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  • Detecting Changes in Chief Complaint Word Count: Effects on Syndromic Surveillance

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    The New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) receives daily ED data from 49 of NYC’s 52 hospitals, representing approximately 95% of ED visits citywide. Chief complaint (CC) is categorized into syndrome groupings using… read more
    … NYC’s 52 hospitals, representing approximately 95% of ED visits citywide. Chief complaint (CC) is categorized into … and among EDs. The variations seen in CC word count may affect the quality and type of data received by the … DOHMH, thereby affecting the ability to detect syndrome visits consistently. Objective To identify changes in …
  • Evaluation of Temporal Aberration Detection Methods in New York City Syndromic Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    The NYC syndromic surveillance system has been monitoring syndromes from NYC emergency department (ED) visits for over a decade. We applied several aberration detection methodologies to a time series of ED visits in NYC spiked with synthetic… read more
    … monitoring syndromes from NYC emergency department (ED) visits for over a decade. We applied several aberration detection methodologies to a time series of ED visits in NYC spiked with synthetic outbreaks. This effort … monitoring syndromes from NYC emergency department (ED) visits for over a decade. We applied several aberration …
  • Building a Better Syndromic Surveillance System: the New York City Experience

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    The New York City (NYC) syndromic surveillance system has monitored syndromes from NYC emergency department (ED) visits since 2001, using the temporal and spatial scan statistic in SaTScan for aberration detection. Since our syndromic system was… read more
    … monitored syndromes from NYC emergency department (ED) visits since 2001, using the temporal and spatial scan … monitored syndromes from NYC emergency department (ED) visits since 2001, using the temporal and spatial scan …
  • Application of a Bayesian Spatiotemporal Surveillance Method to NYC Syndromic Data

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    As technology advances, the implementation of statistically and computationally intensive methods to detect unusual clusters of illness becomes increasingly feasible at the state and local level [2]. Bayesian methods allow for the incorporation of… read more
    … cluster detection [1] to NYC Emergency Department (ED) visits. Submitted by knowledge_repo… on Wed, 08/22/2018 - … cluster detection [1] to NYC Emergency Department (ED) visits. … Application of a Bayesian Spatiotemporal …
  • Reciprocal Data Sharing: Sending Monthly Summary Reports of Syndromic Data to ED

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    Over several months in 2012, NYC DOHMH syndromic surveillance staff met with directors of all 49 participating EDs in our syndromic system to collect information on their health information systems coding practices. During these interviews, ED… read more
    … they send to the syndromic unit, such as number of ED visits, most common complaints, and temporal and spatial … they send to the syndromic unit, such as number of ED visits, most common complaints, and temporal and spatial …
  • Surveillance of Heat-related Morbidity: Relation to Heat-related Excess Mortality

    Content Type: Abstract

    The impact of heat on mortality is well documented but deaths tend to lag extreme heat and mortality data is generally not available for timely surveillance during heat waves. Recently, systems for near-real time surveillance of heat illness… read more
    … of heat-related ambulance calls and emergency department visits and excess natural cause mortality in New York City. … of heat-related ambulance calls and emergency department visits and excess natural cause mortality in New York City. …
  • Risk of Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in Relation to Temperature

    Content Type: Abstract

    Extreme temperatures are consistently shown to have an effect on CVD-related mortality [1, 2]. A large multi-city study of mortality demonstrated a cold-day and hot-day weather effect on CVD-related deaths, with the larger impact occurring on the… read more
    … of temperature on CVD-related emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality on a large, … of temperature on CVD-related emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality on a large, …
  • Using Syndromic Surveillance to Investigate Tattoo-related Skin Infections in NYC

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2012, an outbreak of Mycobacterium chelonae infections in tattoo recipients in Rochester, NY was found to be associated with premixed tattoo ink contaminated before distribution.1 In May 2012, a case of M. chelonae was reported in a New York City… read more
    … premixed tattoo ink contaminated before distribution.1 In May 2012, a case of M. chelonae was reported in a New York … premixed tattoo ink contaminated before distribution.1 In May 2012, a case of M. chelonae was reported in a New York …