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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 … 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.… increases were detected in both laboratory and outpatient visit data, but the timeliness of the alerts varied. … alerted. Laboratory data alerted before outpatient visit data for 12 of 20 data streams, and on the same day … 0.79). The combined data alerted before the outpa- tient visit data for 13 of 20 data streams, with the median date …