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Infection Watch Live- A Real-time, Geospatial Mapping Tool of Hospital Triage Data for Public Consumption
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To inform health professionals and the public directly about real-time utilization of local Emergency Departments for respiratory and gastrointestinal illness to enable enhanced communication and collaboration between Public Health and health care… read more… directly about real-time utilization of local Emergency De- partments for respiratory and gastrointestinal illness … related diseases are of par- ticular importance due to the rapid transmission and potential burden such … as a highly valued and worthwhile approach to dis- ease surveillance [1]. Our new system will be known as … -
Integration of Hospital Admissions, Febrile Respiratory Illness Screening and Triage Acuity Score into an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System
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This paper outlines the integration of hospital admission, Febrile Respiratory Illness (FRI) screening and Canadian Triage and Acuity Score (CTAS) data streams within an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance system. These data elements allow… read more… Canada (PHAC), Kingston General Hospital (KGH) and Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH). At this time, the University of … Implementation guidelines for the Canadian emergency de- partment triage and acuity scale (CTAS). Version 16: … -
Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification
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This paper describes a novel approach to the statistical classification of free-text chief complaints for the purpose of syndromic surveillance.… 2004. The system collects real time data from seven ED’s all of which capture a free-text chief complaint. As these … it analyzes only at the word level, and it treats all words/word pairs as statistically independent entities. … syndromes re- mains relatively low and highly variable due to the low availability of training data. … -
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… absence not reported to OH (44%). Patient contact did not remain statistically significant after adjusting for … -
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… the absolute necessity of early warning to mitigate dis- ease spread. For this reason, ED syndromic surveillance … of previous influenza seasons demonstrated that in all previous influenza seasons, the RODS Recursive Least … -
Acute Care Alerting and Integrated Public Health Investigation and Response to Syndromic Surveillance Alerts: Example of a Local Food Borne Outbreak
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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.… basis and a continuous feedback loop was established with all stake- holders leading to efficient identification of … terviews revealed diarrhea to be a common symptom among all ill cases. Levels of GI syndrome (diarrhea +/- other … the sensitivity of the ED syndromic surveillance tool to de- tect a local GI outbreak. The integration of syndromic …