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Tracking emergency department (ED) patients with gastrointestinal symptoms during a Norovirus epidemic in Miami-Dade
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From January to March 2010, thirteen outbreaks of Norovirus infection were reported to the Epidemiology, Disease Control and Immunization Service (EDC-IS), up from four outbreaks in the entire 2008 and same number during 2009. … read more… ec-09 1-Jan-10 1-F eb-10 1-M ar-10 1-A pr-10 Date P at ie nt s in O ut br ea ks 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 … 3 consecutive days of red flags were posted among the all-age group. The next leg up in the uptrend of the count … than an actual increase in incidence. Rotavirus infection did not appear to make a contribution to the increase in the … -
Innovative Uses for ESSENCE to Improve Standard Communicable Disease Reporting Practices in Miami-Dade County
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To illustrate how ESSENCE can been utilized to collaborate with healthcare practitioners in order to improve communicable disease reporting… surveillance and reporting. Despite notification to all providers and hospitals that varicella (chicken pox) … that healthcare practitioners report appropriately. Due to the fact that only a small percentage of chicken pox … -
Using ESSENCE to Track a Gastrointestinal Outbreak in a Homeless Shelter in Miami-Dade County, 2008
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Although Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) provides tools to detect a significant alert regarding an unusual public health event, combining that information with … read more… discovered that on June 16, the residents that became ill did not eat food from the cafeteria but rather from food … period of time, interviews could not be conducted with all of the ill persons. CONCLUSIONS This study verified that … demonstrates how important it is to carefully monitor all clusters and not only those automatically created by the … -
Substance Abuse Among Youth in Miami-Dade County, 2005-2007
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The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 9th to 12th graders in Miami-Dade County public schools found that 69.7% of students tried alcohol, 28.3% tried marijuana, and 6.3% tried cocaine in their lifetime. Results also showed that… read more… 2006, there were 2,323 overdose related calls to 911 for all ages; 1,480 (63.7%) of these calls involved teens aged … for females, 59% of suicide-related 911 calls were due to a drug overdose while 33% were for males. AHCA There … between 2005 and 2007 demonstrated the following: 90% of all arrests were among males, Blacks had an arrest rate …