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  • Emergency Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) for Public Health in Canada

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    In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more
    … with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care – Public Health Branch, Queen’s University, Public … with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC) – Public Health Branch, Queen’s University, … using a token-based authentica- tion system (Crypto-card). Many modifications have been made to the open source …
  • Acute Care Alerting and Integrated Public Health Investigation and Response to Syndromic Surveillance Alerts: Example of a Local Food Borne Outbreak

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    To highlight the key role of Emergency Department syn-dromic surveillance in linking acute care and public health, thus enabling collaborative detection, monitoring and management of a local food borne outbreak.
    … Department syn-dromic surveillance in linking acute care and public health, thus enabling collaborative … Acute Care Alerting and Integrated Public Health Investigation and … Surveillance (RODS)-based system captures real-time ED visits from 7 area hospitals and real-time admissions from 3 …
  • Absenteeism Among Employees in a Southeastern Ontario Hospital: A Novel Application of Syndromic Surveillance

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    Sickness absence is particularly pronounced within health care organizations where job demands and work environment expose workers to an increased risk of illness and injury, potentially leading to an inability to attend work.… read more
    … Sickness absence is particularly pronounced within health care organizations where job demands and work environment … Objective 1) To identify and describe Occupational Health visits (overall and specific conditions) among full-time … consider the associa- tion between absenteeism and Health Care Worker (HCW) exposure risk to infectious diseases based …
  • Early Detection and Integrated Response to Seasonal Influenza

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    A syndromic surveillance system has been implemented at Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health in Kingston Ontario as part of a pilot project funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care – Public Health Division… read more
    … funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care – Public Health Division. The information captured by … (implemented since SARS) for Emergency Department (ED) visits and information detailing hospital admissions.   … (ED) monitoring tool to involve public health, acute care and laboratory stakeholders in an integrated alerting …
  • Emergency Department Surveillance of Alcohol-Related Violence and Injuries to Enable Event Monitoring and Management

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    Syndromic surveillance has been used been used as method of surveillance for various events in recent years. For example, post September 11th, 2001 anthrax attacks in New York City, World Youth Day in Toronto 2002, Salt Lake City 2002 Olympics,… read more
    … 2005.   Objective Historical Emergency Department (ED) visits were examined to characterize ED utilization for the … ON Canada OBJECTIVE Historical Emergency Department (ED) visits were exam- ined to characterize ED utilization for … events can assist in characterizing the usage of acute care institutions, the ability to predict usage for planned …
  • Integration of Hospital Admissions, Febrile Respiratory Illness Screening and Triage Acuity Score into an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System

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    This paper outlines the integration of hospital admission, Febrile Respiratory Illness (FRI) screening and Canadian Triage and Acuity Score (CTAS) data streams within an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance system. These data elements allow… read more
    … enable more effective resource allocation within acute care settings. Document … enable more effective resource alloca- tion within acute care settings. BACKGROUND In September 2004, Kingston, … postal code of resi- dence, hospital and date and time of visit. DATA ELEMENTS Admission data – The physician’s …
  • Multi-Sectored Approach to Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System

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    In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more
    … with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care – Public Health Branch, Queen’s University, Public … with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC) – Public Health Branch, Queen’s University, … with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care – Public Health Branch, Queen’s University, Public …
  • Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification

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    This paper describes a novel approach to the statistical classification of free-text chief complaints for the purpose of syndromic surveillance.
    … geographic and temporal features of the patient and/or visit could also potentially augment the model. Other …