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  • Can Telehealth Ontario Respiratory Call Volume be Used as a Proxy for Emergency Department Respiratory Visit Surveillance by Public Health?

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    The prompt detection of disease outbreaks is a major concern to public health as it has the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality (1). Real-time syndromic surveillance uses existing non-traditional data for timely analysis and feedback to… read more
    … relationship between Ontarioís emergency department (ED) visits and telephone health line (Telehealth Ontario) call … me_Be_Used_As_A_Proxy_For_Emergency_Department_Respiratory_Visit_Surveillance_By_Public_Health_.pdf Submitted by elamb … to ED discharge data. References (1) Wagner MM, Tsui F-C, Espino JU, Dato VM, Sittig DF, Caruana RA, McGinnis LF, …
  • Comparing Telehealth and NACRS Influenza Activity to Fluwatch Surveillance Using EARS-X

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    This paper will use CDCís EARS-X to examine Tele-healthís potential as an early warning system specifically for influenza-like illness compared to NACRS, as well as qualitatively comparing the resultant EARS flags to peaks in influenza activity… read more
    … collecting all ICD-10 physician coded ambulatory care visits in Ontario since 2000. For the purpose of this paper, only ED visit portion of the dataset was included in the analysis. … 6. Further Information: Elizabeth Rolland, erolland@gmail.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:189 … This paper …