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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… Public Health, located in Kingston, Ontario has been con- ducting Emergency Department (ED) Syndromic Surveil- … in November 2005. A comparison was made between the chief com- plaint, syndrome classification and discharge … using a free-text medical diagnosis classifier. The chief com- plaints and discharge diagnoses were as follows (Figure … -
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.… It was not known whether the characteristics of chief com- plaints would allow for accurate classification using … data. Epidemiological and clinical assessment from the com- parison of the two servers indicated that the Maximum … Further Information: Kevin O’Connor, koconnor@cissec.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;2:23 … -
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… in Community Settings. March 2004. Available at: http://www.health.gov.on.ca/english/providers/pro- … gram/infectious/syndromes/standards/guide_fri_comm_031104 .pdf [2] Canadian Association of Emergency … (CTAS). Version 16: 11/30/1998. Available at: http://www.caep.ca/002.policies/ 002-docs/ctased16.pdf Further … -
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… Branch. March 2004 Version 1.0. Available at: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/csc- … (No. RR-5): [inclusive page numbers] Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ PDF/rr/rr5305.pdf Advances in Disease … -
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.… health, laboratories and acute care institutions and col- laborative investigation. Retrospective investigation … -
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… EDs during Homecoming weekend, which has become a greater con- cern in recent years. This information may be used to …