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  • Animal bite surveillance using NC DETECT emergency department visit data

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    Animal bites may have potentially devastating consequences, including physical and emotional trauma, infection, rabies exposure, hospitalization, and, rarely, death. NC law requires animal bites be reported to local health directors. However,… read more
    … Between 2008 and 2010, 110 to 113 EDs were submitting visit data to NC DETECT. Several animal bite-related on-line reports are available and provide aggregate and visit-level analyses customized to users' respective jurisdictions. The NC DETECT ED visit database currently provides the most comprehensive and …
  • Evaluating the Validity of ED Visit Data for Biosurveillance

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    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) receives a designated set of data elements electronically available from 110 emergency departments (EDs) (98%) on at least a daily basis via… read more
    … system. Document Evaluating_The_Validity_Of_Ed_Visit_Data_For_Biosurveillance.pdf Submitted by elamb on … Evaluating the Validity of ED Visit Data for Biosurveillance Aaron Ratcliffe MS, Clifton … Evaluating the Validity of ED Visit Data for Biosurveillance …
  • Defining and Applying a Method for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data

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    The goal of this paper is to describe a methodology used to create a gold standard set of emergency department (ED) data that can subsequently be used to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of syndrome definitions.
    … thod_For_Establishing_Gold_Standard_Sets_Of_Emergency_Room_Visit_Data.pdf Submitted by elamb on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 08:40 … for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data George S. Ghneim1, D.V.M., M.P.V.M., Ph.D., … for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data …
  • Defining emergency department asthma visits for public health surveillance

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    Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of asthma control efforts. When using limited clinical ED datasets for secondary purposes such… read more
    … only the primary ICD-9-CM diagnosis assigned to the ED visit; however, doing so may underestimate the public health … secondary or tertiary positions. For example, for an ED visit with a primary diagnosis of upper respiratory … the infection triggered the asthma exacerbation and the visit could be attributed to both infection and asthma.   …
  • In Search of a Controlled Vocabulary for Emergency Department Chief Complaint: A Comparison of Four Published Chief Complaint Lists

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    The lack of a standardized vocabulary for recording CC complicates the collection, aggregation, and analysis of CC for any purpose, but especially for real-time surveillance of patterns of illness and injury. The need for a controlled CC vocabulary… read more
    … The lack of a standardized vocabulary for recording CC … creation of a controlled ED CC vocabulary. BACKGROUND The lack of a standardized vocabulary for recording CC … Med 2001; 8(10):980-989. [5]Schneider, D ‘A Reason for Visit Classification for Ambulatory Care’ US DHEW …
  • Emergency Department Data Quality Best Practices

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    Data quality for syndromic surveillance extends beyond validating and evaluating syndrome results. Data aggregators and data providers can take additional steps to monitor and ensure the accuracy of the data. In North Carolina,… read more
    … of data elements that should not change, i.e. time of visit, discharge disposition, etc. The aggregate trends … relevant facilities. Their responses can involve sending back data to fill in gaps, amending their internal data …
  • Incorporating Wildlife Data into Syndromic Surveillance

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    The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) serves public health users across North Carolina at the local, regional and state levels, providing syndromic surveillance capabilities.  At the state level,… read more
    … The PWC defines 8 syndromes and assigns each patient visit to none, one or as many syndromes as are appropriate … The PWC is currently assigning syndromes to each visit where appropriate but are not yet providing that …
  • Data Requests for Research: Best Practices based on the NC DETECT Experience

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    The North Carolina Division of Public Health (NC DPH) has been collecting emergency department data in collaboration with the Carolina Center for Health Informatics in the UNC Department of Emergency Medicine since 1999. As of August 2011, there are… read more
    … tick-borne illness and asthma, and comparison of NC ED visit data to national data, among others. Because the ED visit data are collected under a state mandate and in …