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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 … to increase firstly by ICD-9 at initial phase whereas 70-79 year-old female ILI cases initiated the increasing … Dr. Chwan-Chuen King, cc_king99@hotmail.com Figure 1 –Comparison ILI patients selected by different …