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Establishing a Syndromic Surveillance System Using Chief-Complaint Data at Emergency Department of One Regional Hospital in Taipei City to Detect Infectious Disease Outbreaks
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Facing public health threats of bioterrorism and emerging infectious diseases (EID), the traditional passive surveillance system is not efficient and outmoded. Evidences reveal that several newly developed syndromic surveillance… read more… and set up baseline clinical data and epidemic threshold. Due to English barriers and standardized language problem in … and set up baseline clinical data and epidemic threshold. Due to English barriers and standardized language problem in … stored in the data base. We categorized ED patients into dif- ferent syndromic groups using CoCo and ICD-9 as … -
Establishment of Public-access Syndromic Surveillance System in Taipei City, Taiwan
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Taiwan had established a nation-wide emergency department (ED)-based syndromic surveillance system since 2004, with a mean detection sensitivity of 0.67 in 2004-06 [1]. However, this system may not represent the true epidemic situation of infectious… read more… settings, sources of the infection and social network all together may still facilitate the transmissions. These … settings, sources of the infection and social network all together may still facilitate the transmissions. These … signal NNRS had detected. With CUSUM, case numbers did increase in week 34�35 and fell out thresholds in week …