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  • 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
    … Paralysis Analysis: Investigating Paralysis Visit Anomalies in New Jersey …
  • 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 … they can provide. Menu-driven registration systems can lump all overdoses together regardless of substance. A more … patients died from opioid overdoses. Emergency department visits for opioid overdoses can provide a more timely proxy …
  • 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
    … time. As of February, 2014, 75 of New Jersey’s 81 acute care and satellite emergency departments (EDs) were … 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 …
  • 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
    … (1) Overdose patients have a larger number of prior ED visits than matched controls. (2) Overdose patients have … Identifying text features of emergency department visits associated with risk of future drug overdose. 5 views … (1) Overdose patients have a larger number of prior ED visits than matched controls. (2) Overdose patients have …
  • Alcohol-Related ED Visits and Ohio State Football: Putting the O-H in ETOH

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    According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), binge drinking causes over half of the 88,000 excessive alcohol use deaths and costs approximately $149 billion dollars annually in the United States. Additionally, excessive alcohol use can… read more
    … relationship between alcohol-related emergency department visits in Franklin County, Ohio and Ohio State University … relationship between alcohol-related emergency department visits in Franklin County, Ohio and Ohio State University … Alcohol-Related ED Visits and Ohio State Football: Putting the O-H in ETOH …
  • Impact of Demographics on Healthcare Utilization

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    The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was promoted with two goals: expanding health insurance coverage and reducing healthcare costs. Expanded coverage is expected to partially reduce costs. Emergency department (ED) visits are costlier than comparable… read more
    … The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was promoted with two goals: expanding health … to partially reduce costs. Emergency department (ED) visits are costlier than comparable primary care physician … The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was promoted with two goals: expanding health …
  • Identifying Clusters of Rare and Novel Words in Emergency Department Chief Complaints

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    A goal of biosurveillance is to identify incidents that require a public health response. The challenge is creating specific definitions of such incidents so they can be detected. In syndromic surveillance, this is accomplished by classifying… read more
    … data into categories, and then looking for increases in visits related to those categories. This approach can only … data streams. For unique or rare events, it is hard to know in advance how they will be described or … data into categories, and then looking for increases in visits related to those categories. This approach can only …
  • 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 …