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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 chief complaint data to monitor these visits, we compared trends from a near real-time syndromic … -
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… causes an estimated 600,000 deaths worldwide, and 70,000 hospitalizations in the US, primarily among children … pilot for monitoring AGE syndromic emergency department visits, and present preliminary analysis of age-specific … 21894257. *Don Olson E-mail: drolson@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. … -
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. … The x-axis represents the date of the file upload and the y-axis represents the number of days prior to the upload … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
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 … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
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. … vides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
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… time-series, subsyndrome and age-specific distribution of visits and signal-to-noise measures. Results We found less … pubmed/21894257. *Don Olson E-mail: drolson@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …