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  • Early Detection and Integrated Response to Seasonal Influenza

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    A syndromic surveillance system has been implemented at Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health in Kingston Ontario as part of a pilot project funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care – Public Health Division… read more
    … (implemented since SARS) for Emergency Department (ED) visits and information detailing hospital admissions.   … 2/1/2006 3/1/2006 4/1/2006 Positive Influenza Alerts ED Visits by Syndrome (3 day MA) Lab Results 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 31, 2005 - Alert circulated based on - increasing ED visits for respiratory syndrome - increasing FRI positive …
  • Detecting Changes in Chief Complaint Word Count: Effects on Syndromic Surveillance

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    The New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) receives daily ED data from 49 of NYC’s 52 hospitals, representing approximately 95% of ED visits citywide. Chief complaint (CC) is categorized into syndrome groupings using… read more
    … NYC’s 52 hospitals, representing approximately 95% of ED visits citywide. Chief complaint (CC) is categorized into … DOHMH, thereby affecting the ability to detect syndrome visits consistently. Objective To identify changes in … NYC’s 52 hospitals, representing approximately 95% of ED visits citywide. Chief complaint (CC) is categorized into …
  • Evaluation of Electronic Ambulatory Care Data for Use in the Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet)

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    During summer 2012, Washington State Department of Health (WA DOH) surveyed ILINet providers and found that more than half either utilize their electronic medical record system (EMRS) to gather and report weekly ILINet data, or intend to implement… read more
    … emergency department (ED) data accurately identified ILI visits in electronic ambulatory care data. Objective: To … emergency department (ED) data accurately identified ILI visits in electronic ambulatory care data. 3 views Submitted … emergency department (ED) data accurately identified ILI visits in electronic ambulatory care data. Objective: To …
  • Patterns of Emergency Care Utilization by Chronically Ill

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    The nature of Emergency Room services makes the patients' visits hard to predict and control and the services incur high costs. Chronic patients should not require urgent care to treat their chronic illness, if they were properly managed in… read more
    … The nature of Emergency Room services makes the patients' visits hard to predict and control and the services incur … in primary care. We track frequency of emergency room visits by chronically ill when the primary complaint of … The nature of Emergency Room services makes the patients' visits hard to predict and control and the services incur …
  • Inpatient Data: A New Frontier in VA Biosurveillance and Public Health Monitoring from the Electronic Health Record

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    The Veterans Affairs (VA) ESSENCE obtains electronic health record data from 152 medical centers plus clinics in all 50 states, U.S. territories, and the Philippines. ESSENCE analyzes ICD-9 diagnosis codes and demographic data from outpatient and… read more
    … demographic data from outpatient and emergency department visits using complex aberrancy-detection algorithms. In … data from outpatient and emergency department (ED) visits using complex aberrancy-detection algorithms (1). In … Emerg Infect Dis. 2006;12:1576�9. *Cynthia Lucero E-mail: cynthia.lucero@va.gov (page number not for citation …
  • Monitoring Pharmacy Retail Data for Anomalous Space-Time Clusters

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    Bio-surveillance systems monitor multiple data streams (over-the-counter (OTC) sales, Emergency Department visits, etc.) to detect both natural disease outbreaks (e.g. influenza) and bio-terrorist attacks (e.g. anthrax re-lease). Many detection… read more
    … (over-the-counter (OTC) sales, Emergency Department visits, etc.) to detect both natural disease outbreaks (e.g. … multiple data streams (OTC sales, Emergency Department visits, etc.) to detect both natural disease outbreaks (e.g. … the system involved sending alert reports to users via e-mail. To improve users’ ability to evaluate outbreaks, alert …
  • Preparing Biosurveillance Data for Classic Monitoring

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    Modern surveillance systems use statistical process control (SPC) charts such as Cumulative Sum and Exponentially Weighted Moving Average charts for monitoring daily counts of such quantities as ICD-9 codes from ED visits,… read more
    … daily counts of such quantities as ICD-9 codes from ED visits, sales of medications, and doctors’ office visits. The working assumption is that such pre-clinical … daily counts of such quantities as ICD-9 codes from ED visits, sales of medications, and doctors’ office visits. …
  • The use of NC DETECT ED data to examine heat-related illness

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    NC DETECT provides near-real-time statewide surveillance capacity to local, regional and state level users across NC with twice daily data feeds from 119 (99%) emergency departments (EDs), hourly updates from the statewide poison center, and daily… read more
    … (keyword). The ICD-9-CM report captures the most visits for HRI compared with the HRI keyword and dehydration … line-listing data were used to assign each HRI ED visit to one of the following categories: …