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  • Travel and Triage: Pilot project to detect infections after medical tourism procedures

    Content Type: Abstract

    EpiCenter, NJ’s statewide syndromic surveillance system, collects ED registration data. The system uses chief complaint data to classify ED visits into syndrome categories and provides alerts to state and local health departments for surveillance… read more
    … data. The system uses chief complaint data to classify ED visits into syndrome categories and provides alerts to state … including triage notes, which contain more specific ED visit information than chief complaint, from 10 EDs to … data. The system uses chief complaint data to classify ED visits into syndrome categories and provides alerts to state …
  • Better, Stronger, Faster: Making the Case for Adding Data Fields to Syndromic Surveillance, NJ 2015

    Content Type: Case Study

    NJDOH created a custom classification in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the keywords black magic, black mamba, cloud 9, cloud 10,incense, k2, legal high, pot potpourri,… read more
    … in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the … classification for NJ synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits before NJPIES' inquiry. NJDOH staff successfully … in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the …
  • Trends in Injection Opioid Use and Bloodborne Pathogen Related Diseases in New Jersey

    Content Type: Abstract

    When the opioid epidemic began in the early 1990s, pills such as oxycodone were the primary means of abuse. Beginning in 2010, injection use of, first, heroin and then synthetic opioids dramatically increased, which led the number of overdose deaths… read more
    … to test the hypothesis that emergency department (ED) visits for opioid use could be used as a predictor of BBP … to test the hypothesis that emergency department (ED) visits for opioid use could be used as a predictor of BBP …
  • HAI Surveillance Enhancement within EpiCenter by Utilization of Triage Notes

    Content Type: Abstract

    In New Jersey, Health Monitoring Systems Inc.’s (HMS) EpiCenter collects chief complaint data for syndromic surveillance from 79 of 80 emergency departments (ED). Using keyword algorithms, these visits are classified into syndrome categories for… read more
    … departments (ED). Using keyword algorithms, these visits are classified into syndrome categories for … departments (ED). Using keyword algorithms, these visits are classified into syndrome categories for …