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  • 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
    … The NC DPH dataset describes 198,511 de-identified ED visits over one year at 3 North Carolina hospitals. The data … The NC DPH dataset describes 198,511 de-identified ED visits over one year at 3 North Carolina hospitals. The data …
  • Approaches to Syndromic Case Definitions for Drug Overdose Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    This focus of this webinar is to describe different syndromic surveillance approaches to drug overdose surveillance. Presenters will share how their case definitions were developed, stakeholders involved, intended audience and uses, as well as… read more
    … "  ED syndromic rapid data collection "  26 ED visits for every one OPR death !  Identify drug … the frequency of words appearing in drug overdose ED visits "  ED visits identified and uniquely identified by … substance abuse Case Definitions !  Any drug-related ED visit "  Drug overdose "  Substance abuse "  Drug not …
  • Data for Health Surveillance

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented December 6, 2016 Amy Ising presented these slides during the ISDS Pre-Conference Workshop as part of the 2016 ISDS Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This presentation provices an introduction to Syndromic Surveillance, an overview… read more
    … today with back pain. Fever/Rash GI-Severe Free Text ED visit Data  Syndrome © 2016 University of North Carolina at … ask the coder to document whether or not this healthcare visit is for an initial encounter (code ends in “A”), …
  • Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) receives daily emergency department (ED) data from 33 (29%) of the 114 EDs in North Carolina. These data are available via a Web-based portal and the Early… read more
    … syndrome queries. METHODS We selected a sample of 500 ED visits from the 2004 NC BEIPS data warehouse. Two hundred … categories based on clinical case definition. All visits were electronically processed for SS twice, once … syndrome designations generated false positives for some visits that did not meet the syndrome definitions according …
  • 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
    … Word functionality was added. In July 2008, an informal email-based survey was sent to all PHEs and the NC Division … noted Of the four users who responded to the informal email survey (36%), all found the report to be useful. …
  • The Utility of Biosurveillance for Public Health Practice: The Findings from Two Case Studies

    Content Type: Abstract

    States and localities are using biosurveillance for a variety purposes including event detection, situational awareness, and response. However, little is known about the impact of biosurveillance on the operational components… read more
    … and Tarrant County, Texas Advance Practice Center. Site visits were conducted to each of these cases in July, 2007 …
  • North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System

    Content Type: Abstract

    NC BEIPS is a system designed and developed by the NC Division of Public Health (DPH) for early detection of disease and bioterrorism outbreaks or events. It analyzes emergency department (ED) data on a daily basis from 33 (29%) EDs in North… read more
    … generated, providing a line listing of all the syndrome visits that contributed to the flag on that particular date. …
  • Access to and use of syndromic surveillance information at the local health department level

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance data have been widely shown to be useful to large health departments. Use at smaller local health departments (LHDs) has rarely been described, and the effectiveness of various methods of delivering syndromic… read more
    … of Epidemiology, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC, USA E-mail: erika.samoff@unc.edu Objective To characterize use of …