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  • Acute Care Alerting and Integrated Public Health Investigation and Response to Syndromic Surveillance Alerts: Example of a Local Food Borne Outbreak

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    To highlight the key role of Emergency Department syn-dromic surveillance in linking acute care and public health, thus enabling collaborative detection, monitoring and management of a local food borne outbreak.
    … Surveillance (RODS)-based system captures real-time ED visits from 7 area hospitals and real-time admissions from 3 … for admissions related to GI ill- ness. Volumes of ED visits, including acuity levels to assess severity of … of the outbreak (Figure 1). Figure 1– EARS graph of ED visits for GI syndrome during a local food borne outbreak in …
  • A Comparison between Syndromic Surveillance 911/EMS and Emergency Department Data

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    To examine data from 911/Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and determine whether these data provide a useful addition to syndromic surveillance (SS) when used with emergency department (ED) chief complaint (CC) data.
    … and analyze data from 911/EMS calls and CCs from ED visits. We focused on the “neurologic syndrome” because this … were designed and applied to the patient CC for ED visits occurring from July 1 through December 31, 2005. Data … period, 16,685 911/EMS calls or transports and 23,515 ED visits total were registered. Seventy-two zip codes were …
  • Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance

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    The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) receives daily emergency department (ED) data from 33 (29%) of the 114 EDs in North Carolina. These data are available via a Web-based portal and the Early… read more
    … syndrome queries. METHODS We selected a sample of 500 ED visits from the 2004 NC BEIPS data warehouse. Two hundred … categories based on clinical case definition. All visits were electronically processed for SS twice, once … syndrome designations generated false positives for some visits that did not meet the syndrome definitions according …
  • Detection of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Chief Complaint Data

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    Following an Oct 12-13, 2006 snowstorm, almost 400,000 homes in western New York lost power, some for up to 12 days. News reports said that emergency rooms saw many patients with CO exposure; 3 deaths were attributed to CO poisoning. As part of NYS… read more
    … 3 days after the storm, identification of CO-related visits in real time was not feasible. Retrospectively, … received CO-related diagnoses. The daily number of ED visits with CO-related CCs closely followed the epidemic … in the routinely monitored syndromes. Of the 260 ED visits with CO_related diagnoses, only 59 had CCs that met …
  • Can Syndromic Surveillance Data be Useful for Monitoring Respiratory Illness Activity?

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    A significant amount of resources and effort have been recently invested in syndromic surveillance systems. However, how these systems complement or compare with traditional public health surveillance systems, such as outbreak reporting, is not… read more
    … 2 systems as monitors of respiratory illness activity. ED Visits for ILI and Pneumonia Compared to ILI/Pneumonia … /P ne um on ia O ut br ea ks ILI/Pneumonia Outbreaks ED Visits for ILI and Pneumonia Figure 1 – ED Visits for ILI and Pneumonia Compared to Number of …
  • Using NC DETECT Summary Reports to Share Syndromic Information

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    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) provides early event detection and public health situational awareness to hospital-based and public health users statewide. Authorized users are currently able… read more
    … Word functionality was added. In July 2008, an informal email-based survey was sent to all PHEs and the NC Division … noted Of the four users who responded to the informal email survey (36%), all found the report to be useful. …
  • Relationship between Emergency Room (ER) Syndromic Surveillance Data and Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) Surveillance in Houston, Texas

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    Disease surveillance provides essential information for control and response planning1. Emergency Room (ER) syndromic surveillance data can help to identify changes in disease incidence and affected group thereby providing valuable additional time… read more
    … data showed no significant correlations (P>0.05). The ER visits in Houston significantly (P<0.01) predicted the … of relationship noted in this study demonstrates that ER visits can be used for early prediction of influenza …
  • Monitoring and auditing the transfer of syndromic surveillance data to ensure data completeness

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    The electronic surveillance system for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by DHMH. ESSENCE utilizes a secure, automated process for the transfer of data to the… read more
    … recorded in the data tracking application. An automated e-mail is generated that details which data sources are absent. This e-mail is sent to the OIT employees involved in the ESSENCE … Keywords Data; transfer; audit; ESSENCE *Zachary Faigen E-mail: zfaigen@dhmh.state.md.us (page number not for citation …