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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… with seasonal respiratory illness outbreaks. The top plot shows all the data, regardless of severity linkage score. The … ratio [1] for this event increased by about 26% as the severity linkage score filtering increased from … -
An Exploration of New Uses of Traditional Data within an Ecological Study: Air Quality Effects on Pediatric Asthma Exacerbation Analysis
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Under a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the DC DOH established the Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (EPHTP) to monitor specific environmental and public health indicators and to investigate any… read more… 2 views Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … were seen mostly in the 5-12 age group. However, PM2.5 did not appear to be a risk factor, perhaps because …