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  • The evaluation of influenza surveillance data elements for the health information exchange minimum data set

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    The American Health Information Community Harmonized Use Case for the Biosurveillance minimum data set (MDS) was implemented to establish data exchange between regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and the New York State Department of… read more
    … awareness through the Health Information Exchange (HIE) Project. However, the completeness, timeliness of the … Compare the characteristics of patients meeting the HIE influenza-like illness definition who were admitted to … Compare the characteristics of patients meeting the HIE influenza-like illness definition who were admitted to …
  • Detection of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Chief Complaint Data

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    Following an Oct 12-13, 2006 snowstorm, almost 400,000 homes in western New York lost power, some for up to 12 days. News reports said that emergency rooms saw many patients with CO exposure; 3 deaths were attributed to CO poisoning. As part of NYS… read more
    … codes assigned after evaluation of the patient (due within 30 days of each calendar quarter). Objective To … Complaint Data.pdf 1 view Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … codes assigned after evaluation of the patient (due within 30 days of each calendar quarter). Methods The …
  • The Utility of Patient Chief Complaint and ICD 9 Classifiers for the Influenza Sub-Syndrome

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    In order to detect influenza outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance system uses patients’ chief complaint (CC) to assign visits to respiratory and fever syndromes… read more
    … the New York State (NYS) Department of Health emergency de- partment (ED) syndromic surveillance system uses … the false positives, we de- termined whether they were due to a correctable defi- ciency in the classifier. We … 23% (18%-28%) 60% (51%-69%) PPV CORRECTED (95% CIS) 31% (26%-36%) 79% (72%-86%) False positive CC were usually due to …
  • The Exploration of Various Methods for Shigella Outbreak Detection

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    Shigella remains highly infectious in the United States and rapid detection of Shigella outbreaks is crucial for disease control and timely public health actions. The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) implemented a Communicable Disease… read more
    … except for the cumulative sum-related methods, which used all cases. The sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP), positive … created when the case number exceeded the baseline mean, i.e., mean of previous two weeks, plus three standard … 3 HL 64% 90% 27% 98% 33 NBC 43% 80% 11% 96% 56 The SPs did not vary much across six methods while the SE of the PO …
  • The Implementation of an Outbreak Management Solution in New York State

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    Most outbreaks are small and localized in nature, although it is larger outbreaks that result in the most public attention. So a solution to manage an outbreak has to be able to accommodate a response to small outbreaks in a single jurisdiction… read more
    … to help facilitate the communication that occurs at all levels and to support day-to-day operations in order to … improving communications during an incident. 2.To provide all users with a common set of data for decision support. … improving communications during an incident; to provide all users with a common set of data for decision support; to …
  • The Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI and RESP Syndromes

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. The prevalence of these sub… read more
    … 1.00 Pleurisy 0.22% 0.02 1.00 0.22 1.00 Resp Failure 0.26% 0.00 1.00 0.08 1.00 Table 2 – Gastrointestinal …
  • ICD9 as a Surrogate for Chart Review in the Validation of a Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System

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    The existing New York State Department of Health emergency department syndromic surveillance system has used patient’s chief complaint (CC) for assigning to six syndrome categories (Respiratory, Fever, Gastrointestinal, Neurological, Rash, Asthma… read more
    … sub-syndrome distributions were compared. Results Across all hospital systems, the 5 most common ED chief … c Fa lls D iz zi ne ss H em or rh ag e R as h C ou gh E de m a O tit is m ed ia P re gn an cy , ch ild bi rth , M al … 8/31/2006 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 M en ta l di so rd er s S pr ai ns a nd st ra in s A bd om in al pa in …
  • Investigating Syndromic Peaks Using Remotely Available Electronic Medical Records

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    One limitation of syndromic surveillance systems based on emergency department (ED) data is the time and expense to investigate peak signals, especially when that involves phone calls or visits to the hospital. Many EDs use electronic medical… read more
    … had complete data (388 cases). We found that visits for all peaks were classified easily into sub-syndromes. Except … A scan of the summary data revealed the excess was due to visits by children on a Sunday. Conclusion: The data … We speculate that the peak in pediatric fever visits was due to limited availability of pediatric services on a …