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An Emergency Department Based Syndromic Surveillance System for Meningitis and Encephalitis, Maricopa County, AZ 2004
Content Type: Abstract
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… November 30, 2004. Medical records were reviewed for 570 (70%) of these cases. Abstracted data included ED visit date … for each case definition. RESULTS A total of 243 (26%) reported M/E cases visited the 5 hospitals for which electronic data was …