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Fever as a Measure for Early Detection of Influenza Outbreaks in the Emergency Department
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Emergency Department surveillance methods currently rely on identification of acute illness by tracking chief complaint or ICD9 discharge codes. Newer generation electronic medical records are now capturing additional … read more… cases as defined by ICD9 codes and thus may be able to serve as a useful early … -
Discrete Data from Electronic Medical Records - Next Generation Data Sets for Syndromic Surveillance
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Traditionally Emergency Department syndromic surveillance methods have relied on ICD-9 codes and chief complaints. The implementation of electronic medical record keeping has made much more information available than can… read more… sur- veillance by grouping positive findings such as mus- cle ache, sore throat, cough, fever and headache. …