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Diagnosis Coding Anomalies Resulting in Hemorrhagic Illness Alerts in Veterans Health Administration Outpatient Clinics
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The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) operates over 880 outpatient clinics across the nation. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes… read more… Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes VHA ICD9 coded outpatient visit data for the detection of abnormal patterns of disease … 0.03 HEMORRHAGIC COND NOS 287.9 48 0.07 DROP HEMATOCRIT PRECIP 790.01 71 0.10 HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYND 283.11 209 0.29 … tools in order to promote more accurate outpatient coding may improve the performance of the HI detection model. … -
Super Bowl Surveillance: A Practical Exercise in Inter-Jurisdictional Public Health Information Sharing
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When the Chicago Bears met the Indianapolis Colts for Super Bowl XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public health departments have instituted heightened… read more… XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public … XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public … XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public … -
Enhancing Event Communication in Disease Surveillance: ECC 2.0
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Regional disease surveillance systems allow users the ability to view large amounts of population health information and examine automated alerts that suggest increased disease activity. These systems require users to view and… read more… This interpretation is valuable information that may benefit other users. In addition to the … This interpretation is valuable information that may benefit other users. In addition to the daily … This interpretation is valuable information that may benefit other users. In addition to the … -
Defining Clinical Condition Categories for Biosurveillance
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The goal of this project is to create a set of clinical condition categories based on explicit criteria for use in biosurveillance programs. The categories will be defined and keywords and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for implementation will be proposed.… according to local preferences. However, this disparity may also hinder comparison of biosurveillance data from … nationally notifiable infectious diseases; 3) reasons for visit from CDC’s Hurricane Morbidity Report Form for Active …