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Using Age & Syndrome to Characterize Epidemic Winter-Seasonal Acute Gastroenteritis
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We describe age- and syndrome-specific emergency department (ED) visit patterns for diarrhea and vomiting associated with periods of confirmed epidemic rotavirus and presumed epidemic norovirus in New York City (NYC).… age- and syndrome-specific emergency department (ED) visit patterns for diarrhea and vomiting associated with … age- and syndrome-specific emergency department (ED) visit patterns for diarrhea and vomiting associated with … patterns suggest NV predominated during the ED visit peak in Dec 2004, RV during the Feb-May 2005 period … -
Surveillance triggers for community-based mitigation of pandemic influenza
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Four waves of pandemic influenza from 1918-1920 in New York City caused ~40,000 deaths, primarily of young-adults and children. The explosiveness of the autumn 1918 wave has led many to believe that in the event of a similar… read more… and a conservative assumption of a ~5:1 excess ED visit to death ratio, we estimate that community-wide … based on 1-wk illness to death lag and ~5:1 excess ED visit/deaths1918. Red squares indicate %cAR for week of … -
Estimating Hospital Admissions for Influenza Using Emergency Department (ED) Syndromic Surveillance Data, New York City
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An important goal of influenza surveillance is to provide public health decisionmakers with timely estimates of the severity of community-wide influenza. One potential indicator is the number of influenza hospitalizations. In New… read more… and chief complaint. ED ILI visits were defined as any visit whose chief complaint indicated fever-flu or …