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Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?
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A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to improve the performance… read more… that these areas received only 15% of total outpatient visits. Because of this seemingly favorable signal-to-noise … that an ARI surveillance system that focused on urgent visits would outperform one that monitored all outpatient … respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas? H Zheng1,2, T … -
Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?
Content Type: Abstract
A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to improve the performance… read more… that these areas received only 15% of total outpatient visits.1 Because of this seemingly favorable signal-to-noise … that an ARI surveillance system that focused on urgent visits would outperform one that monitored all outpatient … respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas? H Zheng1,2, T … -
Incorporating seasonality and other long-term trends improves surveillance for acute respiratory infections
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As the electronic medical record (EMR) market matures, long-term time series of EMR-based surveillance data are becoming available. In this work, we hypothesized that statistical aberrancy-detection methods that incorporate seasonality and other… read more… Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA E-mail: sdelisle@umaryland.edu Introduction As the electronic …