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  • Identifying Emergency Department Care in the Year Prior to Suicide Death

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    Suicide is a leading cause of mortality in the United States, causing about 45,000 deaths annually. Research suggests that universal screening in health care settings may be beneficial for prevention, but few studies have combined detailed suicide… read more
    … : To identify potential emergency department (ED) visits prior to suicide deaths in North Carolina (NC) and … : To identify potential emergency department (ED) visits prior to suicide deaths in North Carolina (NC) and …
  • Fast Graph Structure Learning from Unlabeled Data for Outbreak Detection

    Content Type: Abstract

    Disease surveillance data often has an underlying network structure (e.g. for outbreaks which spread by person-to-person contact). If the underlying graph structure is known, detection methods such as GraphScan (1) can be used to identify an… read more
    … the time series of observed counts (e.g. daily hospital visits for each zip code). Objective Our goal is to learn … the time series of observed counts (e.g., daily hospital visits for each zip code). Methods Our solution builds on … the time series of observed counts (e.g. daily hospital visits for each zip code). Objective Our goal is to learn …
  • Tracking suspected heroin overdoses in CDC's National Syndromic Surveillance Program

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    Overdose deaths involving opioids (i.e., opioid pain relievers and illicit opioids such as heroin) accounted for at least 63% (N = 33,091) of overdose deaths in 2015. Overdose deaths related to illicit opioids, heroin and illicitly-manufactured… read more
    … near real-time ED data on approximately two-thirds of ED visits in the US. NSSP’s data analysis and visualization … allows for tailored syndrome queries and can monitor ED visits related to heroin overdose at the local, state, … near real-time ED data on approximately two-thirds of ED visits in the US. NSSP’s data analysis and visualization …
  • Talking Turkish: Using N-Grams for Syndromic Surveillance in a Turkish Emergency Department without the Need for English Translation

    Content Type: Abstract

    Previously we used an “N-Gram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in English for bioterrorism. The classifier is trained on a set of ED visits for which both the ICD diagnosis code and CC are… read more
    … bioterrorism. The classifier is trained on a set of ED visits for which both the ICD diagnosis code and CC are … bioterrorism. The classifier is trained on a set of ED visits for which both the ICD diagnosis code and CC are … University hospital ED in Turkey. Participants: All ED visits in the database for 2002. Protocol: Two of the …
  • Utilities of Maryland’s syndromic surveillance system: identifying threats, case investigation and situational awareness

    Content Type: Abstract

    Maryland’s electronic surveillance system for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) data includes emergency department visits from all acute care hospitals, over-the-counter medication sales and poison control data that cover… read more
    … epidemics (ESSENCE) data includes emergency department visits from all acute care hospitals, over-the-counter … epidemics (ESSENCE) data includes emergency department visits from all acute care hospitals, over-the-counter … epidemics (ESSENCE) data includes emergency department visits from all acute care hospitals, over-the-counter …
  • Lessons Learned from the Transition to ICD-10-CM: Redefining Syndromic Surveillance Case Definitions for NC DETECT

    Content Type: Abstract

    NC DETECT receives ICD-9-CM codes for emergency department (ED) visits and uses these codes in case definitions for syndromic surveillance (e.g. infectious disease, injury, etc.). Hospitals will begin using ICD-10-CM codes on October 1, 2015. As a… read more
    … receives ICD-9-CM codes for emergency department (ED) visits and uses these codes in case definitions for … receives ICD-9-CM codes for emergency department (ED) visits and uses these codes in case definitions for …
  • ICD9 as a Surrogate for Chart Review in the Validation of a Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System

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    The existing New York State Department of Health emergency department syndromic surveillance system has used patient’s chief complaint (CC) for assigning to six syndrome categories (Respiratory, Fever, Gastrointestinal, Neurological, Rash, Asthma… read more
    … process and allow us to survey a much larger sample of visits. Document … frequent ICD-9 CM based sub- syndromes. The proportion of visits contributing to the 20 most common ED chief complaint … process and allow us to survey a much larger sample of visits. …
  • Inpatient Data: A New Frontier in VA Biosurveillance and Public Health Monitoring from the Electronic Health Record

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    The Veterans Affairs (VA) ESSENCE obtains electronic health record data from 152 medical centers plus clinics in all 50 states, U.S. territories, and the Philippines. ESSENCE analyzes ICD-9 diagnosis codes and demographic data from outpatient and… read more
    … demographic data from outpatient and emergency department visits using complex aberrancy-detection algorithms. In … data from outpatient and emergency department (ED) visits using complex aberrancy-detection algorithms (1). In … demographic data from outpatient and emergency department visits using complex aberrancy-detection algorithms. In …