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The Value of Patient Reports in Syndrome Assignment
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Of critical importance to the success of syndromic surveillance systems is the ability to collect data in a timely manner and thus ensure rapid detection of disease outbreaks. Most emergency department-based syndromic surveillance systems use… read more… pertaining to the child’s current illness. After the visit, the sub- ject’s medical record was abstracted and … -
Seasonal Patterns of Gastrointestinal Illness
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Objective: To investigate seasonal patterns of gastrointestinal (GI) illness among children and adults.… 2001 to Oct 2005. Data were diagnoses for all hospital visits (ED, inpatient, observation). GI visits (N= 1,167,711) were selected by ICD-9 codes using … was significant. RESULTS In Figure 1, numbers of visits with a GI Dx are displayed as overlapping one-year … -
Effect of expanded recommendations for pediatric seasonal influenza vaccination: an international comparison
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Seasonal influenza epidemics are responsible for over 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States per year, and 39,000 of them are in children. In the United States, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guides… read more… to make an international comparison of rates of ED visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) following the United … the post-policy change response of ILI-related ED visits to Children’s Hospital Boston, using Montreal … We observed a 34% decline in the rate of ILI-related ED visits among two- to four-year-olds for Children’s Hospital … -
Improving Detection Timeliness by Modeling and Correcting for Data Availability Delays
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The performance of even the most advanced syndromic surveillance systems can be undermined if the monitored data is delayed before it arrives into the system. In such cases, an outbreak may be detected only after it is too late for appropriate… read more… 2005. These models predict the percentage of total visits from a given date that will be available to the …