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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… Between 2008 and 2010, 110 to 113 EDs were submitting visit data to NC DETECT. Several animal bite-related on-line reports are available and provide aggregate and visit-level analyses customized to users' respective jurisdictions. The NC DETECT ED visit database currently provides the most comprehensive and … -
Time of Arrival Analysis in NC DETECT to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records
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TOA identifies clusters of patients arriving to a hospital ED within a short temporal interval. Past implementations have been restricted to records of patients with a specific type of complaint. The Florida Department of Health uses TOA at the… read more… to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records … -
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… of HL7 records received in BioSense do not provide a Visit ID. As a result, BioSense data processing rules use … ID and earliest date in the record to identify a unique visit. If the earliest dates in records with the same … of HL7 records received in BioSense do not provide a Visit ID. As a result, BioSense data processing rules use … -
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… within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently conducted by the Florida Department … within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently conducted by the Florida Department … types of exposures. For each hospital, time series of visit counts from 1 hour cells, based on patient … -
Using State and National Surveillance Systems during World Equestrian Games in NC
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North Carolina hosted the 2018 FEI WEG in Polk County at the Tryon Equestrian Center in September 2018. Polk County, located in the Mountain region of Western North Carolina, is home to 20,357 people, and the population is widely distributed. Event… read more… expected approximately 300,000 to 500,000 people to visit the area, with 800 horses from 71 countries taking … expected approximately 300,000 to 500,000 people to visit the area, with 800 horses from 71 countries taking … -
Data Requests for Research: Best Practices based on the NC DETECT Experience
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The North Carolina Division of Public Health (NC DPH) has been collecting emergency department data in collaboration with the Carolina Center for Health Informatics in the UNC Department of Emergency Medicine since 1999. As of August 2011, there are… read more… tick-borne illness and asthma, and comparison of NC ED visit data to national data, among others. Because the ED visit data are collected under a state mandate and in … -
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… The PHEs filled out a one page paper form for each visit and faxed these forms to staff at DPH, who then …