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Another Type of Cluster Monitoring: Detection of Groups of Anomalous Patient Residence Locations
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The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) uses the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics to detect disease outbreaks and other health-related events earlier than other forms of surveillance. Although… read more… in the world, the strongest predictor of which health care facility is accessed is geographic proximity to the … of patient residential ZIP codes outside a health care facility catchment area. Document … out-of-town) sought healthcare at the VA Maryland Health Care System*Baltimore Medical Center. Using ESSENCE, daily … -
Hierarchical Filtering of ESSENCE for Routine, Distributed Disease Monitoring by the Veterans Health Administration
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The VA has employed ESSENCE for health monitoring since 2006 [1]. Epidemiologists at the Office of Public Health (OPH) monitor the VA population at the national level. The system is also intended for facility-level monitoring to cover 152 medical… read more… Laurel, MD, USA; 2Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA; 3University of Oklahoma …