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The New York State Department of Health’s Syndromic Surveillance System
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The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System consists of five components: 1. Emergency Department (ED) Phone Call System monitors unusual events or clusters of illnesses in the EDs of participating hospitals;… read more… consists of five components: 1. Emergency Department (ED) Phone Call System monitors unusual events or clusters of … sists of five components: 1. Emergency Department (ED) Phone Call System monitors unusual events or clusters of … sales counts and percentages are also calculated. ED Phone Call reports and the CDC’s BioSense web- site are … -
The New York State BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience
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In addition to monitoring Emergency Department chief complaint data and pharmacy sales as indicators of outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System also monitors information from the… read more… mation: patient age, gender, coded patient ID and/or visit ID. Although all 8 alerts were determined to be “false … -
Detection of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Chief Complaint Data
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Following an Oct 12-13, 2006 snowstorm, almost 400,000 homes in western New York lost power, some for up to 12 days. News reports said that emergency rooms saw many patients with CO exposure; 3 deaths were attributed to CO poisoning. As part of NYS… read more… 3 days after the storm, identification of CO-related visits in real time was not feasible. Retrospectively, … received CO-related diagnoses. The daily number of ED visits with CO-related CCs closely followed the epidemic … in the routinely monitored syndromes. Of the 260 ED visits with CO_related diagnoses, only 59 had CCs that met …