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  • Relationship between Clinical Screening Tools, Syndromic Surveillance, and Influenza-Positive Patients

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    In 2003, with the advent of SARS, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) released a document mandating the use of a clinical screening tool to detect patients at high risk for having a febrile respiratory illness (FRI), defined… read more
    … Committee, Triage in Ontario. 2005; Available at: http://www.oha.com/client/OHA/OHA_LP4W_LND_WebStatio …
  • Chart Review of Laboratory-Confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis Cases in a Local Food Borne Outbreak Linked to Mung Bean Sprouts

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    A retrospective chart review was performed to examine chief complaint, syndrome classification and discharge diagnoses of laboratory confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis phage type (PT) 13 cases who visited the Emergency Departments (ED) of two local… read more
    … Public Health, located in Kingston, Ontario has been con- ducting Emergency Department (ED) Syndromic Surveil- … in November 2005. A comparison was made between the chief com- plaint, syndrome classification and discharge … using a free-text medical diagnosis classifier. The chief com- plaints and discharge diagnoses were as follows (Figure …
  • 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 …
  • 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
    … in Community Settings. March 2004. Available at: http://www.health.gov.on.ca/english/providers/pro- … gram/infectious/syndromes/standards/guide_fri_comm_031104 .pdf [2] Canadian Association of Emergency … (CTAS). Version 16: 11/30/1998. Available at: http://www.caep.ca/002.policies/ 002-docs/ctased16.pdf Further …
  • Ontario's Telehealth: A Novel Snydromic Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Ontario Telehealth Telephone Helpline (henceforth referred to as “Telehealth”) was implemented in Ontario in 2001. It is administered by Clinidata, a private contractor hired by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care,… read more
    … Further Information: Elizabeth Rolland, erolland@gmail.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:190 …
  • Canadian and United States Cross-Border Collaboration for Syndromic Surveillance: Overview and Recommendations from an International Society for Disease Surveillance

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    The objectives of this consultation, supported by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS), were to develop expert, consensus-based recommendations to promote Canadian and U.S. collaboration in using syndromic surveillance (SS) to… read more
    … model using a Wiki (accessible via the ISDS Web page, www.syndromic.org) although a key difference is that the … Food recalls and allergy alerts. CFIA Web site. http://www.inspection.gc.ca/eng- … withdrawals and safety alerts. FDA Web site. http://www.fda. gov/opacom/7alerts.html. 3. Public Health Agency of …
  • Multi-Sectored Approach to Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System

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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
    … Branch. March 2004 Version 1.0. Available at: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/csc- … (No. RR-5): [inclusive page numbers] Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ PDF/rr/rr5305.pdf Advances in Disease …
  • SDOH Integration into Syndromic Surveillance and Emergency Response Systems

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented December 6, 2016   Dr. Kieran Moore and Dr. Paul Belanger presented the following slides during the 2016 ISDS Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This presentation provides an overview of integrating Social Determinates of… read more
    … needs patient identification with Acute Inpatients. www.phims.ca A real time environmental health surveillance … obligations, surveillance, situational awareness, • www.kflaphi.ca http://www.kflaphi.ca/ EH REAL TIME Module • Air Quality (both AQI …