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Time of Arrival Analysis in NC DETECT to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records
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TOA identifies clusters of patients arriving to a hospital ED within a short temporal interval. Past implementations have been restricted to records of patients with a specific type of complaint. The Florida Department of Health uses TOA at the… read more… if TOA could be used for identifying clusters of ED visits not filtered by any syndrome or sub-syndrome. In other words, can TOA detect a cluster of ED visits relating to a public health event, even if symptoms … The initial goal is to identify clusters of related ED visits whose keywords, signs and/or symptoms are NOT all … -
Using State and National Surveillance Systems during World Equestrian Games in NC
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North Carolina hosted the 2018 FEI WEG in Polk County at the Tryon Equestrian Center in September 2018. Polk County, located in the Mountain region of Western North Carolina, is home to 20,357 people, and the population is widely distributed. Event… read more… expected approximately 300,000 to 500,000 people to visit the area, with 800 horses from 71 countries taking … expected approximately 300,000 to 500,000 people to visit the area, with 800 horses from 71 countries taking … -
Using NC DETECT Summary Reports to Share Syndromic Information
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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) provides early event detection and public health situational awareness to hospital-based and public health users statewide. Authorized users are currently able… read more… Word functionality was added. In July 2008, an informal email-based survey was sent to all PHEs and the NC Division … noted Of the four users who responded to the informal email survey (36%), all found the report to be useful. … -
Improving syndromic surveillance for non-power users: NC DETECT dashboards
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NC DETECT provides near-real-time statewide surveillance capacity to local, regional and state level users across NC with twice daily data feeds from 117 (99%) emergency departments (EDs), hourly updates from the statewide poison center, and daily… read more… J. 2011;4:s111. doi: 10.3134/ehtj.10.111. *Amy Ising E-mail: ising@ad.unc.edu (page number not for citation …