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  • Using Scan Statistic to Detect Heroin Overdose Clusters with Hospital Emergency Room Visit Data

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    Early detection of heroin overdose clusters is important in the current battle against the opioid crisis to effectively implement prevention and control measures. The New York State syndromic surveillance system collects hospital emergency… read more
    … system collects hospital emergency department (ED) visit data, including visit time, chief complaint, and patient zip code. This data … system collects hospital emergency department (ED) visit data, including visit time, chief complaint, and … Heroin Overdose Clusters with Hospital Emergency Room Visit Data …
  • Carbon Monoxide Poisoning during Hurricane Sandy in Affected New York State Counties

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    CO poisoning is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in disaster and post-disaster situations, when widespread power outages most likely occur (1, 2). The NYSDOH Syndromic Surveillance System receives daily ED visit chief complaint data from… read more
    … NYSDOH Syndromic Surveillance System receives daily ED visit chief complaint data from 140 NYS (excluding New York … NYSDOH Syndromic Surveillance System receives daily ED visit chief complaint data from 140 NYS (excluding New York …
  • Evaluation of Emergency Department Data Quality following PHIN Syndromic Surveillance Messaging Guide

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    The final rules released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services specified the initial criteria for eligible hospitals to qualify for an incentive payment by demonstrating meaningful use of certified Electronic Health Record (EHR)… read more
    … York hospitals are reporting emergency department (ED) visit data to the NY syndromic surveillance (SS) system. … York hospitals are reporting emergency department (ED) visit data to the NY syndromic surveillance (SS) system. …
  • 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
    … or absence of selected pertinent data elements for each visit, and also to assign each visit to one or more defined GI and RESP sub-syndromes. The … in separate data fields in a granular fashion: date of visit, age, gender, chief complaint, vital signs (including …
  • 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
    … surveillance. Methods In-patient, outpatient, and ED visit data from one hospital in RHIO A between June and … is listed in Table 1. The median days from patient visit date to NYSDOH received date is 1 day for ED, and 2 … oximetry. HIE data (50%) were received within 2 days of visit date. The discrepancy of zip code, diagnosis code, and …
  • Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI Syndrome

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense project has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub-syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. This has the potential to… read more
    … was possibly infectious in origin. We did not count the visit within a GI sub-syndrome if another specific etiology …
  • 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. …
  • 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
    … be improved, but much of the misclassification was due to lack of information in the CC and ICD9. Even after …