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  • Assessing the Potential Impact of the BioSense 24-hour Rule Using NC DETECT ED Data

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    Per a frequently asked questions document on the ISDS website, approximately two thirds of HL7 records received in BioSense do not provide a Visit ID. As a result, BioSense data processing rules use the patient ID, facility ID and earliest date in… read more
    … Per a frequently asked questions document on the ISDS website, approximately two thirds of HL7 records received in … Per a frequently asked questions document on the ISDS website, approximately two thirds of HL7 records received in …
  • Using Syndromic Surveillance Data to Monitor Endocarditis and Sepsis among Drug Users

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    Recreational drug use is a major problem in the United States and around the world. Specifically, drug abuse results in heavy use of emergency department (ED) services, and is a high financial burden to society and to the hospitals due to chronic… read more
    … a high financial burden to society and to the hospitals due to chronic ill health and multiple injection drug use … are at high risk of developing sepsis and endocarditis due to the use of a dirty or infected needle that is either … among drug users. 6 views Submitted by Magou on Sat, 08/26/2017 - 19:47 …
  • Infection Control Practitioner Use of NC DETECT

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    The UNC Department of Emergency Medicine (UNC DEM) conducted an online survey to better understand the surveillance needs of Infection Control Practitioners (ICPs) in North Carolina and solicit feedback on the utility of the North Carolina Disease… read more
    … from 87 hospitals in North Carolina; hospitals with PHEs did not participate in the survey. RESULTS Of 87 ICPs, 46 … 46 respondents, 43% (n=20) had heard of NC DETECT; 57% (n=26) were not familiar with NC DETECT. When asked about …
  • Finding Time-of-Arrival Clusters of Exposure-Related Visits to Emergency Departments in Contiguous Hospital Groups

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    Time-of-arrival (TOA) surveillance methodology consists of identifying clusters of patients arriving to a hospital emergency department (ED) with similar complaints within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently… read more
    … the statewide general/acute care hospital beds and 32% of all emergency department visits statewide. We present … the statewide general/acute care hospital beds and 32% of all ED visits statewide. We present findings from TOA … algorithms for automated bio- surveillance. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009;15:533�9. *Lana Deyneka E-mail: …
  • Identifying Emerging Novel Outbreaks In Textual Emergency Department Data

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    Typical approaches to monitoring ED data classify cases into pre-defined syndromes and then monitor syndrome counts for anomalies. However, syndromes cannot be created to identify every possible cluster of cases of relevance to public health. To… read more
    … hospital location. The NC DPH dataset describes 198,511 de-identified ED visits over one year at 3 North Carolina … hospital location. The NC DPH dataset describes 198,511 de-identified ED visits over one year at 3 North Carolina …
  • Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina

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    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the early event detection system that serves public health users across North Carolina. One important data source for this system is North… read more
    … A (34%) is located in Mecklenburg county. Hospital B (26%) is located in Wake county. Hospital A and Hospital B …
  • Using NC DETECT Summary Reports to Share Syndromic Information

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    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) provides early event detection and public health situational awareness to hospital-based and public health users statewide. Authorized users are currently able… read more
    … In July 2008, an informal email-based survey was sent to all PHEs and the NC Division of Public Health PHE Program … any documented signal investigations, as well as export all of the tabular data to MS Word for further refinement … Wk. ending 08/23/08 38 EARS Signals & Comments 2008-08-26, Syndrome Count: 12, CUSUM Flag: C3. Comments: …
  • Animal bite surveillance using NC DETECT emergency department visit data

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    Animal bites may have potentially devastating consequences, including physical and emotional trauma, infection, rabies exposure, hospitalization, and, rarely, death. NC law requires animal bites be reported to local health directors. However,… read more
    … total ED visits were for 5�9 year olds (Fig. 1). Across all 3 years, males had a slightly higher proportion of … 1. Percentage of ICD-9-CM*�coded animal bite ED visits to all ED visits by patient age and year, 2008�2010, NC DETECT. … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …