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  • Comparison of Influenza-like Illness Syndrome Classification Between Two Syndromic Surveillance Systems

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    In 2004, the BioDefend (BD) syndromic surveillance (SS) system was implemented in Duval County hospitals (Jacksonville, FL). Daily emergency department chief complaints are manually classified and entered into the BD system by… read more
    … one using a clinician’s classification of reason for visit and the other using an automated chief complaint … one using a clinician’s classification of reason for visit and the other us- ing an automated chief complaint … one using a clinician’s classification of reason for visit and the other using an automated chief complaint …
  • Syndromic surveillance of influenza-like illness using automated VA data preliminary results from the Idaho infectious disease reporting network

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    Current influenza-like illness monitoring in Idaho is on the basis of syndromic surveillance using laboratory data, combined with periodic person-to-person reports collected by Idaho state workers. This system relies on voluntary reporting.… read more
    … fashion. Clinical data entered in CPRS includes real-time visit information, vital signs, ICD-9, pharmacy, and labs. … fashion. Clinical data entered in CPRS includes real-time visit information, vital signs, ICD-9, pharmacy, and labs. … fashion. Clinical data entered in CPRS includes real-time visit information, vital signs, ICD-9, pharmacy, and labs. …
  • Building an automated Bayesian case detection system

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    Current practices of automated case detection fall into the extremes of diagnostic accuracy and timeliness. In regards to diagnostic accuracy, electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) is at one extreme and syndromic surveillance is at… read more
    … immediate, and ELR is delayed 7 days from initial patient visit. A plausible solution, a middle way, to the extremes … mediate, and ELR is delayed 7 days from initial patient visit.1 A plausible solution, a middle way, to the extremes … by summing the posterior probability for flu for each visit. Figure 1 shows chart of percent daily expected ED flu …
  • Using Syndromic Data for Opioid Overdose Surveillance in Utah

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    The current surveillance system for opioid-related overdoses at UDOH has been limited to mortality data provided by the Office of the Medical Examiner (OME). Timeliness is a major concern with OME data due to the considerable lag in its availability… read more
    … overdose in real-time using emergency department visit data and to develop an opioid overdose surveillance … overdose in real-time using emergency department visit data and to develop an opioid overdose surveillance …
  • Administrative and syndromic surveillance data can enhance public health surveillance

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    Healthcare data, including emergency department (ED) and outpatient health visit data, are potentially useful to the public health community for multiple purposes, including programmatic and surveillance activities. These data are collected through… read more
    … including emergency department (ED) and outpatient health visit data, are potentially useful to the public health … ESSENCE, also includes additional types of healthcare visit (e.g., urgent care) data. Although NSSP is designed to … including emergency department (ED) and outpatient health visit data, are potentially useful to the public health …
  • A Syndrome Track and Reporting System in Hillsborough County Florida: Findings from a Systematic Evaluation

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    One of the first county-wide syndromic surveillance systems in the nation, the Syndromic Tracking and Reporting System (STARS) has been in operation since 11/01/2001, and now covers Hillsborough, Pinellas and Collier counties.… read more
    … counties. STARS uses hospital emergency department visit data to detect aberrations of non-specific syndromes … by the CDC. Upon flagging of an aberration, follow-up investigation is conducted to verify cases, and … counties. STARS uses hospital emergency department visit data to detect aberrations of non-specific syndromes …
  • Finding Time-of-Arrival Clusters of Exposure-Related Visits to Emergency Departments in Contiguous Hospital Groups

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    Time-of-arrival (TOA) surveillance methodology consists of identifying clusters of patients arriving to a hospital emergency department (ED) with similar complaints within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently… read more
    … within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently conducted by the Florida Department … within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently conducted by the Florida Department … types of exposures. For each hospital, time series of visit counts from 1 hour cells, based on patient …
  • Open Source Development of Syndromic Investigation Decision Support Tools

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    Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS), a syndromic surveillance system created by the University of Pittsburgh has been used in Ohio by the state and local health departments since late 2003. There are currently 133… read more
    … date admitted, age, gender, zip code, hospital name, visit number, chief complaint, and syndrome. The HMS-RODS … date admitted, age, gender, zip code, hospital name, visit number, chief complaint, and syndrome. The HMS-RODS … date admitted, age, gender, zip code, hospital name, visit number, chief complaint, and syndrome. The HMS-RODS …