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An Emergency Department Based Syndromic Surveillance System for Meningitis and Encephalitis, Maricopa County, AZ 2004
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We developed, implemented and evaluated Meningitis and Encephalitis (M/E) syndrome case definitions based on electronic Emergency Department (ED) chief complaint data; and assessed their ability to detect aberrations that correspond with M/E… read more… for 570 (70%) of these cases. Abstracted data included ED visit date and time, age, gender, chief complaint and … -
BioSense Real-Time Data Initiative: Improving Emergency Preparedness- Monitoring Injury Sub-Syndromes
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Analysis of the BioSense data facilitates the identification, tracking, and management of emergent and routine health events, including potential bioterrorism events, injury related incidents and rapidly spreading naturally occurring events (1).… read more… ings, sprains & strains). RESULTS A total of 8,342,336 visits were recorded in the ED Chief Complaint category into … system from January 2, 2006 to July 18, 2007. Of all visits; the greatest proportion binned to the Respiratory … the most frequent were injury NOS (6.7% of total visits), open wounds (3.4%), falls (3.1%), and MVC (2.2%). …