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  • Improving System Ability to Identify Symptom Complexes in Free-Text Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Text-based syndrome case definitions published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)1 form the basis for the syndrome queries used by the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT). Keywords within these… read more
    … OBJECTIVE This paper describes a novel approach to the con- struction of syndrome queries written in Structured … bioter- rorism-associated agents. Available at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/ surveillance/syndromedef/index.asp. Accessed … SQL Server 2005 Books Online, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library /ms174214.aspx, Accessed June 29, 2006. …
  • Web-Based Spatio-Temporal Display of NC DETECT Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    NC DETECT is the Web-based early event detection and timely public health surveillance system in the North Carolina Public Health Information Network. The reporting system also provides broader public health surveillance reports for… read more
    … data trends statewide. REFERENCES [1] NC DETECT. http://www.ncdetect.org . [2] Adobe Flash. http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/. Advances in Disease Surveillance …
  • 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
    … h/a. Many negated terms, however, were not addressed and con- tinue to create false positive syndrome hits. The pur- … type of negation. The final sample included 177 visits con- taining negated terms, from 18 of the 19 NC DE- TECT … scope, e.g. “states” or “now.” REFERENCES [1]http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic/materials/meeting10/bio/BDS …
  • 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
    … to add comments, select a severity level and view the com- ments of other users in their jurisdiction(s). Several …
  • Situational Awareness Using Web-based Annotation and Custom Reporting

    Content Type: Abstract

    While early event detection systems aim to detect disease outbreaks before traditional means, following up on the many alerts generated by these systems can be time-consuming and a drain on limited resources. Authorized users at local, regional… read more
    … diagnoses, due to the latency in receiving ICD-9-CM final diagnosis codes. The queries account for … Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2004 May http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no5/03- 0646.htm. Accessed July … Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:167 http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no5/03-0646.htm …
  • 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
    … conducted an aggregate study of the timeliness of ICD-9-CM final diagnosis codes transmitted to NC DETECT [2]. We … [1] North Carolina General Statute 130A-480. http://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByChapt …
  • 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
    … Samoff et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 78 LHDs, and some LHD staff members … Health Threats Journal E Samoff et al. 2011, 4:s111 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 79 …
  • 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
    … input datasets and variable names !  Flexibility "  ICD-9-CM search on drug overdose cases !  Local adaptation and … notes "  Compare word search findings against ICD-9-CM codes for internal consistency "  Compare word search … " NC#DETECT#Case#Defini6ons# ! hWps://www.ncdetect.org/dataUreports/caseU defini6ons## ! …