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  • Do Women Really Complain More than Men? Looking at Gastrointestinal Chief Complaints in Boston

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    The purpose of syndromic surveillance is the early identification of disease outbreaks. Classification of chief complaints into syndromes and the type of statistics used for aberration detection can affect outbreak detection sensitivity and… read more
    … and back pain. [1] METHODS We randomly selected 50,000 visits from 9 Boston adult emergency departments (ED) … Black, 30% White and 67% age 20-49 years. Of the 44,877 visits 4,483 chief complaints were classified as GISG (10%). … and specificity for GIC. (p=0.0032) The proportion of visits among women with GIC, Gi1, and Gi2 was 7.7%, 2.3%, …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection - Geocodes for Urban to Rural Mixed Environments: SSIC-Geo

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    The University of Washington has been working since 2000 with partners in Washington State to advance bioterrorism (BT) detection and preparedness. This project collects data on patients presenting with influenza-like … read more
    … (SSIC) Peninsula system has collected 58,542 hospital visits of interest (potentially of infectious nature), and a baseline of 123,285 (total visits) records total. Of these visits of interest, 28,624 (57%) were successfully geocoded. …
  • BioSense Real-Time Data Initiative: Improving Emergency Preparedness- Monitoring Injury Sub-Syndromes

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    Analysis of the BioSense data facilitates the identification, tracking, and management of emergent and routine health events, including potential bioterrorism events, injury related incidents and rapidly spreading naturally occurring events (1).… read more
    … ings, sprains & strains). RESULTS A total of 8,342,336 visits were recorded in the ED Chief Complaint category into … system from January 2, 2006 to July 18, 2007. Of all visits; the greatest proportion binned to the Respiratory … the most frequent were injury NOS (6.7% of total visits), open wounds (3.4%), falls (3.1%), and MVC (2.2%). …
  • Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP): Automated Detection and Reporting of Statutory Notifiable Diseases to Public Health Authorities

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    Clinician initiated reporting of notifiable conditions is often delayed, incomplete, and lacking in detail. We report on the deployment of Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP), a system we have created to automatically screen… read more
    … and Prevention, 133 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 (e-mail: mklompas@partners.org) 1 Advances in Disease … initiative and is still largely done manually by mail, fax, or telephone. Some jurisdic- tions have … the denominator of their choice (e.g., total ambu- latory visits, total number of patients tested for the condition, …
  • Surveillance for Influenza Using the Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance and Hospital Admissions Syndromic Surveillance Systems, Connecticut, 2004-2007

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    In Connecticut, several syndromic surveillance systems have been established to detect and monitor potential public health threats: 1) the hospital admissions syndromic surveillance (HASS) system in 2001; and 2) the emergency… read more
    … of pneumonia admissions and weekly percentage of ED visits for the months October through May due to each … Additional correlation analysis was performed for EDSS visits with children ≤12 years excluded. RESULTS During the … seasons, excluding children ≤12 years from EDSS syndrome visits improved their correlation with laboratory reports, …
  • Health Impact of the 2006 Heat Wave Based on Syndromic Surveillance in Gironde, France

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    In July 2006, an important heat wave occurred in France, and generated alarm of all the public health services. In Gironde, a department in region Aquitaine, the level of "warning and actions" of the Heat Health Watch Warning System, based on an… read more
    … (Agence regionale d’hospitalisation, ARH); - Number of visits for heat-related symptoms (heat stroke, dehydration … Figure 2 showed an unusual increase in the number of visits reported by SOS Médecins for heat related … fo r h ea t sy nd ro m s Figure 2. Number of SOS Médecins visits for heats syndromes between the first June and 31 …
  • Syndromic Surveillance in Major Sporting Event- Jamaican Experience

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    This paper evaluates the expended and enhanced surveillance system specifically syndromic surveillance, which was implemented during the International Cricket Council Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007 (ICC CWC WI 2007) in Western Jamaica.
    … 1124 (82%) were investigated. Emergency Room (ER) visits - The data revealed that there was no significant increase in ER visits during the period under surveillance. CONCLUSION … we did not see (1) major increase in Emergency Room visits (2) major infectious disease outbreaks (3) major food …
  • Syndromic Surveillance of Emergency Department Chief Complaints Post-Hurricane Wilma, Broward County, Florida 2005

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    On October 24, 2005, Hurricane Wilma made landfall on the southwest coast of Florida as a category 3 storm. The storm moved toward the northeast and passed through Palm Beach and Broward Counties before entering the Atlantic… read more
    … 0.67-0.91), respectively. Respiratory illness ED visits showed a weak positive association in the first week … and, PMR 3.67 (95%CI 2.91-4.62) respectively. Visits for MVA shows a moderate negative association for the …