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  • 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
    … codes assigned after evaluation of the patient (due within 30 days of each calendar quarter). Objective To … Complaint Data.pdf 1 view Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … codes assigned after evaluation of the patient (due within 30 days of each calendar quarter). Methods The …
  • 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
    … the New York State (NYS) Department of Health emergency de- partment (ED) syndromic surveillance system uses … the false positives, we de- termined whether they were due to a correctable defi- ciency in the classifier. We … 23% (18%-28%) 60% (51%-69%) PPV CORRECTED (95% CIS) 31% (26%-36%) 79% (72%-86%) False positive CC were usually due to …
  • 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
    … days, and 96% within 30 days of discharge. There were 26,514 matched patients, who accounted for 99% of the SPARCS … filtered diag- nosis. Fourteen (6.5%) patients did not have a matching ICD-9 filtered SPARCS diagnosis. … well. Adding P and I text filters to RHIO A diagnosis did not significantly improve pneumonia or influenza case …
  • The Exploration of Various Methods for Shigella Outbreak Detection

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    Shigella remains highly infectious in the United States and rapid detection of Shigella outbreaks is crucial for disease control and timely public health actions. The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) implemented a Communicable Disease… read more
    … except for the cumulative sum-related methods, which used all cases. The sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP), positive … created when the case number exceeded the baseline mean, i.e., mean of previous two weeks, plus three standard … 3 HL 64% 90% 27% 98% 33 NBC 43% 80% 11% 96% 56 The SPs did not vary much across six methods while the SE of the PO …
  • 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
    … 1.00 Pleurisy 0.22% 0.02 1.00 0.22 1.00 Resp Failure 0.26% 0.00 1.00 0.08 1.00 Table 2 – Gastrointestinal …
  • 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
    … had complete data (388 cases). We found that visits for all peaks were classified easily into sub-syndromes. Except … A scan of the summary data revealed the excess was due to visits by children on a Sunday. Conclusion: The data … We speculate that the peak in pediatric fever visits was due to limited availability of pediatric services on a …
  • 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
    … which they would like to view data; Region or County: For all three data resources, summary counts, CuSum analysis … and Local Health Departments (LHDs) may view ED data for all hospitals in their county, as well as aggregated data … health-related data for indicators of diseases due to natural causes, terrorist agents, and chemical, …
  • 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
    … weeks) episode that was possibly infectious in origin. We did not count the visit within a GI sub-syndrome if another …