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Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance
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The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) receives daily emergency department (ED) data from 33 (29%) of the 114 EDs in North Carolina. These data are available via a Web-based portal and the Early… read more… syndrome queries. METHODS We selected a sample of 500 ED visits from the 2004 NC BEIPS data warehouse. Two hundred … categories based on clinical case definition. All visits were electronically processed for SS twice, once … [3] Wagner, MM, Espino J, Tsui FC, et al. Syndrome and outbreak detection using … -
Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor for Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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The goal of this project is to compare automated syn-dromic surveillance queries using raw chief complaints to those pre-processed with the Emergency Medical Text Processor (EMT-P) system.… syn- dromic surveillance queries using raw chief com- plaints to those pre-processed with the Emergency … data warehouse included 813,536 emergency department (ED) visits. The ED records are queried daily with 6 syndrome … METHODS This study analyzed a subset of the 1,000 ED visits which were previously sampled from the 2004 NC BEIPS … -
Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza
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We report here on the use of the North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition of influenza for the purpose of influenza surveillance.… illness, a combination of evidence of fever and another com- mon symptom was used. The frequency of this com- bination of symptoms in patients diagnosed with in- … RESULTS Mention of the term “flu” in either the chief com- plaint (CC) or triage note (TN) field (without evi- … -
Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition
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In North Carolina, select hospital emergency departments have been submitting data since 2003 for use in syndromic surveillance. These data are collected, stored, and parsed into syndrome categories by the North Carolina… read more… zoster were not included. From the 813,536 ED visits in the database for the calendar year 2004, all visits with the ICD-9-CM code of 052.0-052.9 (CP) and all visits meeting the syndrome definition for FRI were …