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  • GIS Mapping of Occupational Health Visit Data from a Southeastern Ontario Tertiary Care Hospital

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    Health care workers (HCWs) have an increased risk of exposure to infectious agents including (among others) tuberculosis, influenza, norovirus, and Clostridium difficile as a consequence of patient care1,2 Most occupational transmission is… read more
    … gastrointestinal (GI)-related Occupational Health (OH) visits among hospital employees. Document … GIS Mapping of Occupational Health Visit Data from a Southeastern Ontario Tertiary Care … gastrointestinal (GI)-related Occupational Health (OH) visits among hospital employees. BACKGROUND Health care …
  • Defining emergency department asthma visits for public health surveillance

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    Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of asthma control efforts. When using limited clinical ED datasets for secondary purposes such… read more
    … Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of … only the primary ICD-9-CM diagnosis assigned to the ED visit; however, doing so may underestimate the public health …
  • Synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visit trends in Maryland using ESSENCE, 2013-2018

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    Maryland utilizes ESSENCE for identification of emerging public health threats, including non-fatal overdoses. Synthetic cannabinoids are heterogeneous psychoactive compounds identified as substances of abuse [1]. In March 2018, the Illinois… read more
    … free text query to track synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits. Assess trends in synthetic cannabinoid use from … free text query to track synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits. Assess trends in synthetic cannabinoid use from … Synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visit trends in Maryland using ESSENCE, 2013-2018 …
  • Defining and Applying a Method for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data

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    The goal of this paper is to describe a methodology used to create a gold standard set of emergency department (ED) data that can subsequently be used to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of syndrome definitions.
    … thod_For_Establishing_Gold_Standard_Sets_Of_Emergency_Room_Visit_Data.pdf 6 views Submitted by elamb on Mon, 07/30/2018 … for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data George S. Ghneim1, D.V.M., M.P.V.M., Ph.D., … definitions. METHODS There are about 1.1 millions total visits in the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking 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
    … if TOA could be used for identifying clusters of ED visits not filtered by any syndrome or sub-syndrome. In other words, can TOA detect a cluster of ED visits relating to a public health event, even if symptoms … The initial goal is to identify clusters of related ED visits whose keywords, signs and/or symptoms are NOT all …
  • Can Telehealth Ontario Respiratory Call Volume be Used as a Proxy for Emergency Department Respiratory Visit Surveillance by Public Health?

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    The prompt detection of disease outbreaks is a major concern to public health as it has the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality (1). Real-time syndromic surveillance uses existing non-traditional data for timely analysis and feedback to… read more
    … relationship between Ontarioís emergency department (ED) visits and telephone health line (Telehealth Ontario) call … me_Be_Used_As_A_Proxy_For_Emergency_Department_Respiratory_Visit_Surveillance_By_Public_Health_.pdf 2 views Submitted … relationship between Ontario’s emergency department (ED) visits and telephone health line (Telehealth Ontario) call …
  • Visualizing Data Quality: Tools and Views

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    Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health department… read more
    … provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … (aggregated) data which cannot be traced back to the un-aggregated 'raw' data. This and the distributed, … provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. …
  • Comparison of Ambulatory Electronic Health Record and Emergency Department Visit Log Data for Respiratory, Fever, and GI Syndromes

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    This paper describes three years of electronic health record (EHR) data from a network of urban ambulatory care clinics in New York City.
    … bulatory_Electronic_Health_Record_And_Emergency_Department_Visit_Log_Data_For_Respiratory_Fever_And_Gi_Syndromes.pdf 6 … Electronic Health Record and Emergency Department Visit Log Data for Respiratory, Fever, and GI Syndromes … Electronic Health Record and Emergency Department Visit Log Data for Respiratory, Fever, and GI Syndromes …