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  • Using Public School Absentee Data to Enhance Syndromic Surveillance in Miami-Dade County, 2007

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Miami-Dade County Health Department currently utilizes Emergency Department based Syndromic surveillance data, 911 Call Center data, and more recently Public School Absenteeism data. Daily monitoring of school absenteeism… read more
    … hours of 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.; 36.3% (74 of 204) of visits to the ED among 0-17 year olds had a chief complaint … 11:00 p.m., March 11th and 12th. This apparent delay to visit the ED may signal that the GI illness was not severe …
  • Privacy Protection versus Cluster Detection in Spatial Epidemiology

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    With the widespread deployment of near real time population health monitoring, there is increasing focus on spatial cluster detection for identifying disease outbreaks. These spatial epidemiologic methods rely on knowledge of patient location to… read more
    … tions, significant clusters contained fewer additional ED visit points (i.e., points that were not part of the … in small circle) and few additional points from the ED visits (red dots outside small circle). However, when the … with points at zip code centroids (right), many more ED visits were included in the detected cluster. CONCLUSIONS …
  • Use of Surveillance Data to Measure the Impact of Viral Infections among Young Children

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    Respiratory viruses cause substantial morbidity and costly resource utilization among young children, especially during the winter months. Accurate estimates of the impact of these viruses are important in guiding prevention efforts… read more
    … extrapolation to calculate population- based rates of ED visits for influenza and RSV and associated resource … The effect of influenza on hospitalizations, outpatient visits, and courses of antibiotics I nchildren. N Engl J … admission 0.9 (0.4, 1.9) 11.8 (9.3, 14.9) Primary care visit 4.8 (3.7, 6.3) 23.2 (20.1, 26.6) Antibiotic use 3.1 …
  • How’s the Weather? Severe Weather Classifications in Syndromic Surveillance

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    Hurricane ‘Superstorm’ Sandy struck New Jersey on October 29, 2012, causing harm to the health of New Jersey residents and billions of dollars of damage to businesses, transportation, and infrastructure. Monitoring health outcomes for increased… read more
    … in more recent events to monitor for weather-related visits to storm-affected area emergency departments (ED’s). … in more recent events to monitor for weather-related visits to storm-affected area emergency departments (ED’s). …
  • Using Syndromic Surveillance and Climatic Data to Detect High Intensity HFMD Seasons

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    Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a highly infectious disease common among early childhood populations caused by human enteroviruses (Enterovirus genus).1 The enteroviruses responsible for HFMD generally cause mild illness among children in the… read more
    … in emergency department (ED) and urgent care center (UCC) visits for hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) among … in emergency department (ED) and urgent care center (UCC) visits for hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) among …
  • A Probabilistic Case-finding Algorithm for Chronic Disease Surveillance

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    There is a clear need for improved surveillance of chronic diseases to guide public health practice and policy. Chronic disease surveillance has tended to use administrative data, due to the need to link encounters for an individual over time and to… read more
    … a patient to have one hospitalization or two physician visits within two years with a diagnostic code for DM. While … a patient to have one hospitalization or two physician visits within two years with a diagnostic code for DM. While …
  • Sensitivity and Specificity of ICD-9 Based Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural Emergency Department, Michigan 2004

    Content Type: Abstract

    The use of syndromic surveillance systems to assist with the timely detection of unusual health events first occurred prior to the events of September 11, 2001. In the State of Michigan a pilot project with emergency departments began collecting… read more
    … in subgroups including sex, age group, day of week of visit, month of visit, and resi- dency status to determine significant …
  • Influenza messaging and interoperability: the PHLIP assistance team approach

    Content Type: Abstract

    An essential theme of the US Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan is interoperability and the ability to effectively exchange information using specific data and technical standards.1 In 2005, in an effort to accelerate the… read more
    … States that were not available to host an onsite PAT visit were given the option of receiving ‘virtual’ support. … 2010, approximately 10 PHLs receiving either an onsite visit or virtual support by the PAT are now sending …