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  • 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.
    … and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org ) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition … and Emerging Infection Prevention Sys- tem (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engi- neer a syndrome definition … illness, a combination of evidence of fever and another com- mon symptom was used. The frequency of this com- …
  • Lessons Learned from the Transition to ICD-10-CM: Redefining Syndromic Surveillance Case Definitions for NC DETECT

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    NC DETECT receives ICD-9-CM codes for emergency department (ED) visits and uses these codes in case definitions for syndromic surveillance (e.g. infectious disease, injury, etc.). Hospitals will begin using ICD-10-CM codes on October 1, 2015. As a… read more
    … NC DETECT receives ICD-9-CM codes for emergency department (ED) visits and uses these … disease, injury, etc.). Hospitals will begin using ICD-10-CM codes on October 1, 2015. As a result, preparations have been made to accommodate ICD-10-CM codes in NC DETECT for data transmission, receipt, …
  • 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
    … include disposition, initial vital signs, up to 11 ICD-9-CM final diagnosis codes, up to five external cause of … include disposition, initial vital signs, up to 11 ICD-9-CM final diagnosis codes, up to five external causes of … the process, requesters view a presentation on https://www.ncdetect. org/ReportsPortal/public/dataRequest.do and …
  • Evaluation of Pedestrian/Bicycle Crash Injury Case Definitions for Use with NC DETECT

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    Over the last few decades, the United States has made considerable progress in decreasing the incidence of motor vehicle occupants injured and killed in traffic collisions.1 However, there is still a need for continued motor vehicle crash (MVC)… read more
    … injury surveillance, developed and evaluated four ICD-10-CM based case definitions for use with NC DETECT, NC's … surveillance system. Objective : To evaluate four ICD-10-CM based case definitions designed to capture pedestrian and … injury surveillance, developed and evaluated four ICD-10-CM based case definitions for use with NC DETECT, NC's …
  • 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
    … The prevailing approach uses only the primary ICD-9-CM diagnosis assigned to the ED visit; however, doing so may … The prevailing approach uses only the primary ICD�9�CM diag- nosis (Dx) for the ED visit (2); however, doing so … may underestimate the public health impact of asthma. We con- ducted this pilot study to determine the value of …
  • Using NC DETECT for Comprehensive Morbidity Surveillance on Poisoning and Overdose

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    A retrospective analysis of emergency department data in NC for drug and opioid overdoses has been explained previously [1]. We built on this initial work to develop new poisoning and surveillance reports to facilitate near real time surveillance by… read more
    … time and over 75% of ED visits receive at least one ICD-9-CM final diagnosis code within two weeks of the initial … time and over 75% of ED visits receive at least one ICD-9-CM final diagnosis code within two weeks of the initial …
  • 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
    … OBJECTIVE This paper describes a novel approach to the con- struction of syndrome queries written in Structured … bioter- rorism-associated agents. Available at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/ surveillance/syndromedef/index.asp. Accessed … SQL Server 2005 Books Online, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library /ms174214.aspx, Accessed June 29, 2006. …
  • Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes

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    Emergency Department (ED) triage notes are clinical notes that expand upon the chief complaint, and are included in the AHIC minimum dataset for biosurveillance.1  Clinical notes can improve the accuracy of keyword-based syndromes but require… read more
    … h/a. Many negated terms, however, were not addressed and con- tinue to create false positive syndrome hits. The pur- … type of negation. The final sample included 177 visits con- taining negated terms, from 18 of the 19 NC DE- TECT … scope, e.g. “states” or “now.” REFERENCES [1]http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic/materials/meeting10/bio/BDS …