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  • A Controlled Vocabulary for "Reason for Visit" in Ambulatory Encounters

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    Objective: To enable improved health surveillance and clinical decision support within ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems.
    … 254 unique terms and 21,951 (3.8%) listed as “Other”. The top 10 terms captured 45%, the top 50 captured 83%, and the … are listed in the table below. Terms that correspond to all of these terms (as well as their more specific child … 7.3% 14.9% PAIN 11445 6.6% 21.4% COLD SYMPTOMS 8970 5.1% 26.6% SORE THROAT 7513 4.3% 30.9% FEVER 7080 4.1% 34.9% …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Practice in the United States: Findings from a Survey of State, Territorial, and Selected Local Health Departments

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    In 2007-2008, the authors surveyed public health officials in 59 state, territorial, and selected large local jurisdictions in the United States regarding their conduct and use of syndromic surveillance. Fifty-two (88%) responded, representing areas… read more
    … useful for detecting typical community outbreaks. Nearly all plan to include syndromic surveillance as part of their … from three state health departments who reported they did not conduct syndromic surveillance noted that local … and least useful for detecting small outbreaks. Nearly all plan to include syndromic surveillance as part of their …
  • Review of the ISDS Distributed Surveillance Taskforce for Real-time Influenza Burden Tracking & Evaluation (DiSTRIBuTE) Project 2007/08 Influenza Season Proof-of-concept Phase

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    This paper describes the initiation, development and proof-of-concept phase of the ISDS DiSTRIBuTE influenza morbidity surveillance project [1].
    … 0 20 08 -1 5 20 08 -2 0 Midwestern State A Western City A All DiSTRIBuTE Sites 20 06 -4 20 06 -9 20 06 -1 4 20 06 -1 9 … 1/ 6/ 20 07 2/ 10 /2 00 7 3/ 17 /2 00 7 4/ 21 /2 00 7 5/ 26 /2 00 7 6/ 30 /2 00 7 8/ 4/ 20 07 9/ 8/ 20 07 10 /1 3/ 20 … CDC sentinel ILI and viral influenza isolate data (top); and age-specific temporal epidemic response surface …
  • Visualization of Syndromic Surveillance Using GIS

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    Syndromic Surveillance has been in use in New York City since 2001, with 2.5 million visits reported from 39 participating emergency departments, covering an estimated 75% of annual visits. As syndromic surveillance becomes increasingly spatial and… read more
    … the SaTScan program for much of its spatial analysis (i.e. cluster analysis).   Objective This paper describes a … the SaTScan program for much of its spatial analysis (i.e. cluster analysis). METHODS In the case of the DOHMH … May 18;4(1):11. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006;1:26 Visualization of Syndromic Surveillance Using GIS GIS …
  • The Use of Rapid Diagnostic Assays to Supplement Syndromic Surveillance: Preliminary Results of a Pilot Project in New York City

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    Syndromic surveillance systems can detect increases in respiratory and gastrointestinal illness, but diagnosis of etiologic agents can be delayed due to difficult, time-consuming identification and low rates of testing for viral pathogens. Rapid… read more
    … illness, but diagnosis of etiologic agents can be delayed due to difficult, time-consuming identification and low … illness, but diagnosis of etiologic agents can be delayed due to difficult, time-consuming identification and low … and GI panels. Using RD assays, the Laboratory tests all respiratory and GI specimens collected during routine …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition Development Using Recursive Partitioning Techniques for Highly Dimensional Databases

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    Seasonal influenza accounts for a high proportion of outpatient morbidity during the winter months. However, influenza case counts are greatly underestimated due to frequently undiagnosed influenza. Electronic medical record (EMR… read more
    … However, influenza case counts are greatly underestimated due to frequently undiagnosed influenza. Electronic … However, influenza case counts are greatly underestimated due to frequently undiagnosed influenza. EMR systems provide … 86403 - Particle agglutination, 87070 - Skin test; TB). All other variables fell out of the analysis. Figure 1 - …
  • Predicting Probabilities of Flu Vaccination and Commuting Methods Having Elevated Flu Transmission Probabilities in New York City

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    Aerial transmission and direct contact are important factors for flu. Consequently, close contact with large groups of people, such as during mass transit, present opportunities for transmission. One protective method that… read more
    … Health Survey (CHS), we fit a logistic model with the di- chotomous dependent variable “received flu vaccine” and … express bus or commuter train, and “0” if the subject did not commute or commuted by bicycle, walking, car, taxi …
  • Using Age & Syndrome to Characterize Epidemic Winter-Seasonal Acute Gastroenteritis

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    We describe age- and syndrome-specific emergency department (ED) visit patterns for diarrhea and vomiting associated with periods of confirmed epidemic rotavirus and presumed epidemic norovirus in New York City (NYC).
    … 1 view Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … and death worldwide. Winter AGE epidemics are commonly due to rotavirus (RV) or norovirus (NV). Epidemic RV … occurring outside these confirmed RV periods was presumed due to NV. Estimates of age- and syndrome-specific excess ED …