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Comparing the Utility of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Room Data for Disease Outbreak Detection
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To compare the ability to detect disease outbreaks of separate and combined data streams from ambulatory care and emergency department from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.… made among them. Alternatively, these data sources can be com- bined in order to generate a common sequence of … -
Nurse Call Data for Detection of Influenza-Like Illness
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Influenza affects millions of people and causes about 36,000 deaths in the United States each winter. Pandemics of influenza emerge at irregular intervals. National influenza surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus… read more… percentage of visits for ILI from sentinel providers were com- pared to rolling, seven-day totals of calls for ILI and … -
Evaluating Syndromic Signals from Ambulatory Care Data in Four States
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The utility of syndromic surveillance systems to augment health departments’ traditional surveillance for naturally occurring disease has not been prospectively evaluated. Objective In this interim… read more… Clinic and Austin Diagnostic Clinic, Austin/Travis Co. and Williamson Co. health departments); and San Mateo County, California … 10 sig- nals. None of the 10 corresponded to clusters of con- cern to the respective health department. The statisti- … -
Telephone Triage Data for Detection of Influenza-like Illness
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National surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus variants and to monitor influenza-related morbidity and mortality. Nurse telephone triage (“call”) data may serve as a useful complement to… read more… CA 3,136,617 0.80 0.85 0.89 WI 825,255 0.67 0.81 0.87 CO 558,705 0.82 0.96 0.86 TX 2,529,566 0.83 0.97 0.85 IL …