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Incorporating Wildlife Data into Syndromic Surveillance
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The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) serves public health users across North Carolina at the local, regional and state levels, providing syndromic surveillance capabilities. At the state level,… read more… generated, providing a line listing of all the syndrome visits that contributed to the flag on that particular date. … The PWC defines 8 syndromes and assigns each patient visit to none, one or as many syndromes as are appropriate … The PWC is currently assigning syndromes to each visit where appropriate but are not yet providing that … -
Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor for Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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The goal of this project is to compare automated syn-dromic surveillance queries using raw chief complaints to those pre-processed with the Emergency Medical Text Processor (EMT-P) system.… data warehouse included 813,536 emergency department (ED) visits. The ED records are queried daily with 6 syndrome … METHODS This study analyzed a subset of the 1,000 ED visits which were previously sampled from the 2004 NC BEIPS … by two clinical experts who determined whether the visit met the ILI clinical case definition. Any … -
Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza
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We report here on the use of the North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition of influenza for the purpose of influenza surveillance.… with a goal of increasing sensitivity. METHODS Patient visits from the 2003-2004 influenza season (9/28/03-3/27/04) … Ghneim, G., Sickbert-Bennett, E., Waller, A., Ising, A. & Mail- lard, J. North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging … -
Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance
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The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) receives daily emergency department (ED) data from 33 (29%) of the 114 EDs in North Carolina. These data are available via a Web-based portal and the Early… read more… syndrome queries. METHODS We selected a sample of 500 ED visits from the 2004 NC BEIPS data warehouse. Two hundred … categories based on clinical case definition. All visits were electronically processed for SS twice, once … syndrome designations generated false positives for some visits that did not meet the syndrome definitions according … -
North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System
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NC BEIPS is a system designed and developed by the NC Division of Public Health (DPH) for early detection of disease and bioterrorism outbreaks or events. It analyzes emergency department (ED) data on a daily basis from 33 (29%) EDs in North… read more… generated, providing a line listing of all the syndrome visits that contributed to the flag on that particular date. …