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  • Enhanced Surveillance of Heat-Related Illness in Pinal County

    Content Type: Abstract

    Extreme heat is a major cause of weather-related morbidity and mortality in the United States (US).1 HRI is the most frequent cause of environmental exposure-related injury treated in US emergency departments.2 More than 65,000 emergency room visits… read more
    … emergency departments.2 More than 65,000 emergency room visits occur for acute HRI each summer nationwide.3 In … emergency departments.2 More than 65,000 emergency room visits occur for acute HRI each summer nationwide.3 In …
  • Rapid ad-hoc cross-jurisdictional sharing of syndrome data using Distribute technology

    Content Type: Abstract

    Cross-jurisdictional sharing of public health syndrome data is useful for many reasons, among them to provide a larger regional or national view of activity and to determine if unusual activity observed in one jurisdiction is atypical. Considerable… read more
    … of recent interest: alcohol related and heat related ED visits. Objective To demonstrate how rapid adhoc sharing of … of recent interest: alcohol-related and heat-related ED visits. Methods The Distribute system was initially designed … for ad hoc data sharing: alcohol intoxication- related visits and heat exposure-related ED visits. While built …
  • Syndromic Prediction Power: Comparing Covariates and Baselines

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … models: day-of-week, holiday, total daily health facility visits, and a trend variable (date). Models using different … 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 …
  • How good is your data?

    Content Type: Abstract

    Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health… read more
    … provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … vides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. …
  • Emergency department diagnosis code data for surveillance of vaccine adverse events: comparison with the national vaccine adverse event reporting system

    Content Type: Abstract

    Nationally, vaccine safety is monitored through several systems including Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a passive reporting system designed to detect potential vaccine safety concerns. Healthcare providers … read more
    … had visited either an ED, or physician’s office to ED visits with diagnosis codes possibly related to influenza … among North Carolina residents with symptom onset or visit date during 1 January 2008–31 December 2009. We … reports and NC DETECT–ED visits with symptom onset or visit dates during 1 January 2008–31 December 2009. Emerging …
  • Evaluating Utility of Cold-Injury Syndromic Surveillance Data in New York City

    Content Type: Abstract

    Cold weather exposure-related injuries range from hypothermia to less severe conditions such as frost bite, trench foot, and chilblains, which are all preventable causes of mortality and morbidity. In recent years, NYC has successfully used… read more
    … used syndromic surveillance of heat-related ED visits to inform emergency response during heat waves. … used syndromic surveillance of heat-related ED visits to inform emergency response during heat waves. …
  • Effect of the Work Week on Demographics of Heat-Related Illness Patients in Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    As global temperatures increase, so too does interest in the effect of climate change on the population’s health. 2016 represented the hottest year on record globally and well above the 20th century average in Virginia. With large-scale climate… read more
    … exposure as well as identify any temporal patterns in visits. Objective: To describe the differences in patient … exposure as well as identify any temporal patterns in visits. Objective: To describe the differences in patient …
  • Surveilling Non-Opioid Substance Use: Utilizing Multiple Data Sources in Marion County, Indiana

    Content Type: Abstract

    Cocaine, methamphetamine, and spice are addictive, non-opioid substances that negatively impact a person's health through direct and indirect means. Direct health concerns of non-opioid substance use include anxiety, paranoia, seizure, heart attack… read more
    … methamphetamine, and spice related emergency department visits as well as cocaine- and methamphetamine-related death … methamphetamine, and spice related emergency department visits as well as cocaine- and methamphetamine-related death …