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Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) update: present and future
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Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, EARS Program, MS C-18, Atlanta, GA, USA) is a freeware surveillance tool that can be downloaded from the Center for Disease Control and… read more… Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA E-mail: buu8@cdc.gov Objective The objective of this poster is … baseline/comparison period, an adjustment for total visits (or other denominator), and an option for stratifying … -
Use of emergency department data for case finding following a community anthrax exposure
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On 24 December 2009, a female New Hampshire resident was confirmed to have gastrointestinal anthrax on the basis of clinical findings and laboratory testing. Her source of anthrax was not immediately known, so the New Hampshire… read more… 2Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA E-mail: dswenson@dhhs.state.nh.us Objective This paper … down a pool of nearly 2,00,000 emergency department visits to 62 possible cases requiring further investigation, … -
Using injury surveillance to assess sport and recreation-related heat illness
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Although heat illness is preventable, it is a leading cause of death among U.S. high school and college athletes (1). Despite this, the total burden of heat illness during sports and recreation is unknown. With over 250 million U.S. residents… read more… 5946 (95% confidence interval [CI]�4194�7698) ED visits for sports- and recreation-related heat illnesses … Accessed August 13, 2010. *Ellen Yard E-mail: eyard@cdc.gov (page number not for citation purpose) … U.S. hospital EDs Entire U.S. population Nonfatal ED visits with a reference to heat illness (e.g., ‘‘heat … -
Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza
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We report here on the use of the North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition of influenza for the purpose of influenza surveillance.… with a goal of increasing sensitivity. METHODS Patient visits from the 2003-2004 influenza season (9/28/03-3/27/04) … Ghneim, G., Sickbert-Bennett, E., Waller, A., Ising, A. & Mail- lard, J. North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging … -
Detection of multiple overlapping anomalous clusters in categorical data
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Syndromic surveillance typically involves collecting time-stamped transactional data, such as patient triage or examination records or pharmacy sales. Such records usually span multiple categorical features, such as location, age… read more… Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: sabhnani@cs.cmu.edu Objective We present Disjunctive … Weekly Epidemiological Reports3. The data stores patient visits spanning 26 regions and 9 diseases reported over 2.5 … -
A data simulation model using NRDM pharmaceutical sales counts
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In disease surveillance, an outbreak is often present in more than one data type. If each data type is analyzed separately rather than combined, the statistical power to detect an outbreak may suffer because no single data source… read more… University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: jiq4@pitt.edu Objective This study proposes a … with the syndromic dataset collected during the ED visits of patients in order to improve the power of early … -
Surveillance in New Jersey - From Anthrax to Automation
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In the summer of 2001, New Jersey (NJ) was in the process of developing surveillance activities for bioterrorism. On September 11, 2001, the U.S. suffered a major terrorist attack. Approximately a month later, Anthrax-laced letters were processed… read more… when there was a more defined purpose to reporting ED visits and admissions (e.g., The Republican National … and ED staff; HMS, Inc.; DHSS OITS staff. *Teresa Hamby E-mail: Teresa.Hamby@doh.state.nj.us (page number not for … -
Integrated approach of non-specific surveillance in Reunion Island
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In Reunion Island, the non-specific surveillance was developed since 2006 and was based on the activity of only one hospital emergency department and on mortality. To respond to the threat of influenza A(H1N1) pandemic emergence, this surveillance… read more… regulation center; � number of consultations and home visits by general practi- tioners. These indicators and … Bull EpidémiolHebd. 2010:283� 5. *Pascal Vilain E-mail: Pascal.VILAIN@ars.sante.fr (page number not for …