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Detection of a Vaccine-preventable Reportable Disease: Comparison of Physician Reporting vs. an Electronic Syndromic Surveillance System
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Communicable diseases are underreported by physicians, especially diseases without laboratory tests. The goals of our study were to determine reporting levels for clinical chickenpox, describe clinical data elements common to chickenpox, and assess… read more -
A proposed SyS Case Definition for Opioid Overdose Related ED visits- an evaluation in three regions
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Opioid ODs have been rising globally and nationally. The death rate from ODs in the United States has increased 137% since 2000, including a 200% increase of OD deaths involving opioids1. The pilot project, a collaboration across 3 states, allowed… read more -
Denver County Clostridium difficile Trends and Associated Risk Factors 2011-2013
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Clostridium difficile (CD), a gram-negative, anaerobic, sporeforming bacterium causes symptoms ranging from mild to severe diarrhea and may result in death. Approximately 75% of CDI cases have symptom onset outside of health care settings.… read more -
Automated Immunization Surveillance: Using Business Intelligence to Improve Up-to-Date Rates
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IIS have effectively increased vaccination rates through targeted engagement and outreach, often with clinicians and patients. Little has been published around IIS use for generating meaningful population health measures. To leverage IIS data for… read more -
Stakeholder Perspectives of Biosurveillance: a Qualitative Analysis
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For more than a decade, biosurveillance systems (and more recently BioSense) have been employed in the United States. Efforts to drastically expand these surveillance capacities have been a national priority given concerns … read more -
Evaluation of Case Detection of Marijuana-Related Emergency Department Visits
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NSSP, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surveillance system, allows timely detection of emergency department (ED) trends by matching chief complaint (CC) text or diagnosis (DX) codes to established syndrome criteria [1, 2]. No CDC… read more -
Visualizing the Local Experience: HIV Data to Care Tool
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Recently signed in Denver, the Paris Declaration demonstrates a collective resolution to end AIDS by continually monitoring these goals. However siloed data and in/out migration results in poor capacity to track population level care indicators for… read more -
Using Emergency Department Data for Detection of a Synthetic Marijuana Outbreak
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Timely access to Emergency Department (ED) Chief Complaint (CC) data, before the definitive diagnosis is established, allows for early outbreak detection and prompt response by public health officials.BioSense 2.0 is a cloud-based application that… read more