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The New York State BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience
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In addition to monitoring Emergency Department chief complaint data and pharmacy sales as indicators of outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System also monitors information from the… read more… mation: patient age, gender, coded patient ID and/or visit ID. Although all 8 alerts were determined to be “false … -
Variation of Chief Complaint-Based Respiratory Symptom Data in One Hospital's Nurse Advice Call Center and Emergency Department
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The objective of this report is to describe the variation of symptoms being detected as respiratory or influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome using nurse advice call center (NACC) data and emergency department (ED) chief complaint data compared to… read more… tests occurring within 14 days of NACC call or ED visit by patient first name, last name and date of birth. We … -
Benchmark Data Generation from Discrete Event Contact Network Models
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Historical data are essential for development of detection algorithms. Spatio-temporal data, however, are difficult to come by due to variety of issues concerning patient confidentiality. Several approaches have been used to … read more… of spatio-temporal data corresponding to the time of visit and patient location (census tracts) when symptomatic … -
Integration of Hospital Admissions, Febrile Respiratory Illness Screening and Triage Acuity Score into an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System
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This paper outlines the integration of hospital admission, Febrile Respiratory Illness (FRI) screening and Canadian Triage and Acuity Score (CTAS) data streams within an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance system. These data elements allow… read more… postal code of resi- dence, hospital and date and time of visit. DATA ELEMENTS Admission data – The physician’s … -
Surveillance in the Cloud: A New Platform for Disease Search and Situational Awareness
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Major challenges in syndromic surveillance today include lack of standardization in syndrome definitions and limited ability to detect outbreaks of specific and rare diseases. To generate situational awareness surveillance results… read more… the original data consisting of zip codes and time of visit were randomized. The set of chief complaint data used … -
An automated influenza-like-illness reporting system using freetext emergency department reports
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Current methods for influenza surveillance include laboratory confirmed case reporting, sentinel physician reporting of Influenza-Like-Illness (ILI) and chief-complaint monitoring from emergency departments (EDs). The current… read more… Allegheny County Health Department, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: tsui2@pitt.edu Objective This paper describes an … a 6-month time series graph of the percentage of total ED visits per day with ILI detected by the rule-based logic. … of the UPMC Health System. The average number of daily ED visits with ED reports between July and Dec. 2009 was 569. … -
Innovative Uses for ESSENCE to Improve Standard Communicable Disease Reporting Practices in Miami-Dade County
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To illustrate how ESSENCE can been utilized to collaborate with healthcare practitioners in order to improve communicable disease reporting… SAS 9.1.3. RESULTS In 2007, there was a mean of 2,356 ED visits per day and a mean of 10.2 visits that had a queried … with information about the reportable disease list via email, phone, mail, and on-site hospital visits. Advances in Disease … -
Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?
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Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more… VALE M-183, 200 Meyran Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (e-mail: chapman@cbmi.pitt.edu). 1 Advances in Disease … of an outbreak (23). Near the end of a patient’s visit to a healthcare facility, detailed information about … approxi- mately 40,000 adult patients a year, and patient visit data have been stored in the Medical Archival System …