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  • Monitoring Spatial Patterns of Adverse Drug Events and Morbidity in New York City Using Syndromic Data Streams

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    Drug-related deaths have increased over the past decade throughout the United States. In New York City (NYC), every year there are approximately 900 psychoactive drug-related fatalities with the majority involving opioids.… read more
    … 911 calls coded into 52 broad call- types. ED data come from 50 of 62 NYC hospitals covering >90% of total ED … Am J Drug Alc Abuse. 2008;34(4):499-509. [6] Martin M, Hecker J, Clark R, Frye J, Jehle D, et al. China White …
  • Using a Syndromic Approach to Monitor Alcohol-Related Visits of College-Aged Emergency Department Patients

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    According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) surveillance of drug-related ED visits, underage (B21 years) alcohol-alone visit rates have been increasing since 2004 to 2009 (1… read more
    … in New York City. NYC Vital Signs 2010, 9(5): 1�4. http://www.nyc.gov/html/ doh/downloads/pdf/survey/survey- … PLoS Currents: Influenza 2011 Aug 2;3:RRN1251. http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21894257 *Alejandro Cajigal … 2011, 4: 11190 - DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v4i0.11190 http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/survey/survey- …
  • The spatial-temporal pattern of excess influenza visits at the (sub-)urban scale

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    Quantifying the spatial-temporal diffusion of diseases such as seasonal influenza is difficult at the urban scale for a variety of reasons including the low specificity of the extant data, the heterogenous nature of healthcare seeking… read more
    … and DR Olson.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 3333 regularities of the patterns across … Health Threats Journal KJ Konty and DR Olson. 2011, 4:s35 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 3434 …
  • Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing of school closure in response to pandemic influenza?

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    School closure has long been proposed as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in reducing the transmission of pandemic influenza. Children are thought to have high transmission potential because of their low immunity to circulating… read more
    … Egger et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 26 and threshold levels in absenteeism … Health Threats Journal JR Egger et al. 2011, 4:s78 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 27 …
  • Cluster Detection Incorporating Lagged Test Data

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    Using New York Cityís dead bird surveillance for West Nile Virus (WNV), this paper presents two explorations of the spatial cluster detection problem in which lagged test results are available for a random subset of observations. First, we… read more
  • Adding GIS and Earth Observations to Syndromic Surveillance

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    This paper describes an integrated modeling, sensing, and information system for forecasting atmospheric dust episodes and monitoring PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations that aggravate respiratory diseases in the American southwest.
    … atmospheric dust episodes and monitoring PM2.5 and PM10 con- centrations that aggravate respiratory diseases in the … professionals to provide a broader geographical con- text for medical data (e.g. chief complaints, diagno- … public health decision support. In: IGARSS, 2006, Denver, CO, July 30-Aug.2. [2] Morain, S. and W. Sprigg. 2005. …
  • Visualization of Syndromic Surveillance Using GIS

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    Syndromic Surveillance has been in use in New York City since 2001, with 2.5 million visits reported from 39 participating emergency departments, covering an estimated 75% of annual visits. As syndromic surveillance becomes increasingly spatial and… read more
    … that they are for reference but are often not implicitly cor- rect when shown in a map product. REFERENCES [1] …
  • Identifying and Modeling Spatial Patterns of Heat-Related Illness in New York City

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    This paper describes the spatial pattern of New York City (NYC) heat-related emergency medical services (EMS) ambulance dispatches and emergency department visits (ED) and explores how this information can be used in planning for and response to… read more
    … medical 911 calls coded into 52 broad call-types. ED data come from 48 of 62 NYC hospitals covering 90% of total ED …