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  • The Utility of Patient Chief Complaint and ICD 9 Classifiers for the Influenza Sub-Syndrome

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    In order to detect influenza outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance system uses patients’ chief complaint (CC) to assign visits to respiratory and fever syndromes… read more
    … surveillance system uses patients’ chief complaint (CC) to assign visits to respiratory and fever syndromes. Recently, the … surveillance system uses patients’ chief complaint (CC) to assign visits to res- piratory and fever syndromes. Recently, the … surveillance system uses patients’ chief complaint (CC) to assign visits to respiratory and fever syndromes. …
  • 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
    … and Prevention BioSense has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub syndrome classifiers for the … department population and the performance of these CC classifiers have been little studied. Chart reviews have … by chart reviews to estimate the performance of a CC classifier.   Objective To determine the prevalence of …
  • Detection of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Chief Complaint Data

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    Following an Oct 12-13, 2006 snowstorm, almost 400,000 homes in western New York lost power, some for up to 12 days. News reports said that emergency rooms saw many patients with CO exposure; 3 deaths were attributed to CO poisoning. As part of NYS… read more
    … system, electronic ED records with a free-text CC field listing the symptoms reported by the patient are sent to NYS DOH daily. Each CC is searched for text strings indicating complaints in one … of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning from chief complaints (CC) in hospital emergency department (ED) records submitted …
  • Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI Syndrome

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … BioSense project has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub-syndrome classifiers for the … value of New York State hospital emergency department CC classifiers for patients < 60 months of age and > 60 … York State hospital emergency department chief complaint (CC) classifiers for patients < 60 months of age and > 60 …
  • Carbon Monoxide Poisoning during Hurricane Sandy in Affected New York State Counties

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    CO poisoning is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in disaster and post-disaster situations, when widespread power outages most likely occur (1, 2). The NYSDOH Syndromic Surveillance System receives daily ED visit chief complaint data from… read more
    … NYSDOH Syndromic Surveillance System receives daily ED visit chief complaint data from 140 NYS (excluding New York … between power outage and the numbers of CO-related ED visits (CO-EDs). 4 views Submitted by Magou on Mon, … NYSDOH Syndromic Surveillance System receives daily ED visit chief complaint data from 140 NYS (excluding New York …
  • The New York State Department of Health’s Syndromic Surveillance System

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    The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System consists of five components: 1. Emergency Department (ED) Phone Call System monitors unusual events or clusters of illnesses in the EDs of participating hospitals;… read more
    … of Defense and Veterans Administration outpatient care clinical data (ICD-9-CM diag-noses and CPT procedure … ED Surveillance System monitors ED chief complaint (CC) data; 3. Medicaid data system monitors Medicaid-paid … Defense (DOD) and Veterans Administration (VA) outpatient care clinical data (ICD-9-CM diag- noses and CPT procedure …
  • Investigating Syndromic Peaks Using Remotely Available Electronic Medical Records

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    One limitation of syndromic surveillance systems based on emergency department (ED) data is the time and expense to investigate peak signals, especially when that involves phone calls or visits to the hospital. Many EDs use electronic medical… read more
    … signals, especially when that involves phone calls or visits to the hospital. Many EDs use electronic medical … signals, especially when that involves phone calls or visits to the hospital. Many EDs use electronic medical … or absence of selected pertinent data elements for each visit, and also to assign each visit to one or more defined …
  • The utility of inpatient data obtained from regional health information organizations for pneumonia and influenza surveillance

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    Hospital discharge data received by public health agencies has a reporting lag time of greater than six months. This data is often used retrospectively to conduct surveillance to assess severity of illness and outcome, and for… read more
    … one participating hospital system composed of five acute-care facilities.   Objective The objective of this paper is … one participating hospital system composed of five acute-care facilities. Methods Inpatient data for visit dates between 1 June and 29 October 2009 were selected …