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A Pilot Study of Aberration Detection Algorithms with Simulated Data
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To evaluate four algorithms with varying baseline periods and adjustment for day of week for anomaly detection in syndromic surveillance data. read more… for detecting anomalies in daily emergency depart- ment visit data for 130 hospitals with 6 syndrome categories. … -
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… 3 days after the storm, identification of CO-related visits in real time was not feasible. Retrospectively, … received CO-related diagnoses. The daily number of ED visits with CO-related CCs closely followed the epidemic … in the routinely monitored syndromes. Of the 260 ED visits with CO_related diagnoses, only 59 had CCs that met … -
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… of a CC classifier. Methods: A retrospective study of ED visits at four New York State hospitals from May 1, 2005 to … was performed. These hospitals have annual volumes of ED visits from 24,000 to 33,000 and have electronic medical … -
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jurisdiction… read more… informatics; integrated system *Hwa-Gan Chang E-mail: hgc04@health.state.ny.us (page number not for citation … -
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… public health investigations as needed. *Xin Jin E-mail: xxj01@health.state.ny.us (page number not for citation …