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  • Quantifying the relationship between influenza-related emergency department visits and hospital admissions in BioSense

    Content Type: Abstract

    Real-time emergency department (ED) data from the BioSense surveillance program for ILI visits and ILI admissions provide valuable insight into disease severity that bridges gaps in traditional influenza surveillance systems that monitor ILI in… read more
    … (ED) data from the BioSense surveillance program for ILI visits and ILI admissions provide valuable insight into … but do not quantify the relationship between ILI visits and hospital admissions. Objective The purpose of … analysis of clinically rich hospital data. Patterns of visits and severity measures such as the ratio of admissions …
  • Validation of Syndromic ILI Data for Use in CDC’s ILINet Surveillance, Pennsylvania

    Content Type: Abstract

    ILINet is a CDC program that has been used for years for influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance, using a network of outpatient providers who volunteer to track and report weekly the number of visits due to ILI and the total number of visits to… read more
    … who volunteer to track and report weekly the number of visits due to ILI and the total number of visits to their practice. Pennsylvania has a network of 95 … send chief complaint and other information on their ED visits to the Department of Health’s (PADOH) syndromic …
  • Comparison of Distribute and ILINet for national influenza surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    During the spring of 2009, a public health emergency was declared in response to the emergence of the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) virus. Owing to the response, timely data were needed to improve situational awareness and to inform… read more
    … reports of influenza-like illness (ILI) and total patient visits to EDs from participating health jurisdictions, … reports of influenza-like illness (ILI) and total patient visits to EDs from participating health jurisdictions, … sites where data were available. The weekly percent of visits because of ILI were calculated for each system. For …
  • October Public Health Practice Influenza Surveillance Webinar

    Content Type: Webinar

    Krista Kniss and Scott Epperson, from the CDC Influenza Division, will be joining the ISDS Public Health Practice Committee this coming Monday, October 22, for a two-part discussion of influenza surveillance in the United States and abroad. The… read more
    … the pandemic • Suggests reassortment of swine lineages may have occurred years before emergence in humans • … that sporadic infections or even localized outbreaks may occur in parts of the country that are yet unaffected • …