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Syndromic Surveillance in Support of an Urban Violence Intervention
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Our objective was to adapt the city's syndromic surveillance system to help guide a violence intervention initiative in response to an upsurge in serious assaults and homicides in Boston.… using the chief complaint data it receives daily from all Boston emergency departments. These were defined as … to assaults or to gunshots, stabbings, or slashings. Dis- tributions were computed by victim characteristics … acute care hospitals. Of the 458,376 visits, 4,177 were due to incidents of violence. 3,555 were classified as …