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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… resulted in laboratory test requests and prescriptions may improve sensitivity and specificity of detection … of linked lab requests and prescriptions filled for each visit. This tally ranged from zero to greater than 9 and was … ratio [1] for this event increased by about 26% as the severity linkage score filtering increased from … -
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… anomalous health event that presents as only a few cases may remain undetected because the chief complaint data does … Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … Linking Public Health and Healthcare Data … in the patient encounter dataset, same day office visits corresponded well with the flu epidemic curve. … -
Synthesizing the American Health Information Community’s Minimum Data Set
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One of the challenges facing developers and users of automated disease surveillance systems is being able to accurately evaluate the performance of their systems for the wide variety of public health threats that are possible. A… read more… outbreaks are typically not public health emergencies and may not represent signals of interest. Another approach is … breaks are typically not public health emergencies and may not represent signals of interest. Another approach is … identifying features. Additional synthetic outbreak cases may be inserted into the real but modified background AHIC …