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Effective Use of Laboratory Data for Monitoring Population Health
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Effective public health response to emerging infectious diseases, natural disasters, and bioterrorism requires access to real-time, accurate information on disease patterns and healthcare utilization. The ESSENCE surveillance… read more… which accurately characterize broad disease syndromes but may not be sufficient for monitoring specific diseases. DoD … disease syn- dromes based on ICD-9 diagnostic codes. We com- pared laboratory test orders to outpatient visits by … cultures Blood cultures Respiratory cultures 453 64 26 1 1046 113 42 4 1 0.349 0.354 0.450 San Diego Area … -
Survey of Pre-Clinical Behavior – What Do People Do When They Get Sick?
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The impetus for the development of many first syndromic surveillance systems was the hope of detecting infectious disease outbreaks earlier than with traditional surveillance. Various data sources have been suggested as potential… read more… illness, with 34% absent before the day of the healthcare visit. A minority of patients accessed advice via phone … medications and 46% took them before the day of medical visit, with 71% of these patients purchasing medications for … can start over 2 weeks prior to a healthcare provider visit, suggesting that tracking these absences or purchases …