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Effective Use of Laboratory Data for Monitoring Population Health
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Effective public health response to emerging infectious diseases, natural disasters, and bioterrorism requires access to real-time, accurate information on disease patterns and healthcare utilization. The ESSENCE surveillance… read more… consolidated. Test results could not be monitored due to lack of stan- dardized reporting, so only test orders were … disease syn- dromes based on ICD-9 diagnostic codes. We com- pared laboratory test orders to outpatient visits by … Practice patterns and laboratory test/outpatient visit associations vary by region, so monitoring may be most … -
Combining Laboratory Test Orders and Outpatient Visits to Monitor Respiratory Illness
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To evaluate whether joint monitoring of laboratory test orders and outpatient visits improves the sensitivity and timeliness of alerting during seasonal increases in respiratory illness.… counts of outpatient visits and laboratory test orders. Com- bined surveillance was performed by averaging the p- … increases were detected in both laboratory and outpatient visit data, but the timeliness of the alerts varied. …