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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… RESULTS While the results varied each year, ILI visits to com- munity-based care settings and ILI visits by children … and deaths due to pneumonia and influenza, British Co- lumbia, Canada, 1998-2004. Vaccine 2008;26:1397-403. 4. … -
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.… the list of sampled physicians and claims to the Quebec Col- lege of Physicians who, acting as a trusted third … DoD-GEIS. 2003. ICD-9 code set used in ESSENCE. http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENC … with critical bioterrorism-associated agents. http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/syndromedef/ Advances in Disease …