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  • 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
    … include disposition, initial vital signs, up to 11 ICD-9-CM final diagnosis codes, up to five external cause of … include disposition, initial vital signs, up to 11 ICD-9-CM final diagnosis codes, up to five external causes of … the process, requesters view a presentation on https://www.ncdetect. org/ReportsPortal/public/dataRequest.do and …
  • Using NC DETECT for Comprehensive Morbidity Surveillance on Poisoning and Overdose

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    A retrospective analysis of emergency department data in NC for drug and opioid overdoses has been explained previously [1]. We built on this initial work to develop new poisoning and surveillance reports to facilitate near real time surveillance by… read more
    … time and over 75% of ED visits receive at least one ICD-9-CM final diagnosis code within two weeks of the initial … time and over 75% of ED visits receive at least one ICD-9-CM final diagnosis code within two weeks of the initial …
  • Web-Based Spatio-Temporal Display of NC DETECT Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    NC DETECT is the Web-based early event detection and timely public health surveillance system in the North Carolina Public Health Information Network. The reporting system also provides broader public health surveillance reports for… read more
    … data trends statewide. REFERENCES [1] NC DETECT. http://www.ncdetect.org . [2] Adobe Flash. http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/. Advances in Disease Surveillance …
  • 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
    … to add comments, select a severity level and view the com- ments of other users in their jurisdiction(s). Several …
  • Situational Awareness Using Web-based Annotation and Custom Reporting

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    While early event detection systems aim to detect disease outbreaks before traditional means, following up on the many alerts generated by these systems can be time-consuming and a drain on limited resources. Authorized users at local, regional… read more
    … diagnoses, due to the latency in receiving ICD-9-CM final diagnosis codes. The queries account for … Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2004 May http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no5/03- 0646.htm. Accessed July … Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:167 http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no5/03-0646.htm …
  • 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
    … complaint and triage note keyword searches and ICD-9-CM codes. Using the Animal Bite Keyword Report, statewide ED … of case definition keywords. Using the Animal Bite ICD-9-CM Code Report, statewide ED visit data were extracted for 2008�2010. The following ICD-9-CM injury codes are included in this report: E906.0 (dog …
  • Finding Time-of-Arrival Clusters of Exposure-Related Visits to Emergency Departments in Contiguous Hospital Groups

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … 2011. 2. Tokars JI, Burkom H, Xing J, English R, Bloom S, Cox K, et al. Enhancing time-series detection algorithms for …
  • Using Poison Center Syndromic Surveillance for Environmental Health Signals Detection

    Content Type: Abstract

    North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the Web-based early event detection and timely public health surveillance system in the North Carolina Public Health Information Network. At… read more
    … EXAMPLES OF POISON CENTER SIGNALS Expo- sure Date Cases Co Site Syndrome Nitric Acid 09/2005 13 Guilford Work Resp. …