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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.… and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org ) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition … and Emerging Infection Prevention Sys- tem (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engi- neer a syndrome definition … illness, a combination of evidence of fever and another com- mon symptom was used. The frequency of this com- … -
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… ICD-9-CM codes have been proposed to be used as adjuncts to … Quantification of the positive predictive value for ICD-9 CM diagnosis codes is crucial for assessing their utility … Utility of ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes for Public Health Surveillance Emily E. … ICD-9-CM codes have been proposed to be used as adjuncts to … -
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… of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes, chief complaint (CC), initial recorded … temperature, and ED nurse triage note (TN). As ICD-9-CM codes are not transmitted to our database in a timely … bio- terrorism-associated agents. Available at http://www.bt.cdc. gov /surveillance/syndromedef/index.asp. … -
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… Samoff et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 78 LHDs, and some LHD staff members … Health Threats Journal E Samoff et al. 2011, 4:s111 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 79 …