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  • Defining emergency department asthma visits for public health surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of asthma control efforts. When using limited clinical ED datasets for secondary purposes such… read more
    … Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of … only the primary ICD-9-CM diagnosis assigned to the ED visit; however, doing so may underestimate the public health …
  • Defining and Applying a Method for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    The goal of this paper is to describe a methodology used to create a gold standard set of emergency department (ED) data that can subsequently be used to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of syndrome definitions.
    … thod_For_Establishing_Gold_Standard_Sets_Of_Emergency_Room_Visit_Data.pdf 5 views Submitted by elamb on Mon, 07/30/2018 … for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data George S. Ghneim1, D.V.M., M.P.V.M., Ph.D., … definitions. METHODS There are about 1.1 millions total visits in the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and …
  • COPD-Related ED Visits in North Carolina: Hospitalizations and Return Visits

    Content Type: Abstract

    COPD is a prevalent chronic disease among older adults; exacerbations often result in ED visits and subsequent hospital admissions. A portion of such patients return to the ED within a few days or weeks. In this study, we investigated patterns… read more
    … among older adults; exacerbations often result in ED visits and subsequent hospital admissions. A portion of such … patterns of hospital admissions and short-term return visits resulting from COPD-related ED visits. Objective To … among older adults; exacerbations often result in ED visits and subsequent hospital admissions. A portion of such …
  • Making the Best Use of Textual ED Data for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    In this webinar Dr. Travers will review two tools developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which aid in processing textual CC’s and triage notes in support of syndromic surveillance. Textual data from emergency departments… read more
    … can still be problematic. Chief complaints from ED visits are a common data source for syndromic surveillance, … Chief Complaints •Challenges •Tool developed at UNC A Visit to the ED Chief Complaints- Influenza Chief Complaint: … Developed*& Validated# • Sublanguage analysis, 39,038 ED visits • Validated on 203,509 ED visits • Expert panel …
  • Emergency Department Data Quality Best Practices

    Content Type: Abstract

    Data quality for syndromic surveillance extends beyond validating and evaluating syndrome results. Data aggregators and data providers can take additional steps to monitor and ensure the accuracy of the data. In North Carolina,… read more
    … of data elements that should not change, i.e. time of visit, discharge disposition, etc. The aggregate trends monitored (for each hospital) include a) number of visits/day, b) percentage distributions for disposition, … acuity and insurance codes and c) percentage of visits that receive a diagnosis code, percentage that …
  • Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor for Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The goal of this project is to compare automated syn-dromic surveillance queries using raw chief complaints to those pre-processed with the Emergency Medical Text Processor (EMT-P) system.
    … data warehouse included 813,536 emergency department (ED) visits. The ED records are queried daily with 6 syndrome … METHODS This study analyzed a subset of the 1,000 ED visits which were previously sampled from the 2004 NC BEIPS … by two clinical experts who determined whether the visit met the ILI clinical case definition. Any …
  • Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes

    Content Type: Abstract

    Emergency Department (ED) triage notes are clinical notes that expand upon the chief complaint, and are included in the AHIC minimum dataset for biosurveillance.1  Clinical notes can improve the accuracy of keyword-based syndromes but require… read more
    … a sample of NC DETECT records that included the 4432 ED visits with triage notes for 11/22/2006 and 11/23/2006. … G, Bamberger A, Friedman C. Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor. Advances in …
  • In Search of a Controlled Vocabulary for Emergency Department Chief Complaint: A Comparison of Four Published Chief Complaint Lists

    Content Type: Abstract

    The lack of a standardized vocabulary for recording CC complicates the collection, aggregation, and analysis of CC for any purpose, but especially for real-time surveillance of patterns of illness and injury. The need for a controlled CC vocabulary… read more
    … included them all [1-4]. We used the top 20 ‘Reasons for Visits’ (RFV) from the 2005 Emergency Department Sum- mary … Med 2001; 8(10):980-989. [5]Schneider, D ‘A Reason for Visit Classification for Ambulatory Care’ US DHEW …