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Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance
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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… bioterrorism- associated agents. Available at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/syndromedef/ [3] Wagner, MM, … -
Multi-Tier Role Based Access for Secure and Flexible Syndromic Surveillance
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NC DETECT receives data on at least a daily basis from five data sources: emergency departments (ED), the statewide poison center (CPC), the statewide EMS data collection system, a regional wildlife center and laboratories from the NC State College… read more… [1] North Carolina General Statute 130A-480. http://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/B … -
Asyndromic Cluster Detection Use Case
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Use for the Analytic Solutions for Real-Time Surveillance: Asyndromic Cluster Detection consultancy held June 9-10, 2015 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Problem Summary A syndrome cannot be created to… read more… Medicine Phone: 919-966-8853 Email: ising@ad.unc.edu Co-submitters and affiliations: Lana Deyneka & Jenna … occur over a longer time period. For example, if 5 people come into an emergency department complaining about “Larry’s … -
Animal bite surveillance using NC DETECT emergency department visit data
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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… complaint and triage note keyword searches and ICD-9-CM codes. Using the Animal Bite Keyword Report, statewide ED … of case definition keywords. Using the Animal Bite ICD-9-CM Code Report, statewide ED visit data were extracted for 2008�2010. The following ICD-9-CM injury codes are included in this report: E906.0 (dog … -
Canine Tick Diagnoses are a Sentinel for Tick-borne Diseases in People
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To determine if ticks on dogs can provide early warning for tick-borne diseases in people.… which the word “tick” appeared using NC DETECT, 3. ICD-9-CM discharge diagnoses of tick-related illnesses from all NC … 1479 ED visits for the first six months of 2008. An ICD-9-CM code of “Lyme Disease” was recorded 65 times from 34 … -
Finding Time-of-Arrival Clusters of Exposure-Related Visits to Emergency Departments in Contiguous Hospital Groups
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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… 2011. 2. Tokars JI, Burkom H, Xing J, English R, Bloom S, Cox K, et al. Enhancing time-series detection algorithms for … -
Evaluating the Validity of ED Visit Data for Biosurveillance
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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) receives a designated set of data elements electronically available from 110 emergency departments (EDs) (98%) on at least a daily basis via… read more… Date and Time; Chief Complaint; Date of Birth; ICD-9-CM Final Diagnosis Codes (n=4); ED Disposition; select …