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Adapting Syndromic Surveillance Systems to Increase Value to Local Health Departments
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Syndromic surveillance systems offer richer understanding of population health. However, because of their complexity, they are less used at small public health agencies, such as many local health departments (LHDs). The evolution of these systems… read more -
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 -
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 -
Identifying Emergency Department Care in the Year Prior to Suicide Death
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Suicide is a leading cause of mortality in the United States, causing about 45,000 deaths annually. Research suggests that universal screening in health care settings may be beneficial for prevention, but few studies have combined detailed suicide… read more -
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 -
Optimization of Linkage between North Carolina EMS and ED Data: EMS Naloxone Cases
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The opioid overdose crisis has rapidly expanded in North Carolina (NC), paralleling the epidemic across the United States. The number of opioid overdose deaths in NC has increased by nearly 40% each year since 2015.1 Critical to preventing overdose… read more -
Utilization of Emergency Department Data for Drug Overdose Surveillance in North Carolina
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In North Carolina there has been an escalation of poisoning deaths. In 2011, the number of fatal poisonings was 1,368 deaths, with 91% classified as drug overdoses with the majority of those due to opioid analgesics.[1] Far greater numbers of drug… read more -
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