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  • Utility of Natural Language Processing for Clinical Quality Measures Reporting

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    Clinical quality measures (CQMs) are tools that help measure and track the quality of health care services. Measuring and reporting CQMs helps to ensure that our health care system is delivering effective, safe, efficient, patient-centered,… read more
    … percentage of patients aged 6 months and older seen for a visit between October 1 and March 31 who received (or … percentage of patients aged 6 months and older seen for a visit between October 1 and March 31 who received (or …
  • Tracking Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in Missouri: Trends and the ICD-CM Transition

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    Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) rates have tripled for Missouri residents in the past three years. NAS is a condition infants suffer soon after birth due to withdrawal after becoming opioid-dependent in the womb. NAS has significant immediate… read more
    … PAS records contain extensive information about the visit, patient, and diagnosis. When examining 2015 annual … percentage change of opioid misuse emergency department visits (as defined by MODHSS) for Missouri women age 18-44 … PAS records contain extensive information about the visit, patient, and diagnosis. When examining 2015 annual …
  • Characterization of communicable disease epidemics using bayesian inversion

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    The evolution of a communicable disease in a human population is not entirely predictable. However, the spreading process can be assumed to vary smoothly in time. The time-dependent infection process can be linked to observations of… read more
    … the delay is caused by incubation and a (hospital) visit delay, modeled as independent random variables. A … data, the delay is caused by incubation and a (hospital) visit delay, modeled as independent random variables. A … planning. Methods We extend the model by Brookmeyer and Gail, for use with biosurveillance data, by adding a model …
  • Analysis of Healthcare Seeking Behavior

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    Healthcare seeking behavior is important to understand when interpreting public health surveillance data, planning for healthcare utilization, or attempting to estimate or model consequences of an adverse event, such as widespread water… read more
    … Control Center (PCC) calls and Emergency Department (ED) visit records. These analyses were conducted in order to … Control Center (PCC) calls and Emergency Department (ED) visit records. These analyses were conducted in order to …
  • Informing Public Health Prevention in NC Using Falls Surveillance Data

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    Falls are a leading cause of fatal and nonfatal injury in NC. As the size of the older adult population is predicted to increase over the next few decades, it is likely that the incidence of falls-related morbidity and mortality will increase in… read more
    … hospital discharge, and emergency department (ED) visit data, to inform falls prevention activities in North … hospital discharge, and emergency department (ED) visit data, to inform falls prevention activities in North …
  • Experimental Syndromic Surveillance in Japan Using Three Aspects: OTC, Outpatients Visits and Ambulance Transfer

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    We started an experimental syndromic surveillance using 1)OTC and 2)outpatients visits, in the last year and included 3)ambulance transfer from this year so as to early detect bioterrorism attack (BTA). 
    … syndromic surveillance using 1)OTC and 2)outpatients visits, in the last year and included 3)ambulance transfer … _Surveillance_In_Japan_Using_Three_Aspects_Otc_Outpatients_Visits_And_Ambulance_Transfer.pdf 9 views Submitted by elamb … in Japan Using Three Aspects: OTC, Outpatients Visits and Ambulance Transfer Yasushi Ohkusa,Ph.D.1), Tamie …
  • Impact of Patient Self-Registration in Emergency Departments on Syndromic Surveillance Data

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    The Florida Department of Health electronically receives hospital emergency department (ED) data from 180 EDs located in 54 of its 67 counties through its Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (… read more
    … patients, which include ED self check-in kiosks, and pre-visit registration smartphone applications and websites. … patients, which include ED self check-in kiosks, and pre-visit registration smartphone applications and websites. …
  • Tracking drug-related overdoses at the local level: Using Syndromic Surveillance in the CO-NCR

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    The United States is in the midst of a drug crisis; drug-related overdoses are the leading cause of unintentional death in the country. In Colorado the rate of fatal drug overdose increased 68% from 2002-2014 (9.7 deaths per 100,000 to 16.3 per 100,… read more
    … this time period (23% increase in emergency department visits since 2011). The CDC’s National Syndromic … daily on patient demographics, chief complaint for visit, diagnosis codes, triage notes, and more. Colorado … this time period (23% increase in emergency department visits since 2011). The CDC’s National Syndromic …