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Simulation of Correlated Outbreak Signals for Early Aberration Reporting
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The Early Aberration Reporting System was developed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help assist local and state health officials to focus limited resources on appropriate activities of public health… read more… temporal data sources, such as emergency department visits, drug store sales, and ambulatory clinic visits. Based on this premise, we provided correlated data … Background And Injected Signals 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 1/ 1/ 19 99 2/ 1/ 19 99 3/ 1/ 19 99 4/ 1/ 19 99 … -
Analysis of Syndrome Definitions for Gastrointestinal Illness with ICD9 Codes for Gastroenteritis during the 2006-07 Norovirus Season in Boston
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We report on a retrospective analysis of gastrointestinal syndrome definitions based on chief complaints and ICD9 diagnosis for gastroenteritis during the 2006-07 season of increased norovirus activity.… departments (EDs) in the city of Boston. For each patient-visit, data collected includes date of visit, chief complaint, gender, zipcode of residence, age, … are analyzed for statistical aberrations in the number of visits using the Early Aberration Reporting System (EARSv3). … -
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… 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 …