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  • Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor for Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance

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    The goal of this project is to compare automated syn-dromic surveillance queries using raw chief complaints to those pre-processed with the Emergency Medical Text Processor (EMT-P) system.
    … syn- dromic surveillance queries using raw chief com- plaints to those pre-processed with the Emergency …
  • 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
    … to add comments, select a severity level and view the com- ments of other users in their jurisdiction(s). Several …
  • 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
    … diagnoses, due to the latency in receiving ICD-9-CM final diagnosis codes. The queries account for … Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2004 May http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no5/03- 0646.htm. Accessed July … Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:167 http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no5/03-0646.htm …
  • 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
    … of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes, chief complaint (CC), initial recorded … temperature, and ED nurse triage note (TN). As ICD-9-CM codes are not transmitted to our database in a timely … bio- terrorism-associated agents. Available at http://www.bt.cdc. gov /surveillance/syndromedef/index.asp. …
  • 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
    … conducted an aggregate study of the timeliness of ICD-9-CM final diagnosis codes transmitted to NC DETECT [2]. We … [1] North Carolina General Statute 130A-480. http://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByChapt …
  • Securing protected health information in NC DETECT

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    NC DETECT receives daily data files from emergency departments (ED), the statewide EMS data collection system, the statewide poison center, and veterinary laboratory test results. Included in these data are elements, which may contain Protected… read more
    … Falls et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 29 access designs must be flexible … Health Threats Journal DM Falls et al. 2011, 4:s79 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 30 …
  • Access to and use of syndromic surveillance information at the local health department level

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    Syndromic surveillance data have been widely shown to be useful to large health departments. Use at smaller local health departments (LHDs) has rarely been described, and the effectiveness of various methods of delivering syndromic… read more
    … Samoff et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 78 LHDs, and some LHD staff members … Health Threats Journal E Samoff et al. 2011, 4:s111 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 79 …
  • 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
    … bioterrorism- associated agents. Available at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/syndromedef/ [3] Wagner, MM, …