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  • The New York State Department of Health’s Syndromic Surveillance System

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    The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System consists of five components: 1. Emergency Department (ED) Phone Call System monitors unusual events or clusters of illnesses in the EDs of participating hospitals;… read more
    … Administration outpatient care clinical data (ICD-9-CM diag-noses and CPT procedure codes), and LabCorp test … BACKGROUND The NYSDOH Syndromic Surveillance System con- sists of five components: 1. Emergency Department (ED) … Administration (VA) outpatient care clinical data (ICD-9-CM diag- noses and CPT procedure codes), and LabCorp test …
  • 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
    … reports said that emergency rooms saw many patients with CO exposure; 3 deaths were attributed to CO poisoning. As part of NYS DOH’s syndromic surveillance … assess the ability to identify cases of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning from chief complaints (CC) in hospital …
  • 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
    … CO poisoning is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity … (NYSDPS). These data can be used to estimate the risk of CO-EDs and provide useful information for public health … events. Objective 1) To identify carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in three most affected New York State (NYS) …
  • 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
    … of flu. Our own experience was that although flu may be a com- mon presentation in the ED during the flu season, it is …
  • 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
    … Chang et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 5 days for ED, outpatient, and … Health Threats Journal H-G Chang et al. 2011, 4:s67 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 6 …
  • 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
    … User Guide, version 2.06 (September 2006), at http://0- www.cdc.gov.mill1.sjlibrary.org/biosense, 2007. 3. CR …
  • 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
    … ICD-9 CM Based Sub-Syndrome Distributions in BioSense Hospital … hospital data, including ED chief complaints, ICD-9 CM diagnoses, and patient demographic data (with obvious … 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 35000 40000 A bd om in al pa in In ju ry , N O S N au se a an d vo m iti ng C …
  • 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