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  • Using a Syndromic Surveillance System to Evaluate the Impact of a Change in Alcohol Law

    Content Type: Abstract

    In November 2011, Washington State voters passed Initiative 1183 (I-1183) which closed state-owned and contracted liquor stores and opened the market for “hard liquor” sales in the private sector. The change in law was implemented on June 1, 2012.… read more
    … on June 1, 2012. Increases in alcohol-related ED visits were postulated as one potential impact if there was … were changes in alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits in Washington State associated with statewide alcohol … on June 1, 2012. Increases in alcohol-related ED visits were postulated as one potential impact if there was …
  • Evaluation of Electronic Ambulatory Care Data for Use in the Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet)

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … emergency department (ED) data accurately identified ILI visits in electronic ambulatory care data. Objective: To … emergency department (ED) data accurately identified ILI visits in electronic ambulatory care data. 3 views Submitted … emergency department (ED) data accurately identified ILI visits in electronic ambulatory care data. Objective: To …
  • 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
    … (Seattle & King County) or 317-221-3362 (Marion County) Email: Atar.Baer@kingcounty.gov, mrennick@hhcorp.org PROBLEM … 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, …
  • How Bad Is It? Using Biosurveillance Data to Monitor the Severity of Seasonal Flu

    Content Type: Abstract

    We sought to evaluate the validity of pneumonia and influenza hospitalizations (PI) data gathered by our biosurveillance system.
    … we collect include hospital name, date and time of visit, date of discharge, age, sex, home zip code, chief … was intubated or was in the ICU, and a patient and visit key. Data are transmitted daily, but due to delays in … by our biosurveillance system are captured daily for visits that occurred up to just one month earlier. We found …
  • Classification of Emergency Department Syndromic Data for Seasonal Influenza Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    We evaluated several classifications of emergency department (ED) syndromic data to ascertain best syndrome classifications for ILI.
    … with ED data. We used 6 classifications of ILI ED visit data for this analysis: (1) A chief complaint with …
  • The validity of emergency department influenza-like-illness (ILI) for laboratory-confirmed influenza in children

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … time of study. Results We studied approximately 14,000 visits during the discrete year and 32,000 visits during concomitant years. Viral results were … the official views of the CDC. *Carla Rodriguez E-mail: carlarod@uw.edu (page number not for citation purpose) …
  • Implications of ICD-9/10 CM Transition for Public Health Surveillance: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned from Multiple Sectors of Public Health

    Content Type: Abstract

    This roundtable provided a forum for a diverse set of representatives from the local, state, federal and international public health care sectors to share tools, resources, experiences, and promising practices regarding the potential impact of the… read more
    … Keywords ICD-9; ICD-10; Transition *Peter Hicks E-mail: phicks@cdc.gov Online Journal of Public Health …
  • Systematic Comparison of Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Varied approaches have been used by syndromic surveillance systems for aberration detection. However, the performance of these methods has been evaluated only across a small range of epidemic characteristics.   Objective… read more
    … syndromes having average daily counts of 2, 10, 35 and 50 visits per day. We then simulated epidemics by creating all …