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A Comparison of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Department Encounters as Data Sources for Detection of Clusters of Lower Gastrointestinal Illness
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We sought to compare ambulatory care (AC) and emergency department (ED) data for the detection of clusters of lower gastrointestinal illness, using AC and ED data and AC+ED data combined, from two geographically separate health plans participating… read more… For each data stream— AC, ED, and AC+ED combined—repeat visits were omitted if they occurred within 6 weeks of a previous visit to the same setting for LGI. Generalized linear mixed … -
Telephone Triage Data for Detection of Influenza-like Illness
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National surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus variants and to monitor influenza-related morbidity and mortality. Nurse telephone triage (“call”) data may serve as a useful complement to… read more… on number of influenza isolates and percentage of total visits to sentinel providers for influenza-like illness were … [2] Henry JV, Magruder S, Snyder M. Comparison of office visit and nurse advice hotline data for syndromic … -
Nurse Call Data for Detection of Influenza-Like Illness
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Influenza affects millions of people and causes about 36,000 deaths in the United States each winter. Pandemics of influenza emerge at irregular intervals. National influenza surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus… read more… data on number of influenza isolates and percentage of visits for ILI from sentinel providers were com- pared to … ] Henry JV, Magruder S, Snyder M. Comparison of office visit d nurse advice hotline data for syndromic … -
Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP): Automated Detection and Reporting of Statutory Notifiable Diseases to Public Health Authorities
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Clinician initiated reporting of notifiable conditions is often delayed, incomplete, and lacking in detail. We report on the deployment of Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP), a system we have created to automatically screen… read more… and Prevention, 133 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 (e-mail: mklompas@partners.org) 1 Advances in Disease … initiative and is still largely done manually by mail, fax, or telephone. Some jurisdic- tions have … the denominator of their choice (e.g., total ambu- latory visits, total number of patients tested for the condition, … -
Klompas et al. Respond: Automated Public Health Reporting-- Possible with a Coalition of the Willing
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Professor Hripcsak rightly points out some of the challenges inherent in disseminating and sustaining robust information systems to automate the detection and reporting of notifiable diseases using data from electronic medical records (EMR). New… read more… and Prevention, 133 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215 (e-mail: mklompas@partners.org). 1 Advances in Disease … definitions. When a new code is detected, ESP sends an e-mail alert to ESP administrators, asking them to review and … -
Assessing the Impact of Syndromic Surveillance Systems on Routine Public Health Practice: Identifying and Evaluating Syndromic Signals
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We describe the development and implementation of a protocol for identifying syndromic signals and for assessing their value to public health departments for routine (non-bioterrorism) purposes. The specific objectives of the evaluation are to… read more… state’s web-based health alert network [5] or via e-mail from the surveillance system’s data center. Each … -
Automated surveillance and public health reporting for gestational diabetes incidence and care using electronic health record data
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Public health departments have a strong interest in monitoring the incidence, care, and complications of gestational diabetes, as it is associated with poor outcomes for infants and increased risk of diabetes type II for mothers.… read more… Department of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA E-mail: mklompas@partners.org Objective To develop an … -
Automated chronic disease surveillance and visualization using electronic health record data
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Chronic diseases are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity for Americans but public health surveillance for these conditions is limited. Health departments currently use telephone interviews, medical surveys, and death certificates to gather… read more… records; visuali- zation; diabetes *Michael Klompas E-mail: mklompas@partners.org (page number not for citation …