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  • How’s the Weather? Severe Weather Classifications in Syndromic Surveillance

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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
    … in more recent events to monitor for weather-related visits to storm-affected area emergency departments (ED’s). … in more recent events to monitor for weather-related visits to storm-affected area emergency departments (ED’s). …
  • Using Syndromic Surveillance and Climatic Data to Detect High Intensity HFMD Seasons

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    Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a highly infectious disease common among early childhood populations caused by human enteroviruses (Enterovirus genus).1 The enteroviruses responsible for HFMD generally cause mild illness among children in the… read more
    … in emergency department (ED) and urgent care center (UCC) visits for hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) among … in emergency department (ED) and urgent care center (UCC) visits for hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) among …
  • A Probabilistic Case-finding Algorithm for Chronic Disease Surveillance

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    There is a clear need for improved surveillance of chronic diseases to guide public health practice and policy. Chronic disease surveillance has tended to use administrative data, due to the need to link encounters for an individual over time and to… read more
    … a patient to have one hospitalization or two physician visits within two years with a diagnostic code for DM. While … a patient to have one hospitalization or two physician visits within two years with a diagnostic code for DM. While …
  • Sensitivity and Specificity of ICD-9 Based Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural Emergency Department, Michigan 2004

    Content Type: Abstract

    The use of syndromic surveillance systems to assist with the timely detection of unusual health events first occurred prior to the events of September 11, 2001. In the State of Michigan a pilot project with emergency departments began collecting… read more
    … in subgroups including sex, age group, day of week of visit, month of visit, and resi- dency status to determine significant …
  • Arizona's Near Real Time School-based Syndromic Surveillance Program

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    1) Describe a near real-time school-based syndromic surveillance program that integrates electronic data records and a two-way health alert system for early outbreak detection, notification, and possible intervention for Arizona schools. 2)… read more
    … nurses to upload critical codes immediately. The alert email is sent to ADHS and the local health depart- ment … submitted approximately 1.6 mil- lion school nurse visit records via the SSSP. ILI and influenza data from …
  • Use of Epidemiological Knowledge to Create Syndromic Surveillance Reports

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance is an investigational approach used to monitor trends of illness in communities. It relies on pre-diagnostic health data rather than laboratory-confirmed clinical diagnoses. Its primary purpose is to detect… read more
    … race/ethnicity, resident zip code, hospital, time of visit and chief complaint whereas bioterrorism-associated … file include patient age, sex, chief complaint, time of visit, race/ethnicity, discharge disposition (e.g. admitted, …
  • Beyond Detection: Attack Characterization with Syndromic and Clinical Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Most research in syndromic surveillance has emphasized early detection, but clinical diagnosis of the index case will tend to occur before detection by syndromic surveillance for certain types of outbreaks [1]. Syndromic surveillance may, however,… read more
    … we conducted a simulation study using ambulatory visit records for respiratory conditions. We used a model … [1] to simulate the daily increase in syndromic clinic visits and the time to first diagnosis through blood culture … each outbreak, we injected the simulated syndromic clinic visits into baseline data and estimated the dis- ease burden …
  • Syndromic Surveillance in the State of Florida

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic Surveillance utilizes health-related symptom data to monitor disease outbreaks. Its’ potential for prompt detection of disease outbreaks and strengthening of rapid public health response is anticipated. As a result, syndromic surveillance… read more
    … were identified. Data collection was through a mail/telephone survey utilizing a questionnaire made of five … While most of the sys- tems are based on data of patient visit to Emergency Department of major hospitals, a few also …