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  • The evaluation of influenza surveillance data elements for the health information exchange minimum data set

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    The American Health Information Community Harmonized Use Case for the Biosurveillance minimum data set (MDS) was implemented to establish data exchange between regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and the New York State Department of… read more
    … for emergency department (ED), in-patient, and outpatient visits. Compare the characteristics of patients meeting the … for emergency department (ED), in-patient, and outpatient visits. Compare the characteristics of patients meeting the … surveillance. Methods In-patient, outpatient, and ED visit data from one hospital in RHIO A between June and …
  • ICD9 as a Surrogate for Chart Review in the Validation of a Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System

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    The existing New York State Department of Health emergency department syndromic surveillance system has used patient’s chief complaint (CC) for assigning to six syndrome categories (Respiratory, Fever, Gastrointestinal, Neurological, Rash, Asthma… read more
    … process and allow us to survey a much larger sample of visits. Document … frequent ICD-9 CM based sub- syndromes. The proportion of visits contributing to the 20 most common ED chief complaint … process and allow us to survey a much larger sample of visits. …
  • Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI Syndrome

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense project has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub-syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. This has the potential to… read more
    … a retrospective study of emergency department (ED) visits at four New York State hospitals from May 1, 2005 to April 30, 2007. These hospitals have annual ED visits ranging from 24,000 to 33,000 and have electronic … was possibly infectious in origin. We did not count the visit within a GI sub-syndrome if another specific etiology …
  • A Pilot Study of Aberration Detection Algorithms with Simulated Data

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    To evaluate four algorithms with varying baseline periods and adjustment for day of week for anomaly detection in syndromic surveillance data.   read more
    … for detecting anomalies in daily emergency depart- ment visit data for 130 hospitals with 6 syndrome categories. …
  • The Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI and RESP Syndromes

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. The prevalence of these sub… read more
    … of a CC classifier. Methods: A retrospective study of ED visits at four New York State hospitals from May 1, 2005 to … was performed. These hospitals have annual volumes of ED visits from 24,000 to 33,000 and have electronic medical …