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  • Using Age & Syndrome to Characterize Epidemic Winter-Seasonal Acute Gastroenteritis

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    We describe age- and syndrome-specific emergency department (ED) visit patterns for diarrhea and vomiting associated with periods of confirmed epidemic rotavirus and presumed epidemic norovirus in New York City (NYC).
    … age- and syndrome-specific emergency department (ED) visit patterns for diarrhea and vomiting associated with … age- and syndrome-specific emergency department (ED) visit patterns for diarrhea and vomiting associated with … confirmed RV activity and to characterize associated ED visits in NYC. METHODS To estimate incident winter-season …
  • The spatial-temporal pattern of excess influenza visits at the (sub-)urban scale

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    Quantifying the spatial-temporal diffusion of diseases such as seasonal influenza is difficult at the urban scale for a variety of reasons including the low specificity of the extant data, the heterogenous nature of healthcare seeking… read more
    … Document The_Spatial_Temporal_Pattern_Of_Excess_Influenza_Visits_At_The_Suburban_Scale.pdf 3 views Submitted by … ABSTRACT The spatial-temporal pattern of excess influenza visits at the (sub-)urban scale KJ Konty, and DR Olson New … The spatial-temporal pattern of excess influenza visits at the (sub-)urban scale …
  • Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot

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    The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more
    … USA; and 7McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada E-mail: drolson@gmail.com Objective To describe the initial phase of the … Selected Distribute health department sites were sent an email inviting them to participate in the pilot. Sites were …
  • Age Specific Correlations between Influenza Laboratory Data and Influenza-like Syndrome Definitions in Boston and New York City

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    To compare age-group-specific correlation of influenza-like syndrome (ILS) emergency department (ED) visits with influenza laboratory data in Boston and NYC using locally defined ILS definitions.
    … influenza-like syndrome (ILS) emergency department (ED) visits with influenza laboratory data in Boston and NYC … influenza-like syndrome (ILS) emergency department (ED) visits with influenza laboratory data in Boston and NYC … laboratories. Weekly proportions of broad and narrow ED visits from Oct 2, 2005 – May 17, 2008 were calculated for …
  • Surveillance triggers for community-based mitigation of pandemic influenza

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    Four waves of pandemic influenza from 1918-1920 in New York City caused ~40,000 deaths, primarily of young-adults and children. The explosiveness of the autumn 1918 wave has led many to believe that in the event of a similar… read more
    … and current estimates of influenza-attributable excess ED visits and deaths in NYC6. From these estimates, we … and extrapolated data, identify the weeks when excess ED visits clearly exceed Serfling model-based thresholds. We … and a conservative assumption of a ~5:1 excess ED visit to death ratio, we estimate that community-wide …
  • Estimating Hospital Admissions for Influenza Using Emergency Department (ED) Syndromic Surveillance Data, New York City

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    An important goal of influenza surveillance is to provide public health decisionmakers with timely estimates of the severity of community-wide influenza. One potential indicator is the number of influenza hospitalizations. In New… read more
    … data are received daily for approximately 90% of NYC ED visits, and include patient’s age, gender and chief complaint. ED ILI visits were defined as any visit whose chief complaint indicated fever-flu or …
  • Review of the ISDS Distributed Surveillance Taskforce for Real-time Influenza Burden Tracking & Evaluation (DiSTRIBuTE) Project 2007/08 Influenza Season Proof-of-concept Phase

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    This paper describes the initiation, development and proof-of-concept phase of the ISDS DiSTRIBuTE influenza morbidity surveillance project [1].
    … depict respiratory, fever and influenza-like syndrome ED visits by jurisdiction as percent of total. 1/ 21 /2 00 6 2/ … Surface plots depict relative increase in ED syndrome visits as observed / baseline by jurisdiction and age. … The participants reported aggregate daily counts of ED visits by age group (<2, 2-4, 5-17, 18-44, 45-64 and 65+ …
  • A Comparison of Locally Developed Influenza-like Syndrome Definitions Using Electronic Emergency Department Data in Boston and New York City

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    To compare locally-developed influenza-like syndrome definitions (derived from emergency department (ED) chief complaints) when applied to data from two ISDS DiSTRIBuTE Project participants: Boston and New York City (NYC) [1].
    … daily from 10 of 10 EDs in the city of Boston (avg daily visits ~ 1300). The NYCDOHMH collects data daily from 50 of 61 (82%) EDs in NYC representing 94% of all ED visits (avg daily visits ~ 10,000). Each department uses both a broad (more …