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  • Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina

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    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the early event detection system that serves public health users across North Carolina. One important data source for this system is North… read more
    … A (34%) is located in Mecklenburg county. Hospital B (26%) is located in Wake county. Hospital A and Hospital B …
  • 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: …
  • 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
    … total ED visits were for 5�9 year olds (Fig. 1). Across all 3 years, males had a slightly higher proportion of … 1. Percentage of ICD-9-CM*�coded animal bite ED visits to all ED visits by patient age and year, 2008�2010, NC DETECT. … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • 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
    … to both infection and asthma. Methods We utilized all ED visit data for 2008�2009 from the state public health … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • Improving syndromic surveillance for non-power users: NC DETECT dashboards

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    NC DETECT provides near-real-time statewide surveillance capacity to local, regional and state level users across NC with twice daily data feeds from 117 (99%) emergency departments (EDs), hourly updates from the statewide poison center, and daily… read more
    … to meet their surveillance needs. Keywords Dashboards; all-hazards surveillance; user interface design … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • 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
    … have implemented a centralized tracking system to store all documentation for data requests and track changes to … However, researchers are expected to abide by all provisions detailed in their DUA and by signing … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • Situational Awareness Using Web-based Annotation and Custom Reporting

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    While early event detection systems aim to detect disease outbreaks before traditional means, following up on the many alerts generated by these systems can be time-consuming and a drain on limited resources. Authorized users at local, regional… read more
    … ambulance runs and the statewide poison control center. All NC DETECT Web functionality is developed in a … ambulance runs and the statewide poison control center. All NC DETECT Web functionality is developed in a … ambulance runs and the statewide poison control center. All NC DETECT Web functionality is developed in a …
  • Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza

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    We report here on the use of the North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition of influenza for the purpose of influenza surveillance.
    … Through the use of this system, we are able to de- velop, evaluate and refine syndrome definitions in … attempt at influenza syndrome definition development did not combine evidence of fever with other common symptoms … in the identi- fication of many false positive records. Due to lack of recognition of negation terms (e.g. no …