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Establishing a Syndromic Surveillance System Using Chief-Complaint Data at Emergency Department of One Regional Hospital in Taipei City to Detect Infectious Disease Outbreaks
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Facing public health threats of bioterrorism and emerging infectious diseases (EID), the traditional passive surveillance system is not efficient and outmoded. Evidences reveal that several newly developed syndromic surveillance… read more… From Oct. 1 to May 31, 2006, there have been 126,675 ED visit data stored in the data base. We categorized ED … the increasing trend by CoCo. Agreement between ICD-9 and CC was 0.58 kappa. CONCLUSIONS Our finding on the increasing … Illness in a Pediatric Population. Ped. Emerg. Care. 2004;20:355-360 [2] Wendy W. Chapman, Lee M. …