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Evaluating the Relationship between Heat-Related ED Visits and Weather Variables
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The ability to estimate and characterize the burden of disease on a population is important for all public health events, including extreme heat events. Preparing for such events is critical to minimize the associated morbidity and mortality [1, 2… read more… hospital discharge or death records, monitoring of ED visits is the timeliest and an inexpensive method for … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
Monitoring Hospital Emergency Department Visits for Chief Complaints of Insect Bites after a Major Flood
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On August 20th and 21st, 2007, Ohio sustained heavy rains which resulted in severe flooding over a nine-county area in the north-central part of the state. Increased hospital emergency department (ED) visits were expected for gastrointestinal… read more… the state. Increased hospital emergency department (ED) visits were expected for gastrointestinal illnesses, but … - 08:40 … Monitoring Hospital Emergency Department Visits for Chief Complaints of Insect Bites after a Major … -
Detecting Outbreaks and Other Clusters in Reportable Disease Data
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Outbreaks of infectious diseases are identified in a variety of ways by clinicians and public health practitioners but not usually by analytic methods typically employed in syndromic surveillance. Systematic spatial-temporal analysis of statewide… read more… Systematic spatial-temporal analysis of statewide data may enable earlier detection of outbreaks and identification … Systematic spatial-temporal analysis of statewide data may enable earlier detection of outbreaks and identification … identified outbreaks. Ongoing, prospective analysis may be useful for detecting unidentified outbreaks and … -
Tracking Drug Overdose Trends in Ohio using ED Chief Complaints
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The State of Ohio, as well as the country, has experienced an increasing incidence of drug ODs over the last three decades [3]. Of the increased number of unintended drug OD deaths in 2008, 9 out of 10 were caused by medications or illicit drugs [1… read more… distribution, demographics, and volume of drug ODs may aid public health efforts to decrease the number of … distribution, demographics, and volume of drug ODs may aid public health efforts to decrease the number of … -
Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance through Cross-border Data Sharing
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In the fall of 2006, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) proactively began general discussions regarding surveillance issues of mutual interest. Both states, having operational… read more… gender, patient home zip code, admitted date and time, visit number, and free- text chief complaint. Approximately … of this project provides a template for data sharing that may be helpful to other states. Finally, while this project … -
Using Syndromic Surveillance Data to Identify Emerging Trends in Designer Drug Use
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Syndromic surveillance of ED and PCC data has been widely used for the detection, tracking monitoring and monitoring of health events (e.g. bioterrorism, , disease outbreaks, environmental exposures) over the past decade. In recent years, these data… read more… widely, a specific classifier was created to define ED visits related to bath salts. This classifier included many … use for bath salts. Due to small daily counts of both ED visits and PCC exposure calls, the data were totaled by … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …