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A pilot project to identify individuals who died from suicide and visited an ED before death
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In 2015, suicide was the 8th leading cause of death in Salt Lake County, Utah, and has recently been identified as a priority public health issue. For suicide, suicide ideation and suicide attempts surveillance, Salt Lake County Health Department… read more… whether we could retrospectively identify residents who died from suicide and visited an ED in the year before … data to retrospectively identify individuals who died from suicide and visited an ED before death in order to … whether we could retrospectively identify residents who died from suicide and visited an ED in the year before … -
Evaluating the use of syndromic surveillance for the detection of influenza-like illness in Salt Lake County, Utah
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Salt Lake Valley Health Department uses syndromic surveillance to monitor influenza-like illness (ILI) activity as part of a comprehensive influenza surveillance program that includes pathogen-specific surveillance, sentinel… read more… Methods Data were collected from 30 August 2009 to 26 December 2009. Weekly reported hospitalized H1N1 cases … ILI, and reported hospitalized H1N1 case counts for all ages and each ILI age group. Results Overall, weekly … -
Identification of a measles case using syndromic surveillance in Salt Lake County, Utah
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In March-April, 2011, Salt Lake Valley Health Department (SLVHD) investigated an outbreak of measles (N=9) resulting from a single imported case from Europe. Syndromic surveillance was used to identify measles-like illness (MLI) and enhance early… read more… Reporting System (EARS) (3). Events of interest included all ‘rash’ events that contributed to an alert or had a concerning chief complaint (e.g., eye pain), all ‘febrile rash’ events that had a concerning chief … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …