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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… consolidated. Test results could not be monitored due to lack of stan- dardized reporting, so only test orders were … disease syn- dromes based on ICD-9 diagnostic codes. We com- pared laboratory test orders to outpatient visits by … Practice patterns and laboratory test/outpatient visit associations vary by region, so monitoring may be most … -
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… 14 pediatric questionnaires, with 55% reporting a first visit for the current problem. The most frequent complaint … joint aches and rhinorrhea. Only 4% reported the day of visit as the first day they had symptoms. 53% reported that … illness, with 34% absent before the day of the healthcare visit. A minority of patients accessed advice via phone …