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  • Paralysis Analysis: Investigating Paralysis Visit Anomalies in New Jersey

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • Weather Outlook: Cloudy with a Chance of...— Classification of Storm-Related ED Visits

    Content Type: Abstract

    Hurricane ‘Superstorm’ Sandy struck New Jersey on October 29, 2012, causing harm to the health of New Jersey residents and billions of dollars of damage to businesses, transportation, and infrastructure. Monitoring health outcomes for increased… read more
    … with a Chance of...— Classification of Storm-Related ED Visits …
  • Game Plan: Communicable Disease Surveillance for Super Bowl XLVIII – New Jersey, 2014

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • School Daze: Capturing Chemical Exposures in Syndromic Surveillance -- New Jersey 2013

    Content Type: Abstract

    In early May of 2013, two chemical spills occurred within high schools in Atlantic county. These incidents, occurring within a week of each other, highlighted the need to strengthen statewide syndromic surveillance of illnesses caused by such… read more
    … In early May of 2013, two chemical spills occurred within high … chief complaint data taken from emergency department visits. The primary objective behind creation of the new … chief complaint data taken from emergency department visits. The primary objective behind creation of the new …
  • 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 …
  • Validation of New Jersey Emergency Department (ED) Registration Data in BioSense 2.0

    Content Type: Abstract

    BioSense 2.0, a redesigned national syndromic surveillance system, provides users with timely regional and national data classified into disease syndromes, with views of health outcomes and trends for use in situational awareness. As of July 2014,… read more
    … worked with HMS to connect existing data to BioSense. In May, 2013, HMS established a single data feed of New … servers occurs twice daily via SFTP. The average daily visit volume in the transfer is around 10,000 records. This … servers occurs twice daily via SFTP. The average daily visit volume in the transfer is around 10,000 records. This …
  • Development and Application of Syndromic Surveillance for Severe Weather Events Following Hurricane Sandy

    Content Type: Journal Article

    Following Hurricane Superstorm Sandy, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) developed indicators to enhance syndromic surveillance for extreme weather events in EpiCenter, an online system that collects and analyzes… read more
    … emergency department (ED) data and classifies each visit by indicator or syndrome. Tsai Stella Hamby Teresa Chu … emergency department (ED) data and classifies each visit by indicator or syndrome. … Development and …
  • Evaluation of Heat-related Illness Surveillance Based on Chief Complaint Data from New Jersey Hospital Emergency Rooms

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …