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The Impact of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees from Louisiana and Mississippi on Georgia Emergency Departments: Syndromic Surveillane and Disasters
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall just east of New Orleans, LA at 6:10AM CST and again at the LA/MS border at 10:00AM CST as a Category 3 hurricane, causing mass destruction along their coastlines. The devastation in LA and MS… read more… RESULTS There was a 7-fold increase in the rate of ED visits by LA and MS residents from the pre- to the post- … correlations were noted between the number of ED visits by individual zip codes and their racial, poverty, or … 0.2059 Mental Health 1 0.6 1 0.7 0.9508 Nausea/Vomit 4 2.6 5 3.5 0.6374 Other 86 55.1 82 57.3 0.9508 Advances in … -
A Comparison between Syndromic Surveillance 911/EMS and Emergency Department Data
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To examine data from 911/Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and determine whether these data provide a useful addition to syndromic surveillance (SS) when used with emergency department (ED) chief complaint (CC) data.… and analyze data from 911/EMS calls and CCs from ED visits. We focused on the “neurologic syndrome” because this … were designed and applied to the patient CC for ED visits occurring from July 1 through December 31, 2005. Data … period, 16,685 911/EMS calls or transports and 23,515 ED visits total were registered. Seventy-two zip codes were … -
Event Detection in a Vulnerable Population
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The City of Atlanta, volunteer organizations, and the faith community operate several homeless shelters throughout the city. Services available at these shelters vary, ranging from day services, such as meals, mail collection,… read more… generated for the bloody respira- tory syndrome for ED visits on Sunday, March 11 Further inspection of these alerts revealed 8 ED visits for this syndrome statewide. Six of these were from … code (Figures 1 and 2). This was the highest number of ED visits for bloody respiratory illnesses recorded at a single …