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Validation of Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Respiratory Syndrome using Electronic Health Records
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Effective and valid surveillance of syndromes can be extremely useful in the early detection of outbreaks and disease trends. However, medical chart checks without patient identifiers and lack of diagnoses in A08 data has made validation difficult.… read more… medical chart checks without patient identifiers and lack of diagnoses in A08 data has made validation difficult. … medical chart checks without patient identifiers and lack of diagnoses in A08 data has made validation difficult. … -
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.… week of November to further quantify the change in ED visit frequency resulting from the poor air quality. RESULTS … include potential syndrome misclassification due to the lack of definitive diagnosis data for most of the EDs, the … -
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 … in July (p=0.04). Seven-day averages of heat-related ED visit counts were strongly correlated with temperature … -
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… classification, and dates of interest (onset date, ED visit date) were reviewed for cases that visited a syndromic … -
Using Syndromic Surveillance to assist in a meningitis outbreak investigation
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Beginning on March 13, 2011, ACDC experienced an unusual increase in reported bacterial meningitis cases in Los Angeles (LA) County. Early in the investigation, there were few epidemiological links between the cases. Three cases were homeless; two… read more… as point source outbreaks. Querying preestablished ED visit, coroner death, and 911 call feeds can provide a …