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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 each case definition. RESULTS A total of 243 (26%) reported M/E cases visited the 5 hospitals for which … from 18% to 71%. Specificity was high (98% to 99%) for all case definitions except for the least restrictive case …