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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 … -
Access to and use of syndromic surveillance information at the local health department level
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Syndromic surveillance data have been widely shown to be useful to large health departments. Use at smaller local health departments (LHDs) has rarely been described, and the effectiveness of various methods of delivering syndromic… read more… staff from a stratified random sample of LHDs during May through September 2009. The survey captured information … to public health stakeholders and partners (four of 14 (26%)). LHD staff obtained syndromic surveillance information … from patient!hospi- tal records; 22 of 85 LHDs (26%) had access to a PHE. The information distributed by … -
Utility of ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes for Public Health Surveillance
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ICD-9-CM codes have been proposed to be used as adjuncts to existing public health reporting systems and are commonly used for public health surveillance and research purposes. However these codes have been found to have variable… read more… their con- cordance to the gold standard criteria of CDC com- municable disease case definitions5 by a review of … for a reportable communicable disease and who met the CDC com- municable disease case definition criteria divided by … assigned for a similar disease, and (4) patient may have had disease but not consistent with specific …