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An Exploration of New Uses of Traditional Data within an Ecological Study: Air Quality Effects on Pediatric Asthma Exacerbation Analysis
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Under a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the DC DOH established the Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (EPHTP) to monitor specific environmental and public health indicators and to investigate any… read more… 2004 and DC hospital pediatric emergency department (ED) visits for asthma exacerbations. Objective The study … the relationship between air quality and pediatric ED visits for asthma among DC residents over a 3 year period. … air quality and pediatric emergency department (ED) visits for asthma among DC residents over a 3 year period. … -
Linking Public Health and Healthcare Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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A number of syndromic surveillance systems include tools that quickly identify potentially large disease outbreak events. However, the high falsepositive rate continues to be a problem in all of these systems. Our earlier work… read more… anomalous health event that presents as only a few cases may remain undetected because the chief complaint data does … surveillance systems. These data source linkings may enhance the sensitivity of syndromic surveillance. … Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 …