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Preliminary Analysis of SaTScan's Effectiveness to Detect Known Disease Outbreaks Using Emergency Department Syndromic Data in Los Angeles County
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Los Angeles County Department of Health Services is currently testing SaTScan’s space-time permutation model to assist in identifying aberrant illness activity in the community and determine it’s ability to detect … read more… data. SaTScan could be useful especially due to its ability to provide geographic locations of … syndromic data. SaTScan could be useful especially due to its ability to provide geographic locations of … gastro-intestinal, 2,082 rash, 958 neurological, and 26,042 respiratory cases. The retrospective option found 59 … -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Using Syndromic Surveillance to Identify a Neuro-Invasive Disease Outbreak in Los Angeles County
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In November of 2001 a syndromic surveillance system was established in Los Angeles (LA) County to analyze emergency department (ED) chief complaints in select hospitals. Chief complaints were analyzed and categorized into a syndrome (rash,… read more… Hwang M.D.,M.P.H, Rachel Civen M.D., M.P.H, Raymond Aller M.D. County of Los Angeles, Department of Health … for cases that visited a syndromic surveillance ED. All WNV-NI ecords were reviewed for any mention of ED usage. … -
Syndromic Surveillance Signal Investigation in Los Angeles County
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In the fall of 2001, the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response (BT P&R) Unit initiated a syndromic surveillance system utilizing chief complaint data collected from Emergency Departments throughout Los Angeles County (LAC). Chief complaint data… read more… experience, a review of the line listing and data from all other surveillance systems and sources (i.e., Terrorism Early Warning Group, Pro-Med, Epi-X, …