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A comparison of syndromic surveillance chief complaint data and discharge data in a pediatric hospital system during 2009 H1N1
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The Syndromic Surveillance Program (SSP) of the Acute Disease Epidemiology Section of the Georgia Division of Public Health, provides electronic influenza- like- illness (ILI) data to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention… read more… hospital system identified when the percentage of daily visits for ILI had substantively increased. The data includes patient chief complaint (CC) data from emergency department visits for two facilities … was provided to SSP retrospectively to compare with the CC data routinely collected and analyzed. The data was … -
School Health: A Novel School Nurse Clinic Surveillance Project in Coastal Georgia
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The Syndromic Surveillance Program (SSP) of the Georgia Department of Public Health collects chief complaint data from hospitals to characterize health trends in near real time. These data were critical for situational awareness during the 2009 H1N1… read more… demonstrate the feasibility of schoolbased nurse clinic visit syndromic surveillance. Additional objectives include using clinic visit data to identify opportunities for health … and to characterize the type and number of student visits to the school nurses. An electronic module was … -
Using Discharge Diagnoses for Early Notification of Reportable Diseases in Georgia
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The Georgia DPH has used its State Electronic Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (SendSS) Syndromic Surveillance (SS) module to collect, analyze and display analyses of ED patient visits, including DDx data from hospitals throughout Georgia for… read more… to collect, analyze and display analyses of ED patient visits, including DDx data from hospitals throughout Georgia … to collect, analyze and display analyses of ED patient visits, including DDx data from hospitals throughout Georgia … -
Disease Surveillance among Katrina Evacuees in Shelters - Use of a Web-Based Surveillance System during an Emergency Response
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On Monday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. Outside of the affected areas of TX, LA, MS, and AL, GA received the largest number of these evacuees, approximately 125,000. By August 30, 2005, GA began receiving a total of… read more… resident-days). These conditions re- sulted in medical care provided inside (70 refer- rals/1,000 resident-days) … Overall 9.35 Cases/1,000 Resident Days CONCLUSIONS The hard work of Georgia’s Public Health Districts in …