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  • Using ESSENCE to Meet Local Needs for Mental Health Data: Query & Results

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    Mental health is a common and costly concern; it is estimated that nearly 20 percent of adults in the United States live with a mental illness [1] and that more money is spent on mental illness than any other medical condition [2]. One spillover… read more
    … (H-CUP) found a 55% increase in emergency department visits for depression, anxiety, and stress reactions between … (H-CUP) found a 55% increase in emergency department visits for depression, anxiety, and stress reactions between …
  • Identifying Clusters of Rare and Novel Words in Emergency Department Chief Complaints

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    A goal of biosurveillance is to identify incidents that require a public health response. The challenge is creating specific definitions of such incidents so they can be detected. In syndromic surveillance, this is accomplished by classifying… read more
    … data into categories, and then looking for increases in visits related to those categories. This approach can only … data into categories, and then looking for increases in visits related to those categories. This approach can only …
  • Use of Peripheral Health Units in Low-Transmission Ebola Virus Disease Surveillance

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    Existing EVD surveillance strategies in Sierra Leone use a centralized live alert system to refer suspect cases from the community to Ebola treatment centers. As EVD case burden declined in Port Loko District, so did the number of reported alerts.… read more
    … that health center staff used in recording patient visits. Surveillance methods specific to PHUs were … that health center staff used in recording patient visits. Surveillance methods specific to PHUs were …
  • Development and Evaluation of a Data-adaptive Algorithm for Univariate Temporal Biosurveillance Data

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    Numerous recent papers have evaluated algorithms for biosurveillance anomaly detection. Common essential problems in the disparate, evolving data environment include trends, day-of-week effects, and other systematic behavior.… read more
    … of authentic outpatient data covering 1402 days of clinic visit counts. Receiver operating characteristic curves were … 2. Brillman JC, et.al. Modeling emergency department visit patterns for infectious disease complaints: results …
  • Use of the Connecticut Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System for Situational Awareness During Public Health Events

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    In Connecticut (CT), several syndromic surveillance systems have been established by the Department of Public Health (DPH) to detect and monitor potential public health threats. The emergency department syndromic surveillance (EDSS)… read more
    … bump, red spot, follic, pox, derm, rash, zoster. Total visits during the one-week time periods before and after … and were compared to July 2006-June 2008. Monthly visit frequencies and the percentage change in visits were analyzed. RESULTS Anthrax event: ED visits for …
  • Bayesian Analytical Tool for ILI and Fast Detection of Intentional Release

    Content Type: Abstract

    Bio-surveillance is an area providing real time or near real time data sets with a rich structure. In this area, the new wave of interest lies in incorporating medical-based data such as percentage of Influenza-Like-Illnesses (ILI) or count of ILI… read more
    … (ILI) or count of ILI observed during visits to Emergency Room as intelligence function; since … such as percentage of ILI or count of ILI observed during visits to Emergency Room as intelligence function; since … (ILI) or count of ILI observed during visits to Emergency Room as intelligence function; since …
  • Modeling Disease Surveillance and Assessing its Effectiveness for Detection of Acute Respiratory Outbreaks in Resource-Limited Settings

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    A U.S. Department of Defense program is underway to assess health surveillance in resource-poor settings and to evaluate the Early Warning Outbreak Reporting System. This program has included several information-gathering trips,… read more
    … uses health and census data collected during the 2006 Lao visit and incorporates features of recently published agent- … Scenarios investigated were derived from the Lao site visit--the gain from adding EWORS capability in strategic …
  • Assessing and Optimizing the Accuracy of Physician Billing Claims for Use in Automated Syndromic Surveillance

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    To assess the accuracy of community-based physician claims for identifying 5 syndromes: fever, gastrointestinal, neurological, rash, and respiratory.
    … status (+/-), syn- drome type, syndrome ICD-9 code, and visit month (to avoid seasonal bias). The RAMQ then sent the … patient complaints, symptoms, and signs for each sampled visit. The sensitivity, specific- ity, and positive …