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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… causing adverse effects in therapeutic use (ICD-9-CM codes E948–E949.9) were obtained from the North Carolina … E Lamb et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 48 Conclusion Temporal trends in ED … Emerging Health Threats Journal E Lamb et al. 2011, 4:s90 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 49 … -
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… of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes, chief complaint (CC), initial recorded … temperature, and ED nurse triage note (TN). As ICD-9-CM codes are not transmitted to our database in a timely … bio- terrorism-associated agents. Available at http://www.bt.cdc. gov /surveillance/syndromedef/index.asp. …