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Monitoring child mental health related emergency department visits in New York City
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From 2001-2011, mental health-related hospitalizations and ED visits increased among United States children nationwide. During this period, mental health-related hospitalizations among NYC children increased nearly 23%. To estimate mental health-… read more… 2001-2011, mental health-related hospitalizations and ED visits increased among United States children nationwide. … nearly 23%. To estimate mental health-related ED visits in NYC and assess the use of syndromic surveillance … syndromic system with those from a less timely, coded ED visit database. Objective To assess the use of syndromic … -
How good is your data?
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Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health… read more… provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … create some unique data quality issues, with considerable site to site variability. Together with the ISDS, the … of data quality results across participating Distribute sites. Document How_Good_Is_Your_Data.pdf 4 views Submitted … -
Monitoring winter-seasonal acute gastroenteritis emergency department visits by age
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Epidemic acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a major contributor to the global burden of morbidity and mortality. Rotavirus and norovirus epidemics present a significant burden annually, with their predominant impact in temperate climates occurring… read more… pilot for monitoring AGE syndromic emergency department visits, and present preliminary analysis of age-specific … inter_Seasonal_Acute_Gastroenteritis_Empergency_Department_Visits_By_Age.pdf 3 views Submitted by elamb on Thu, … acute gastroenteritis emergency department visits by age Don Olson1*, Ian Painter2 and ISDS Distribute … -
Rapid ad-hoc cross-jurisdictional sharing of syndrome data using Distribute technology
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Cross-jurisdictional sharing of public health syndrome data is useful for many reasons, among them to provide a larger regional or national view of activity and to determine if unusual activity observed in one jurisdiction is atypical. Considerable… read more… of recent interest: alcohol related and heat related ED visits. Objective To demonstrate how rapid adhoc sharing of … of recent interest: alcohol-related and heat-related ED visits. Methods The Distribute system was initially designed … jurisdictions and a pilot has been undertaken to compare sites with preferred definitions and to develop a common ILI … -
Visualizing Data Quality: Tools and Views
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Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health department… read more… provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … some unique data quality issues, with considerable site to site variability. Together with the ISDS, the University of … provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … -
Adopting a common influenza-like illness syndrome across multiple health jurisdictions
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Syndromic surveillance systems were designed for early outbreak and bioterrorism event detection. As practical experience shaped development and implementation, these systems became more broadly used for general surveillance and situational… read more… defined by a formal code-set (Fig. 1). Distribute sites were invited to participate in the assessment based on … historical data consisting of total and ILI-related daily visit counts by age group (B2, 2�4, 5�17, 18�44, 45�64 and … time-series, subsyndrome and age-specific distribution of visits and signal-to-noise measures. Results We found less …