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Comparing the Utility of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Room Data for Disease Outbreak Detection
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To compare the ability to detect disease outbreaks of separate and combined data streams from ambulatory care and emergency department from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.… made among them. Alternatively, these data sources can be com- bined in order to generate a common sequence of … -
Evaluating Syndromic Signals from Ambulatory Care Data in Four States
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The utility of syndromic surveillance systems to augment health departments’ traditional surveillance for naturally occurring disease has not been prospectively evaluated. Objective In this interim… read more… Clinic and Austin Diagnostic Clinic, Austin/Travis Co. and Williamson Co. health departments); and San Mateo County, California … 10 sig- nals. None of the 10 corresponded to clusters of con- cern to the respective health department. The statisti- … -
A Comparison of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Department Encounters as Data Sources for Detection of Clusters of Lower Gastrointestinal Illness
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We sought to compare ambulatory care (AC) and emergency department (ED) data for the detection of clusters of lower gastrointestinal illness, using AC and ED data and AC+ED data combined, from two geographically separate health plans participating… read more… useful information for syndromic surveillance. Cor- relation with confirmed outbreaks will be necessary to …