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Data Requests for Research: Best Practices based on the NC DETECT Experience
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The North Carolina Division of Public Health (NC DPH) has been collecting emergency department data in collaboration with the Carolina Center for Health Informatics in the UNC Department of Emergency Medicine since 1999. As of August 2011, there are… read more… include disposition, initial vital signs, up to 11 ICD-9-CM final diagnosis codes, up to five external cause of … include disposition, initial vital signs, up to 11 ICD-9-CM final diagnosis codes, up to five external causes of … the process, requesters view a presentation on https://www.ncdetect. org/ReportsPortal/public/dataRequest.do and … -
Emergency department diagnosis code data for surveillance of vaccine adverse events: comparison with the national vaccine adverse event reporting system
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Nationally, vaccine safety is monitored through several systems including Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a passive reporting system designed to detect potential vaccine safety concerns. Healthcare providers … read more… causing adverse effects in therapeutic use (ICD-9-CM codes E948–E949.9) were obtained from the North Carolina … E Lamb et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 48 Conclusion Temporal trends in ED … Emerging Health Threats Journal E Lamb et al. 2011, 4:s90 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 49 … -
Animal bite surveillance using NC DETECT emergency department visit data
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Animal bites may have potentially devastating consequences, including physical and emotional trauma, infection, rabies exposure, hospitalization, and, rarely, death. NC law requires animal bites be reported to local health directors. However,… read more… complaint and triage note keyword searches and ICD-9-CM codes. Using the Animal Bite Keyword Report, statewide ED … of case definition keywords. Using the Animal Bite ICD-9-CM Code Report, statewide ED visit data were extracted for 2008�2010. The following ICD-9-CM injury codes are included in this report: E906.0 (dog … -
Finding Time-of-Arrival Clusters of Exposure-Related Visits to Emergency Departments in Contiguous Hospital Groups
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Time-of-arrival (TOA) surveillance methodology consists of identifying clusters of patients arriving to a hospital emergency department (ED) with similar complaints within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently… read more… 2011. 2. Tokars JI, Burkom H, Xing J, English R, Bloom S, Cox K, et al. Enhancing time-series detection algorithms for …