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  • Increased emergency department presentations for head trauma following media coverage of a fatal epidural hematoma

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    Previous reports have demonstrated the media’s influence on ED visits in situations such as dramatized acetaminophen overdose, media report of celebrity suicides, television public announcements for early stroke care and cardiac visits following… read more
    … were those who: (1) had a measured temperature at the visit of at least 100F, and (2) had a ‘reason for visit’ field that contained either cough or sore throat. …
  • Using influenza rapid test positivity as an early indicator for the onset of seasonal influenza

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    Influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality, with attendant costs of roughly $10 billion for treatment and up to $77 billion in indirect costs annually. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts annual… read more
    … were those who: (1) had a measured temperature at the visit of at least 100F, and (2) had a ‘reason for visit’ field that contained either cough or sore throat. …
  • Using influenza rapid test positivity as an early indicator for the onset of seasonal influenza

    Content Type: Abstract

    Influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality, with attendant costs of roughly $10 billion for treatment and up to $77 billion in indirect costs annually. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts annual influenza… read more
    … were those who: (1) had a measured temperature at the visit of at least 100F, and (2) had a ‘reason for visit’ field that contained either cough or sore throat. …
  • Use of Epidemiological Knowledge to Create Syndromic Surveillance Reports

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    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 … demographic and geographic features of the county must follow a step-by-step evaluation strategy to ensure that … file include patient age, sex, chief complaint, time of visit, race/ethnicity, discharge disposition (e.g. admitted, …
  • Asthma patterns in Boston emergency department visits for children age five and under

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    The burden of asthma on the youngest children in Boston is largely characterized through hospitalizations and self-report surveys. Hospitalization rates are highest in Black and Hispanic populations under age five. A study of… read more
    … as likely to present to an ED for an asthma syndrome visit compared with White children (odds ratio (OR)!1.84 … than White children to present at an ED for an asthma visit. Males accounted for 64% of all asthma syndrome visits …
  • Syndromic Prediction Power: Comparing Covariates and Baselines

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    The eleven syndrome classifications for clinical data records monitored by BioSense include rare events such as death or lymphadenitis and also common occurrences such as respiratory infections. BioSense currently uses two statistical methods for… read more
    … data for this paper consisted of daily military clinical visit count data from the Department of Defense (DoD) for … of 28, 56, and 112 days were used to make one-day-ahead visit count predictions. For each forecast, the baseline …
  • Identification of a measles case using syndromic surveillance in Salt Lake County, Utah

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    In March-April, 2011, Salt Lake Valley Health Department (SLVHD) investigated an outbreak of measles (N=9) resulting from a single imported case from Europe. Syndromic surveillance was used to identify measles-like illness (MLI) and enhance early… read more
    … was still possible) and all ‘measles/testing’ events. Visit notes, laboratory tests and results were obtained … investigated via patient interview by phone and/or home visit. Results Ninety-seven events of interest (of 2365 …
  • Data Requests for Research: Best Practices based on the NC DETECT Experience

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    The North Carolina Division of Public Health (NC DPH) has been collecting emergency department data in collaboration with the Carolina Center for Health Informatics in the UNC Department of Emergency Medicine since 1999. As of August 2011, there are… read more
    … tick-borne illness and asthma, and comparison of NC ED visit data to national data, among others. Because the ED visit data are collected under a state mandate and in …