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  • Canadian and United States Cross-Border Collaboration for Syndromic Surveillance: Overview and Recommendations from an International Society for Disease Surveillance

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    The objectives of this consultation, supported by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS), were to develop expert, consensus-based recommendations to promote Canadian and U.S. collaboration in using syndromic surveillance (SS) to… read more
    … in 4 scenarios: an outbreak of gastrointestinal ill- ness due to E. coli originating in Buffalo, New York; an outbreak … ISDS Wiki is publicly accessible. In addition, ISDS is de- veloping a registry of SS systems, with a goal of …
  • 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
    … Agency of Canada, Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital. At this time, the University of Pittsburgh’s … Canada (PHAC), Kingston General Hospital (KGH) and Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH). At this time, the University of … Detection Methods with Simulated Data. Emerg Inf Dis. Vol. 11, No. 2, February 2005. [3] Wong, WK et al. …
  • 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
    … Agency of Canada, Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital. At this time, the University of Pittsburgh’s … Canada (PHAC), Kingston General Hospital (KGH) and Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH). At this time, the University of … Agency of Canada, Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital. At this time, the University of Pittsburgh’s …
  • Chart Review of Laboratory-Confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis Cases in a Local Food Borne Outbreak Linked to Mung Bean Sprouts

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    A retrospective chart review was performed to examine chief complaint, syndrome classification and discharge diagnoses of laboratory confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis phage type (PT) 13 cases who visited the Emergency Departments (ED) of two local… read more
    … cause of the provincial outbreak. METHODS Chart Review: All hospital charts were reviewed for laboratory confirmed … modified gastroenteritis or GI syndrome. RESULTS Of the 26 cases reported to public health in KFL&A, 10 patients … the ED for medical assessment and two were hospitalized due to severity of illness. Nine out of ten cases (90%) were …
  • 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
    … of age. Analysis was performed using the Centers for Dis- ease Control and Prevention’s Early Aberration … trauma (3). The overall ED volumes and triage acuity for all patients presenting to the ED as well as for those … into violence. The Kingston Whig-Standard. 2005 Sep 26; pg.1 front. [2] Elliot I. Police, Queen’s beef up …
  • 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
    … Canada (PHAC), Kingston General Hospital (KGH) and Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH). At this time, the University of … Implementation guidelines for the Canadian emergency de- partment triage and acuity scale (CTAS). Version 16: …
  • 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.
    … 2004. The system collects real time data from seven ED’s all of which capture a free-text chief complaint. As these … it analyzes only at the word level, and it treats all words/word pairs as statistically independent entities. … syndromes re- mains relatively low and highly variable due to the low availability of training data. …
  • 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
    … absence not reported to OH (44%). Patient contact did not remain statistically significant after adjusting for …