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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… GIS Mapping of Occupational Health Visit Data from a Southeastern Ontario Tertiary Care … GIS Mapping of Occupational Health Visit Data from a Southeastern Ontario Tertiary Care Hospital … -
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… me_Be_Used_As_A_Proxy_For_Emergency_Department_Respiratory_Visit_Surveillance_By_Public_Health_.pdf Submitted by elamb … be Used as a Proxy for Emergency Department Respiratory Visit Surveillance by Public Health? Adam van Dijk MSc, Don … be Used as a Proxy for Emergency Department Respiratory Visit Surveillance by Public Health? … -
Cross Border Syndromic Surveillance- Overview and Recommendations from an ISDS Consultation Held in Kingston, Ontario Canada, June 11-12th, 2007
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The objectives of the two day International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) funded consultation were to develop expert, consensus-based recommendations that address specific, unanswered questions that hinder advances in cross border… read more… that address specific, unanswered questions that hinder advances in cross border syndromic surveillance. The … that address specific, unanswered questions that hinder ad- vances in cross border syndromic surveillance. … that address specific, unanswered questions that hinder advances in cross border syndromic surveillance. The … -
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… the databases. The conditions/ syndromes within the OH visit data are pre- determined by the system, and classified … -
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… captured in real-time: chief complaint, data/time of visit, hospital name, age, gender and 5- digit postal code … -
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… postal code of resi- dence, hospital and date and time of visit. DATA ELEMENTS Admission data – The physician’s … -
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.… It was not known whether the characteristics of chief com- plaints would allow for accurate classification using … data. Epidemiological and clinical assessment from the com- parison of the two servers indicated that the Maximum … Further Information: Kevin O’Connor, koconnor@cissec.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;2:23 … -
Emergency Department Surveillance of Alcohol-Related Violence and Injuries to Enable Event Monitoring and Management
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Syndromic surveillance has been used been used as method of surveillance for various events in recent years. For example, post September 11th, 2001 anthrax attacks in New York City, World Youth Day in Toronto 2002, Salt Lake City 2002 Olympics,… read more… alerts). All - s_homecoming Figure 1– EARS graph of ED visit volumes for Homecoming syndrome – Queen’s University …