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  • Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot

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    The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more
    … departments for their own surveillance needs. Originally, sites were asked to send whatever syndrome definition they … to send their broader, higher count syndrome. In 2008, sites were asked to send both a broad syndrome, and a narrow … illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot DR …
  • How good is your data?

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    Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health… read more
    … provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … create some unique data quality issues, with considerable site to site variability. Together with the ISDS, the … of data quality results across participating Distribute sites. Document How_Good_Is_Your_Data.pdf 4 views Submitted …
  • Using Change Point Detection for Monitoring the Quality of Aggregate Data

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    Data consisting of counts or indicators aggregated from multiple sources pose particular problems for data quality monitoring when the users of the aggregate data are blind to the individual sources. This arises when agencies wish to share data but… read more
    … was designed to work solely with aggregated data, with sites providing data aggregated from sources within their … long-term changes in the source make up of the reporting sites and lack of data timeliness due to individual site data accruing over time rather than in batch. Data …
  • Monitoring winter-seasonal acute gastroenteritis emergency department visits by age

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    Epidemic acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a major contributor to the global burden of morbidity and mortality. Rotavirus and norovirus epidemics present a significant burden annually, with their predominant impact in temperate climates occurring… read more
    … pilot for monitoring AGE syndromic emergency department visits, and present preliminary analysis of age-specific … inter_Seasonal_Acute_Gastroenteritis_Empergency_Department_Visits_By_Age.pdf 3 views Submitted by elamb on Thu, … acute gastroenteritis emergency department visits by age Don Olson1*, Ian Painter2 and ISDS Distribute …
  • Traditional and Mobile Public Health Alert Communications with Health Care Providers

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    The effectiveness of emergency preparedness and response systems depends, in part, on the effectiveness of communication between agencies and individuals involved in emergency response, including health care providers who play a significant role in… read more
    … involved in emergency response, including health care providers who play a significant role in planning, … the importance of communicating clinical data from health care providers to public health agencies for purposes of … involved in emergency response, including health care providers who play a significant role in planning, …
  • Rapid ad-hoc cross-jurisdictional sharing of syndrome data using Distribute technology

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    Cross-jurisdictional sharing of public health syndrome data is useful for many reasons, among them to provide a larger regional or national view of activity and to determine if unusual activity observed in one jurisdiction is atypical. Considerable… read more
    … of recent interest: alcohol related and heat related ED visits. Objective To demonstrate how rapid adhoc sharing of … of recent interest: alcohol-related and heat-related ED visits. Methods The Distribute system was initially designed … jurisdictions and a pilot has been undertaken to compare sites with preferred definitions and to develop a common ILI …
  • The validity of emergency department influenza-like-illness (ILI) for laboratory-confirmed influenza in children

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    Syndromic surveillance systems use electronic health-related data to support near-real time disease surveillance. Over the last 10 years, the use of ILI syndromes defined from emergency department (ED) data has become an increasingly accepted… read more
    … lab-confirmed influenza: (1) ILI from chief complaint (CC) or diagnoses codes (‘‘ILI’’); (2) ILI from CC alone; (3) febrile illness from CC or diagnoses … time of study. Results We studied approximately 14,000 visits during the discrete year and 32,000 visits during …
  • Visualizing Data Quality: Tools and Views

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    Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health department… read more
    … provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … some unique data quality issues, with considerable site to site variability. Together with the ISDS, the University of … provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. …