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A Simple Method of Using Linked Health Data in Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes a simple technique for utilizing linked health information in syndromic surveillance. Using knowledge of which patient encounters resulted in laboratory test requests and prescriptions may improve sensitivity and specificity of… read more… streams (emergency department chief complaints, clinic visit International Classification of Disease Ninth Revi- … who were assigned certain ICD9 codes during an office visit also received specific laboratory requests and … of linked lab requests and prescriptions filled for each visit. This tally ranged from zero to greater than 9 and was … -
Linking Public Health and Healthcare Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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A number of syndromic surveillance systems include tools that quickly identify potentially large disease outbreak events. However, the high falsepositive rate continues to be a problem in all of these systems. Our earlier work… read more… in the patient encounter dataset, same day office visits corresponded well with the flu epidemic curve. …