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  • Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … with concerns that the public or health care providers may have about sharing data with public health agencies: (a) … and for timely data. For example, in some instances, data may be needed daily to detect infectious disease outbreaks … sur- veillance parameters such as the date of health care visits, the Zip code or country of residence are considered …
  • New Master Mapping Reference Table (MMRT) to Assist ICD-10 Transition for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    As of October 1, 2015, all HIPAA covered entities transition from the use of International Classification of Diseases version 9 (ICD-9-CM) to version 10 (ICD-10-CM/PCS). Many Public Health surveillance entities receive, interpret, analyze, and… read more
    … as well as for research purposes. The mappings may be leveraged by other federal, state, and local public … as well as for research purposes. The mappings may be leveraged by other federal, state, and local public …
  • 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 … by our biosurveillance system are captured daily for visits that occurred up to just one month earlier. We found …
  • 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
    … 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, …
  • Adopting a common influenza-like illness syndrome across multiple health jurisdictions

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … time-series, subsyndrome and age-specific distribution of visits and signal-to-noise measures. Results We found less … pubmed/21894257. *Don Olson E-mail: drolson@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • 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
    … tion of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) com- pared to most years, and (2) the ‘‘concomitant’’ … Confidence Interval [CI]: 0.30, 0.68) and 0.72 (CI: 0.70, 0.74) respectively, for the ‘‘Febrile’’ definition and … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • 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.
    … for classification of syndromic data for tracking ILI may differ regionally, so previously pub- lished study … and excluded one hospital that did not provide ED chief com- plaints. The weekly number of positive viral cultures … with ED data. We used 6 classifications of ILI ED visit data for this analysis: (1) A chief complaint with …
  • What is the Value of a Positive Syndromic Surveillance Signal?

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 the … we requested follow-up (positive predictive value 28.1%); 26/61 reports were not otherwise reported to Public Health. … dependent upon the prevalence of disease, these results may differ in other settings. REFERENCES [1] Centers for …