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  • Content Type: Abstract

    The New York State (NYS) Medicaid Program provides healthcare for 34% of the population in New York City (NYC) and 4%-20% in each of the 57 county populations up-state. Prescription data are collected through the sub-mission of claims forms to the… read more
    … (Week 40, in early October, 2003, to Week 20, in late May, 2004), 37 of 57 upstate counties and all 5 counties of … (Week 40, in early October, 2003, to Week 20, in late May, 2004), 37 of 57 upstate counties and all 5 counties of …
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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense project has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub-syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. This has the potential to… read more
    … a retrospective study of emergency department (ED) visits at four New York State hospitals from May 1, 2005 to April 30, 2007. These hospitals have annual ED visits ranging from 24,000 to 33,000 and have electronic … the older age groups. Three physicians then assigned the visits nonexclusively to the sub-syndromes by electronic …
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    Following an Oct 12-13, 2006 snowstorm, almost 400,000 homes in western New York lost power, some for up to 12 days. News reports said that emergency rooms saw many patients with CO exposure; 3 deaths were attributed to CO poisoning. As part of NYS… read more
    … 3 days after the storm, identification of CO-related visits in real time was not feasible. Retrospectively, … included in both. Results From Oct 13 to 20, 302 people visited EDs with complaints of CO exposure and/or SPARCS 0 … received CO-related diagnoses. The daily number of ED visits with CO-related CCs closely followed the epidemic …
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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. The prevalence of these sub… read more
    … of a CC classifier. Methods: A retrospective study of ED visits at four New York State hospitals from May 1, 2005 to … PPV NPV Chest Pain 6.71% 0.56 0.99 0.77 0.97 Dyspnea 6.70% 0.48 0.98 0.62 0.96 Asthma 2.22% 0.45 0.99 0.67 0.99 … 1.00 Pleurisy 0.22% 0.02 1.00 0.22 1.00 Resp Failure 0.26% 0.00 1.00 0.08 1.00 Table 2 – Gastrointestinal …
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    The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System consists of five components: 1. Emergency Department (ED) Phone Call System monitors unusual events or clusters of illnesses in the EDs of participating hospitals;… read more
    … Sys- tem is located on the NYSDOH Secure Health Com- merce System. Data is accessed via the NYSDOH Syndromic … counts and promotional counts. Individual hospitals may view ED data for their hospital only, and Local Health …