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Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition
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In North Carolina, select hospital emergency departments have been submitting data since 2003 for use in syndromic surveillance. These data are collected, stored, and parsed into syndrome categories by the North Carolina… read more… zoster were not included. From the 813,536 ED visits in the database for the calendar year 2004, all visits with the ICD-9-CM code of 052.0-052.9 (CP) and all visits meeting the syndrome definition for FRI were … -
Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance
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The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) receives daily emergency department (ED) data from 33 (29%) of the 114 EDs in North Carolina. These data are available via a Web-based portal and the Early… read more… syndrome queries. METHODS We selected a sample of 500 ED visits from the 2004 NC BEIPS data warehouse. Two hundred … categories based on clinical case definition. All visits were electronically processed for SS twice, once … syndrome designations generated false positives for some visits that did not meet the syndrome definitions according … -
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… generated, providing a line listing of all the syndrome visits that contributed to the flag on that particular date. … -
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.… with a goal of increasing sensitivity. METHODS Patient visits from the 2003-2004 influenza season (9/28/03-3/27/04) …