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  • Triage Notes in Syndromic Surveillance – A Double Edged Sword

    Content Type: Abstract

    The advent of Meaningful Use (MU) has allowed for the expansion of data collected at the hospital level and received by public health for syndromic surveillance. The triage note, a free text expansion on the chief complaint, is one of the many… read more
    … The advent of Meaningful Use (MU) has allowed for the expansion of data collected at the … Wed, 09/20/2017 - 10:07 … The advent of Meaningful Use (MU) has allowed for the expansion of data collected at the …
  • Emergency Department Data Quality Best Practices

    Content Type: Abstract

    Data quality for syndromic surveillance extends beyond validating and evaluating syndrome results. Data aggregators and data providers can take additional steps to monitor and ensure the accuracy of the data. In North Carolina,… read more
    … of data elements that should not change, i.e. time of visit, discharge disposition, etc. The aggregate trends monitored (for each hospital) include a) number of visits/day, b) percentage distributions for disposition, … acuity and insurance codes and c) percentage of visits that receive a diagnosis code, percentage that …
  • 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 … and all drug- related ED visits have similar curves *Y-axis not reported because data are preliminary and may …
  • Canine Tick Diagnoses are a Sentinel for Tick-borne Diseases in People

    Content Type: Abstract

    To determine if ticks on dogs can provide early warning for tick-borne diseases in people.
    … map). The prevalence of tick infestation per 1,000 dog visits was calculated, plotted by month for a five-year … prevalence of tick diagnoses ranged from 9 per 1,000 dog visits in summer to 3 per 1,000 visits in winter, with regular cycles occurring yearly. In …
  • Incorporating Wildlife Data into Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) serves public health users across North Carolina at the local, regional and state levels, providing syndromic surveillance capabilities.  At the state level,… read more
    … generated, providing a line listing of all the syndrome visits that contributed to the flag on that particular date. … PWC since January 1, 2005. During that time, 1377 patient visits representing 109 different species from 20 counties … and out of state have been reported, averaging seven visits per day. The most frequent animal types are birds, …
  • Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes

    Content Type: Abstract

    Emergency Department (ED) triage notes are clinical notes that expand upon the chief complaint, and are included in the AHIC minimum dataset for biosurveillance.1  Clinical notes can improve the accuracy of keyword-based syndromes but require… read more
    … a sample of NC DETECT records that included the 4432 ED visits with triage notes for 11/22/2006 and 11/23/2006. … submitted tri- age notes, which comprised 30% of all visits for those dates. We then manually selected a sample … and type of negation. The final sample included 177 visits con- taining negated terms, from 18 of the 19 NC DE- …
  • 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 … COUGH ASSOCIATED WITH BODY ACHES SYMPTOMS X 4 DAYS} FEVER VISITED AFRICA 5 WEEKS AGO. C/O FEVER AND VOMITING X 3 … uses only select EMT-P modules NegEx: https://code.google.com/p/negex/ © 2014 University of North Carolina at Chapel …
  • Editorial: 2012 ISDS Conference Proceedings

    Content Type: Abstract

    The International Society for Disease Surveillance held its eleventh annual conference in San Diego on December 4th and 5th, 2012, under the theme Expanding Collaborations to Chart a New Course in Public Health Surveillance. During these two days,… read more
    … highlight their potential for surveillance and research. My hope is that attendees of the 2012 ISDS Conference … highlight their potential for surveillance and research. My hope is that attendees of the 2012 ISDS Conference …