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Preliminary Analysis of SaTScan's Effectiveness to Detect Known Disease Outbreaks Using Emergency Department Syndromic Data in Los Angeles County
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Los Angeles County Department of Health Services is currently testing SaTScan’s space-time permutation model to assist in identifying aberrant illness activity in the community and determine it’s ability to detect … read more… data. SaTScan could be useful especially due to its ability to provide geographic locations of … syndromic data. SaTScan could be useful especially due to its ability to provide geographic locations of … gastro-intestinal, 2,082 rash, 958 neurological, and 26,042 respiratory cases. The retrospective option found 59 … -
A Comparison of Fever Classified Chief Complaints and Diagnoses with Recorded Body Temperatures
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The LAC SSS has been in existence since 2004. Currently, the system collects data from over 50 hospitals daily and performs a chief complaint-based syndrome classification analysis of all ED visits. The keyword “fever” is of special interest due to… read more… chief complaint-based syndrome classification analysis of all ED visits. The keyword “fever” is of special interest due to its inclusion within several syndrome category … chief complaint-based syndrome classification analysis of all ED visits. The keyword “fever” is of special interest …