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  • Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot

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    The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more
    … departments for their own surveillance needs. Originally, sites were asked to send whatever syndrome definition they … to send their broader, higher count syndrome. In 2008, sites were asked to send both a broad syndrome, and a narrow … illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot DR …
  • An information visualization approach to improving data quality

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Public Health - Seattle & King County syndromic surveillance system has been collecting emergency department (ED) data since 1999. These data include hospital name, age, sex, zip code, chief complaint, diagnoses (when available), disposition… read more
    … (when available), disposition, and a patient and visit key. Data are collected for 19 of 20 King County EDs, for visits that occurred the previous day. Over time, various … diagnoses (when available), disposition and a patient and visit key. Data are collected for 19 of 20 King County EDs, …
  • In data we trust? An evaluation of the quality of influenza hospital admissions data gathered by automated versus manual reporting

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Washington Comprehensive Hospital Abstract Reporting System (CHARS) has collected discharge data from billing systems for every inpatient admitted to every hospital in the state since 1987 [1]. The purpose of the system is to provide data for… read more
    … to provide data for making informed decisions on health care. The system collects age, sex, zip code and billed … patient was intubated or was in the ICU, and a patient/visit key. Hospitals transmit data daily for visits that occurred up to 1 month earlier. Previously, we …
  • Increased emergency department presentations for head trauma following media coverage of a fatal epidural hematoma

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    Previous reports have demonstrated the media’s influence on emergency departments (ED) visits in situations such as dramatized acetaminophen overdose, media report of celebrity suicides, television public announcements for early… read more
    … the media’s influence on emergency departments (ED) visits in situations such as dramatized … television public announcements for early stroke care and cardiac visits following President Clinton’s heart surgery. No … This study describes an increase in head trauma-related visits to emergency departments (ED) in New York City, New …
  • Evaluation of Electronic Ambulatory Care Data for Use in the Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet)

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    During summer 2012, Washington State Department of Health (WA DOH) surveyed ILINet providers and found that more than half either utilize their electronic medical record system (EMRS) to gather and report weekly ILINet data, or intend to implement… read more
    … exists great interest in the evaluation of ambulatory care data within the context of Meaningful Use and little … emergency department (ED) data accurately identified ILI visits in electronic ambulatory care data. Objective: To … exists great interest in the evaluation of ambulatory care data within the context of Meaningful Use and little …
  • The validity of emergency department influenza-like-illness (ILI) for laboratory-confirmed influenza in children

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    Syndromic surveillance systems use electronic health-related data to support near-real time disease surveillance. Over the last 10 years, the use of ILI syndromes defined from emergency department (ED) data has become an increasingly accepted… read more
    … lab-confirmed influenza: (1) ILI from chief complaint (CC) or diagnoses codes (‘‘ILI’’); (2) ILI from CC alone; (3) febrile illness from CC or diagnoses … time of study. Results We studied approximately 14,000 visits during the discrete year and 32,000 visits during …
  • Data Quality

    Content Type: Use Case

    Problem Summary Data collection across a growing stream of contributing facilities and variables requires automated, consistent, and efficient monitoring of quality. Epidemiologists tasked with analyzing syndromic data need to be confident in the… read more
    … truncation, uninformative generic values, diagnosis in CC field, etc.) 6. Changes in distribution of data … facility and jurisdictional level. Volume of patient visits and the severity of the missing variable to analytic … that can be provided to address the problem: Unique visit ID, Visit Date, Chief Complaint, Facility ID, Age, …
  • Syndromic Surveillance for Influenza in Washington State: A Local and Regional Perspective

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    We explored the utility of tracking emergency department (ED) visits for febrile illness as a proxy for influenza surveillance, from both a local and a regional perspective.
    … the utility of tracking emergency department (ED) visits for febrile illness as a proxy for influenza … the utility of tracking emergency de- partment (ED) visits for febrile illness as a proxy for influenza … There was a strong correlation between weekly ED fever visit counts and positive flu isolates, both for the region …