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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… healthcare billing as well as for disease classification due to both coding and physician errors, and these codes … care billing3 as well as for disease classification4 due to both coding and physician errors, and these codes … group and the greater quantity of 5 charts or 20% of all records were selected for each stratum for chart review. … -
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… data and information in North Carolina are available to all local public health staff by several routes. This report … data and in- formation in North Carolina are available to all local public health staff by several routes. This report … to public health stakeholders and partners (four of 14 (26%)). LHD staff obtained syndromic surveillance information … -
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.… Through the use of this system, we are able to de- velop, evaluate and refine syndrome definitions in … attempt at influenza syndrome definition development did not combine evidence of fever with other common symptoms … in the identi- fication of many false positive records. Due to lack of recognition of negation terms (e.g. no …