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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… identify residents who died from suicide and visited an ED in the year before death. Objective: To … identify individuals who died from suicide and visited an ED before death in order to improve suicide … identify residents who died from suicide and visited an ED in the year before death. Objective: To … -
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… investigated via patient interview by phone and/or home visit. Results Ninety-seven events of interest (of 2365 … Systems, Inc., EpiCenter, v 2.10. http:// www.hmsinc.com/service/epicenter.html. 3. Centers for Disease Control … http://www.hmsinc.com/service/epicenter.html … -
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 … X100.41F, cough and/or sore throat, and total patient visits were summed from 12 sentinel sites, and used to … Systems, Inc, EpiCenter, v 2.6.3. http://www. hmsinc.com/service/epicenter.html. 4 Centers for Disease Control …