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Emergency department diagnosis code data for surveillance of vaccine adverse events: comparison with the national vaccine adverse event reporting system
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Nationally, vaccine safety is monitored through several systems including Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a passive reporting system designed to detect potential vaccine safety concerns. Healthcare providers … read more… to match reports that indicated that the patient had visited either an ED, or physician’s office to ED visits with diagnosis codes possibly related to influenza … 2009–31 January 2010, 100 indicated that the patient visited the ED or a physician’s office. Of these, only 8% … -
Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition
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In North Carolina, select hospital emergency departments have been submitting data since 2003 for use in syndromic surveillance. These data are collected, stored, and parsed into syndrome categories by the North Carolina… read more… zoster were not included. From the 813,536 ED visits in the database for the calendar year 2004, all visits with the ICD-9-CM code of 052.0-052.9 (CP) and all visits meeting the syndrome definition for FRI were …