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  • GIS Mapping of Occupational Health Visit Data from a Southeastern Ontario Tertiary Care Hospital

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    Health care workers (HCWs) have an increased risk of exposure to infectious agents including (among others) tuberculosis, influenza, norovirus, and Clostridium difficile as a consequence of patient care1,2 Most occupational transmission is… read more
    … Health care workers (HCWs) have an increased risk of exposure to … floors and departments of a Southeastern Ontario tertiary care hospital for the purpose of monitoring respiratory and … gastrointestinal (GI)-related Occupational Health (OH) visits among hospital employees. Document …
  • Can Telehealth Ontario Respiratory Call Volume be Used as a Proxy for Emergency Department Respiratory Visit Surveillance by Public Health?

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    The prompt detection of disease outbreaks is a major concern to public health as it has the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality (1). Real-time syndromic surveillance uses existing non-traditional data for timely analysis and feedback to… read more
    … relationship between Ontarioís emergency department (ED) visits and telephone health line (Telehealth Ontario) call … me_Be_Used_As_A_Proxy_For_Emergency_Department_Respiratory_Visit_Surveillance_By_Public_Health_.pdf 2 views Submitted … relationship between Ontario’s emergency department (ED) visits and telephone health line (Telehealth Ontario) call …
  • Facilitating the Sharing of Patient Information Between Health Care Providers

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    In the current state of the health care system there is uneven access to primary care, and too many people struggling to navigate the system are receiving care in the hospital for issues that would be better dealt with in the community, and then are… read more
    … In the current state of the health care system there is uneven access to primary care, and too many people struggling to navigate the system … In the current state of the health care system there is uneven access to primary care, and too … the Sharing of Patient Information Between Health Care Providers …
  • Emergency Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) for Public Health in Canada

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    In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more
    … with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care – Public Health Branch, Queen’s University, Public … with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC) – Public Health Branch, Queen’s University, … using a token-based authentica- tion system (Crypto-card). Many modifications have been made to the open source …
  • Acute Care Alerting and Integrated Public Health Investigation and Response to Syndromic Surveillance Alerts: Example of a Local Food Borne Outbreak

    Content Type: Abstract

    To highlight the key role of Emergency Department syn-dromic surveillance in linking acute care and public health, thus enabling collaborative detection, monitoring and management of a local food borne outbreak.
    … Department syn-dromic surveillance in linking acute care and public health, thus enabling collaborative … Acute Care Alerting and Integrated Public Health Investigation and … Surveillance (RODS)-based system captures real-time ED visits from 7 area hospitals and real-time admissions from 3 …
  • Absenteeism Among Employees in a Southeastern Ontario Hospital: A Novel Application of Syndromic Surveillance

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    Sickness absence is particularly pronounced within health care organizations where job demands and work environment expose workers to an increased risk of illness and injury, potentially leading to an inability to attend work.… read more
    … Sickness absence is particularly pronounced within health care organizations where job demands and work environment … Objective 1) To identify and describe Occupational Health visits (overall and specific conditions) among full-time … consider the associa- tion between absenteeism and Health Care Worker (HCW) exposure risk to infectious diseases based …
  • Early Detection and Integrated Response to Seasonal Influenza

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    A syndromic surveillance system has been implemented at Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health in Kingston Ontario as part of a pilot project funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care – Public Health Division… read more
    … funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care – Public Health Division. The information captured by … (implemented since SARS) for Emergency Department (ED) visits and information detailing hospital admissions.   … (ED) monitoring tool to involve public health, acute care and laboratory stakeholders in an integrated alerting …
  • Lessons Learned from an Extreme Heat Event using ACES for Situational Awareness, Ontario, Canada

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    The Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance (ACES) system provides syndromic surveillance for Ontario's acute care hospitals. ACES receives over 99% of acute care records for emergency department (ED) visits; mean daily volume is 17,500 visits. ACES uses a… read more
    … The Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance (ACES) system provides syndromic surveillance for Ontario's acute care hospitals. ACES receives over 99% of acute care records for emergency department (ED) visits; mean daily volume is 17,500 visits. ACES uses a …