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Assessing Prior Pain Visits and Medical History Risk Factors for Opioid Overdose
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Opioid overdoses are a growing cause of mortality in the United States. Medical prescriptions for opioids are a risk factor for overdose. This observation raises concerns that patients may seek multiple opioid prescriptions, possibly increasing… read more… overdose. This observation raises concerns that patients may seek multiple opioid prescriptions, possibly increasing … (1) Overdose patients have a larger number of prior ED visits than matched controls. (2) Overdose patients have … -
Going Beyond Chief Complaints to Identify Opioid-Related Emergency Department Visits
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Overdoses of heroin and prescription opioids are a growing cause of mortality in the United States. Deaths from opioids have contributed to a rise in the overall mortality rate of middle-aged white males during an era when other demographics are… read more… patients died from opioid overdoses. Emergency department visits for opioid overdoses can provide a more timely proxy … the information necessary to differentiate opioid-related visits from other overdoses. Objective To identify heroin- … -
Paralysis Analysis: Investigating Paralysis Visit Anomalies in New Jersey
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On July 11, 2012, New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) Communicable Disease Service (CDS) surveillance staff received email notification of a statewide anomaly in EpiCenter for Paralysis. Two additional anomalies followed within three hours. Since… read more… system. … Paralysis Analysis: Investigating Paralysis Visit Anomalies in New Jersey … -
Game Plan: Communicable Disease Surveillance for Super Bowl XLVIII – New Jersey, 2014
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In the summer of 2013, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) began planning for Super Bowl XLVIII to be held on February 2, 2014, in Met Life Stadium, located in the Meadowlands of Bergen County. Surveillance and epidemiology staff in the… read more… system. CDS staff primarily used EpiCenter to monitor ED visits for unusual activity and disease outbreaks during … implemented enhanced reports and expanded monitoring of visit complaints. Objective To describe the surveillance … system. CDS staff primarily used EpiCenter to monitor ED visits for unusual activity and disease outbreaks during … -
Evaluation of Heat-related Illness Surveillance Based on Chief Complaint Data from New Jersey Hospital Emergency Rooms
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The NJ syndromic surveillance system, EpiCenter, developed an algorithm to quantify HRI visits using chief complaint data. While heat advisories are released by the National Weather Service, an effective HRI algorithm could provide real-time health… read more… system, EpiCenter, developed an algorithm to quantify HRI visits using chief complaint data. While heat advisories are … system, EpiCenter, developed an algorithm to quantify HRI visits using chief complaint data. While heat advisories are … -
Nonparametric Models for Identifying Gaps in Message Feeds
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Timely and accurate syndromic surveillance depends on continuous data feeds from healthcare facilities. Typical outlier detection methodologies in syndromic surveillance compare predictions of counts for an interval to observed event counts, either… read more… a significant data burden. Timely detection of outages may require sub-hour aggregation, increasing this burden by … a significant data burden. Timely detection of outages may require sub-hour aggregation, increasing this burden by …