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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… Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes, chief complaint (CC), initial recorded temperature, and ED nurse triage note … 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 … -
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.… with a goal of increasing sensitivity. METHODS Patient visits from the 2003-2004 influenza season (9/28/03-3/27/04) … of the term “flu” in either the chief com- plaint (CC) or triage note (TN) field (without evi- dence of fever) … G., Sickbert-Bennett, E., Waller, A., Ising, A. & Mail- lard, J. North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections … -
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… been found to have variable accuracy for both health- care billing3 as well as for disease classification4 due to …