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  • Adopting a common influenza-like illness syndrome across multiple health jurisdictions

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    Syndromic surveillance systems were designed for early outbreak and bioterrorism event detection. As practical experience shaped development and implementation, these systems became more broadly used for general surveillance and situational… read more
    … a distributed surveillance network for sharing de-identified aggregate emergency department syndromic … a distributed surveillance network for sharing de-identified aggregate emergency department (ED) syndromic … periods and epidemics. Use of the common syndrome did not have an overall or systematic cost in terms of …
  • Performance of a Syndromic Surveillance System for Detecting Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Following a Severe Windstorm

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    On December 14th, 2006, a severe windstorm in western Washington caused hundreds of thousands of residents to lose power. On December 15, 2006, there was a surge in emergency department (ED) visits for patients presenting with signs… read more
    … the storm to determine the extent of CO poisoning due to the windstorm. A retrospective analysis was later … the storm to deter- mine the extent of CO poisoning due to the wind- storm. A retrospective analysis was later … and diagnoses. Records from two hospitals (n=10) which did not participate in our syndromic surveillance system …
  • 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
    … ILI-s time-series visualized on the Distribute restricted website. Emerging Health Threats Journal 2011, 4:s48. doi: … could be visualized through the Distribute restricted website. Comparison of local ILI-narrow, ILI-broad and ILI-s … 1 Olson DR, Paladini M, Buehler JW, Mostashari F. Adv Dis Surv 2008;5:185 …
  • Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance

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    For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more
    … data available for research pur- poses) is to strip out all obvious identifi ers, while leaving in some information … of meeting participants. As a result, the participants did not attempt to clarify or redefi ne this boundary in the … Privacy Act (17), which is generally applicable to all U.S. government systems of records, and in other federal …
  • 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
    … of records at each ED missing patient disposition (top) and diagnosis (bottom) data over time. The heatmaps … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • What is the Value of a Positive Syndromic Surveillance Signal?

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    One criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of a surveillance system is the system’s positive predictive value. To our knowledge few studies have described the positive predictive value of syndromic surveillance signals… read more
    … departments (EDs) in King County. EDs send data on all visits that occurred the previous day. Aberrations in … we requested follow-up (positive predictive value 28.1%); 26/61 reports were not otherwise reported to Public Health. … by law. The primary limitation of this study is that we did not analyze signals that didn’t result in follow-up. …
  • 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
    … discharge month/ year, age, sex and zip code. We flagged all influenza admissions in the PHSKC system that did not have a matching record in CHARS. Next, we asked … data to monitor the severity of seasonal flu. Adv Dis Surveill. 2008;5: 161. …
  • Preliminary Look into the ICD9/10 Transition Impact on Public Health Surveillance

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    On October 1, 2015, the number of ICD codes will expand from 14,000 in version 9 to 68,000 in version 10. The new code set will increase the specificity of reporting, allowing more information to be conveyed in a single code. It is anticipated that… read more
    … and 5) Adjusting for changes in trends over time that are due to transitions in usage of codes by providers and … and 5) Adjusting for changes in trends over time that are due to transitions in usage of codes by providers and …