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Timeliness of Ambulatory Data for Age-Specific ILI Surveillance
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While there has been some work to evaluate different data sources for syndromic surveillance of influenza, no one has yet assessed the utility of simultaneously restricting data to specific visit settings and patient age-groups using… read more… utility of simultaneously restricting data to specific visit settings and patient age-groups using data drawn from … the timeliness of data from community-based primary care. Objective Using physician billing data from a single … source population, we aimed to compare age-group and visit setting specific patterns in the timing of patients … -
Assessing and Optimizing the Accuracy of Physician Billing Claims for Use in Automated Syndromic Surveillance
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To assess the accuracy of community-based physician claims for identifying 5 syndromes: fever, gastrointestinal, neurological, rash, and respiratory.… listed has yet to be assessed in community- based primary care, where a majority of patients with these syndromes … status (+/-), syn- drome type, syndrome ICD-9 code, and visit month (to avoid seasonal bias). The RAMQ then sent the … patient complaints, symptoms, and signs for each sampled visit. The sensitivity, specific- ity, and positive …