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  • Preliminary Analysis of SaTScan's Effectiveness to Detect Known Disease Outbreaks Using Emergency Department Syndromic Data in Los Angeles County

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    Los Angeles County Department of Health Services is currently testing SaTScan’s space-time permutation model to assist in identifying aberrant illness activity in the community and determine it’s ability to detect … read more
    … data. SaTScan could be useful especially due to its ability to provide geographic locations of … syndromic data. SaTScan could be useful especially due to its ability to provide geographic locations of … gastro-intestinal, 2,082 rash, 958 neurological, and 26,042 respiratory cases. The retrospective option found 59 …
  • Automated Syndromic Surveillance System in Los Angeles County

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    The Los Angeles County (LAC) Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Unit has made significant progress in automating the syndromic surveillance system. The surveillance system receives electronic data on a daily basis from different hospital… read more
    … Toyota, Curtis Croker MPH, Patricia Araki MPH, Raymond Aller MD Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, … management staff. Uploading surveillance results to the website has increased access and availability of analysis …
  • Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance and Population-Based Health Monitoring in Los Angeles County

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    The Bioterrorism Surveillance Unit of the Los Angeles County (LAC) Department of Public Health, Acute Communicable Disease Control (ACDC) program analyzes Emergency Department (ED) data daily. Currently capturing over 40% of the ED… read more
    … in the LAC metro area obtained from the weather.com website. Regarding surveillance for morbidity related to the … temperature trends (r=0.67, p<0.0001). Sewage Spill There did not appear to be any increasing trend in ear-related, …
  • Evaluation of Syndromic Surveillance in Detecting Hepatitis A in Los Angeles County

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    In early 2017, HAV outbreaks were identified in San Diego County (490 cases) and Santa Cruz County (73 cases) in California, affecting primarily the homeless and/or illicit drug users. As of October 10, 2017, LAC had identified 12 outbreak-related… read more
    … 2017, LAC had identified 12 outbreak-related HAV cases. Due to LAC’s proximity to San Diego County, and its own … 2017, LAC had identified 12 outbreak-related HAV cases. Due to LAC’s proximity to San Diego County, and its own …
  • Health Effects of LA county Wildfires in October 2007

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    Determine if poor air quality resulting from wildfires could be measured in the general population by monitoring smoke-related respiratory Emergency Department (EDs) visits.
    … 152,028 ED visits, the overall number of daily ED visits did not change significantly during the wildfire period … Hicks L, McClean C, Ginsberg M. MMWR, Supplement, August 26, 2005 / 54(Suppl);190 .Leveraging Syndromic Surveillance …
  • A Comparison of Fever Classified Chief Complaints and Diagnoses with Recorded Body Temperatures

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    The LAC SSS has been in existence since 2004. Currently, the system collects data from over 50 hospitals daily and performs a chief complaint-based syndrome classification analysis of all ED visits. The keyword “fever” is of special interest due to… read more
    … chief complaint-based syndrome classification analysis of all ED visits. The keyword “fever” is of special interest due to its inclusion within several syndrome category … chief complaint-based syndrome classification analysis of all ED visits. The keyword “fever” is of special interest …
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Using Syndromic Surveillance to Identify a Neuro-Invasive Disease Outbreak in Los Angeles County

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    In November of 2001 a syndromic surveillance system was established in Los Angeles (LA) County to analyze emergency department (ED) chief complaints in select hospitals. Chief complaints were analyzed and categorized into a syndrome (rash,… read more
    … Hwang M.D.,M.P.H, Rachel Civen M.D., M.P.H, Raymond Aller M.D. County of Los Angeles, Department of Health … for cases that visited a syndromic surveillance ED. All WNV-NI ecords were reviewed for any mention of ED usage. …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Signal Investigation in Los Angeles County

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    In the fall of 2001, the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response (BT P&R) Unit initiated a syndromic surveillance system utilizing chief complaint data collected from Emergency Departments throughout Los Angeles County (LAC). Chief complaint data… read more
    … experience, a review of the line listing and data from all other surveillance systems and sources (i.e., Terrorism Early Warning Group, Pro-Med, Epi-X, …