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  • Finding Time-of-Arrival Clusters of Exposure-Related Visits to Emergency Departments in Contiguous Hospital Groups

    Content Type: Abstract

    Time-of-arrival (TOA) surveillance methodology consists of identifying clusters of patients arriving to a hospital emergency department (ED) with similar complaints within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently… read more
    … the statewide general/acute care hospital beds and 32% of all emergency department visits statewide. We present … the statewide general/acute care hospital beds and 32% of all ED visits statewide. We present findings from TOA … algorithms for automated bio- surveillance. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009;15:533�9. *Lana Deyneka E-mail: …
  • Negation Processing in Free Text Emergency Department Data for Public Health Surveillance

    Content Type: Use Case

    Materials associated with the Analytic Solutions for Real-Time Biosurveillance: Negation Processing in Free Text Emergency Department Data for Public Health Surveillance consultancy held January 19-20, 2017 at the University of Utah, Salt Lake… read more
    … and what level of skill do the users have? Are the users all within a single jurisdiction/organization? This solution … University of Utah patrick.alba@utah.edu Christopher Allen, MPH Director of Data Science EcoHealth Alliance …
  • Cross Disciplinary Consultancy: Negation Detection Use Case

    Content Type: Abstract

    Despite considerable effort since the turn of the century to develop Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods and tools for detecting negated terms in chief complaints, few standardised methods have emerged. Those methods that have emerged (e.g.… read more
    … text processing algorithms to identify negated terms (i.e. negation detection). 4 views Submitted by elamb on Tue, … text processing algorithms to identify negated terms (i.e. negation detection). …
  • Using Syndromic Surveillance for All-Hazards Public Health Surveillance: Successes, Challenges, and the Future

    Content Type: Journal Article

    Fifteen years have passed since the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 called for the establishment of nationwide surveillance and reporting mechanisms to detect bioterrorism-related events. In the… read more
    … established surveillance systems to detect prediagnostic (ie, before diagnoses are confirmed) signs and symptoms for … established surveillance systems to detect prediagnostic (ie, before diagnoses are confirmed) signs and symptoms for … Using Syndromic Surveillance for All-Hazards Public Health Surveillance: Successes, …
  • Identifying Emerging Novel Outbreaks In Textual Emergency Department Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Typical approaches to monitoring ED data classify cases into pre-defined syndromes and then monitor syndrome counts for anomalies. However, syndromes cannot be created to identify every possible cluster of cases of relevance to public health. To… read more
    … hospital location. The NC DPH dataset describes 198,511 de-identified ED visits over one year at 3 North Carolina … hospital location. The NC DPH dataset describes 198,511 de-identified ED visits over one year at 3 North Carolina …
  • Using NC DETECT Summary Reports to Share Syndromic Information

    Content Type: Abstract

    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) provides early event detection and public health situational awareness to hospital-based and public health users statewide. Authorized users are currently able… read more
    … In July 2008, an informal email-based survey was sent to all PHEs and the NC Division of Public Health PHE Program … any documented signal investigations, as well as export all of the tabular data to MS Word for further refinement … Wk. ending 08/23/08 38 EARS Signals & Comments 2008-08-26, Syndrome Count: 12, CUSUM Flag: C3. Comments: …
  • Animal bite surveillance using NC DETECT emergency department visit data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Animal bites may have potentially devastating consequences, including physical and emotional trauma, infection, rabies exposure, hospitalization, and, rarely, death. NC law requires animal bites be reported to local health directors. However,… read more
    … total ED visits were for 5�9 year olds (Fig. 1). Across all 3 years, males had a slightly higher proportion of … 1. Percentage of ICD-9-CM*�coded animal bite ED visits to all ED visits by patient age and year, 2008�2010, NC DETECT. … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • Improving syndromic surveillance for non-power users: NC DETECT dashboards

    Content Type: Abstract

    NC DETECT provides near-real-time statewide surveillance capacity to local, regional and state level users across NC with twice daily data feeds from 117 (99%) emergency departments (EDs), hourly updates from the statewide poison center, and daily… read more
    … to meet their surveillance needs. Keywords Dashboards; all-hazards surveillance; user interface design … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …