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  • Traditional and Mobile Public Health Alert Communications with Health Care Providers

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    The effectiveness of emergency preparedness and response systems depends, in part, on the effectiveness of communication between agencies and individuals involved in emergency response, including health care providers who play a significant role in… read more
    … the effectiveness of mobile (SMS) and traditional (email, FAX) communication strategies for sending public … To systematically compare mobile (SMS) and traditional (email, FAX) communication strategies to identify which … the effectiveness of mobile (SMS) and traditional (email, FAX) communication strategies for sending public …
  • ICD9 as a Surrogate for Chart Review in the Validation of a Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System

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    The existing New York State Department of Health emergency department syndromic surveillance system has used patient’s chief complaint (CC) for assigning to six syndrome categories (Respiratory, Fever, Gastrointestinal, Neurological, Rash, Asthma… read more
    … process and allow us to survey a much larger sample of visits. Document … frequent ICD-9 CM based sub- syndromes. The proportion of visits contributing to the 20 most common ED chief complaint … S H ea da ch e H ea rt di se as e, V ira l i nf ec tio n, un sp ec ifi ed Sub-syndrome Vi si t c ou nt Unknown 0-3 …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Based on Emergency Visits: A Reactive Tool for Unusual Events Detection

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    The late health events such as the heat wave of 2003 showed the need to make public health surveillance evolve in France. Thus, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance has developed syndromic surveillance systems based on several… read more
    … Syndromic Surveillance Based on Emergency Visits: A Reactive Tool for Unusual Events Detection …
  • Weather Outlook: Cloudy with a Chance of...— Classification of Storm-Related ED Visits

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    Hurricane ‘Superstorm’ Sandy struck New Jersey on October 29, 2012, causing harm to the health of New Jersey residents and billions of dollars of damage to businesses, transportation, and infrastructure. Monitoring health outcomes for increased… read more
    … with a Chance of...— Classification of Storm-Related ED Visits …
  • Syndromic Surveillance for Influenza in Washington State: A Local and Regional Perspective

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    We explored the utility of tracking emergency department (ED) visits for febrile illness as a proxy for influenza surveillance, from both a local and a regional perspective.
    … the utility of tracking emergency department (ED) visits for febrile illness as a proxy for influenza … the utility of tracking emergency de- partment (ED) visits for febrile illness as a proxy for influenza … There was a strong correlation between weekly ED fever visit counts and positive flu isolates, both for the region …
  • Could Outpatient Visits Enhance Our Ability of Early Detecting Influenza-Like Illness Outbreaks?

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    This paper describes HHC outpatient data and evaluates the performance for early influenza-like illness (ILI) outbreak detection. We compare its detection ability to that of the emergency department (ED) data and of the two data sources… read more
    … Could Outpatient Visits Enhance Our Ability of Early Detecting Influenza-Like …
  • ED Visits Related to Marijuana Exposures in the Denver Metropolitan Area of Colorado

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    Assessing health disparities and access to healthcare has been an important issue for emergency preparedness and response efforts in the Denver metropolitan area. There have been several high profile MJ-related illness outbreaks in the US over the… read more
    … ED Visits Related to Marijuana Exposures in the Denver …
  • Comparing Syndromic Data to Discharge Data to Measure Opioid Overdose Emergency Department Visits

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    Timely and accurate measurement of overdose morbidity using emergency department (ED) data is necessary to inform an effective public health response given the dynamic nature of opioid overdose epidemic in the United States. However, from… read more
    … Data to Measure Opioid Overdose Emergency Department Visits …