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A Comparison of Electronic Emergency Department Visits and Data Collected Manually During a Field Exercise
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To compare the completeness of emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admissions data collected electronically for syndromic surveillance and data collected manually for a field surveillance exercise.… for a field surveillance exercise. BACKGROUND On February 26-27, 2008, NYC DOHMH staff participated in a field … public health emergency. Field surveillance staff visited 26 hospitals to collect data on ED visits and hospital … Disposition status is complete in approximately 1/3 of all visits by the next day and for >60% of all visits within …