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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… and set up baseline clinical data and epidemic threshold. Due to English barriers and standardized language problem in … and set up baseline clinical data and epidemic threshold. Due to English barriers and standardized language problem in … stored in the data base. We categorized ED patients into dif- ferent syndromic groups using CoCo and ICD-9 as …