certain terms imbedded … search for "h/a" with "h[/-,]a", for example, will return all results in which "h" and "a" are separated by either a … -
Using NC DETECT Summary Reports to Share Syndromic Information
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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) provides early event detection and public health situational awareness to hospital-based and public health users statewide. Authorized users are currently able… read more… In July 2008, an informal email-based survey was sent to all PHEs and the NC Division of Public Health PHE Program … any documented signal investigations, as well as export all of the tabular data to MS Word for further refinement … Wk. ending 08/23/08 38 EARS Signals & Comments 2008-08-26, Syndrome Count: 12, CUSUM Flag: C3. Comments: … -
North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System
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NC BEIPS is a system designed and developed by the NC Division of Public Health (DPH) for early detection of disease and bioterrorism outbreaks or events. It analyzes emergency department (ED) data on a daily basis from 33 (29%) EDs in North… read more… of ED data to DPH, NC BEIPS will soon have data from all 114 EDs. NC BEIPS also receives data on a daily basis … of ED data to DPH, NC BEIPS will soon have data from all 114 EDs. NC BEIPS also receives data on a daily basis … HTTPS. ED medical record numbers and account numbers are de-identified using a one- way HASH algorithm, based on the …