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  • The Use of BioSense Data for Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness

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    The BioSense system currently receives real-time data from more than 370 hospitals, as well as national daily batched data from over 1100 Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs medical facilities. BioSense maps chief… read more
    … mapped to: 1) the same indicator (e.g., whether patient visits having a chief complaint of diarrhea also had a final … alone were completed on 343 hospitals while analyses on visits requiring both an ED CCs and final diagnoses were … average rate for the GI syndrome was 140 per 1000 visits (range: 115-170 among facilities) for ED CC and 120 …
  • Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition

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    In North Carolina, select hospital emergency departments have been submitting data since 2003 for use in syndromic surveillance. These data are collected, stored, and parsed into syndrome categories by the North Carolina… read more
    … zoster were not included. From the 813,536 ED visits in the database for the calendar year 2004, all visits with the ICD-9-CM code of 052.0-052.9 (CP) and all visits meeting the syndrome definition for FRI were …
  • Review of the ISDS Distributed Surveillance Taskforce for Real-time Influenza Burden Tracking & Evaluation (DiSTRIBuTE) Project 2007/08 Influenza Season Proof-of-concept Phase

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    This paper describes the initiation, development and proof-of-concept phase of the ISDS DiSTRIBuTE influenza morbidity surveillance project [1].
    … depict respiratory, fever and influenza-like syndrome ED visits by jurisdiction as percent of total. 1/ 21 /2 00 6 2/ … Surface plots depict relative increase in ED syndrome visits as observed / baseline by jurisdiction and age. … The participants reported aggregate daily counts of ED visits by age group (<2, 2-4, 5-17, 18-44, 45-64 and 65+ …
  • Bio-Surveillance and Enhanced Situational Awareness

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      Syndromic surveillance has been used to detect variation in seasonal viral illnesses such as influenza and norovirus infection (1). Limited information is available on the use of a comprehensive bio-surveillance system, including syndromic… read more
    … all age groups. Between 12/1/2006 and 4/1/2007, GI_4 visits averaged 94 a day (7.3% of all visits), compared to 75 visits a day (5.9% of all visits) during the same period the …
  • Using Syndromic Surveillance Data to Identify Emerging Trends in Designer Drug Use

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    Syndromic surveillance of ED and PCC data has been widely used for the detection, tracking monitoring and monitoring of health events (e.g. bioterrorism, , disease outbreaks, environmental exposures) over the past decade. In recent years, these data… read more
    … widely, a specific classifier was created to define ED visits related to bath salts. This classifier included many … use for bath salts. Due to small daily counts of both ED visits and PCC exposure calls, the data were totaled by … In 2010, there were very small numbers (nB5) of both ED visits and PCC calls for bath salts. In 2011, ED visits and …
  • A Comparison of Locally Developed Influenza-like Syndrome Definitions Using Electronic Emergency Department Data in Boston and New York City

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    To compare locally-developed influenza-like syndrome definitions (derived from emergency department (ED) chief complaints) when applied to data from two ISDS DiSTRIBuTE Project participants: Boston and New York City (NYC) [1].
    … daily from 10 of 10 EDs in the city of Boston (avg daily visits ~ 1300). The NYCDOHMH collects data daily from 50 of 61 (82%) EDs in NYC representing 94% of all ED visits (avg daily visits ~ 10,000). Each department uses both a broad (more …
  • Evaluating the utility of school absenteeism during the 2009–2010 influenza season in Los Angeles County

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    It has been postulated that school absenteeism, a non-traditional surveillance data source, may allow for early detection of disease outbreaks, particularly among school-aged children who may not seek emergency medical attention… read more
    … cited. Figure 1 Percent School Absenteeism and ILI ED visits by School Age Groups in Los Angeles County. Emerging … influenza-like illness emergency depart- ment (ILI ED) visits by ages 5–17 and (2) over-the-counter cough/cold … schools (p =0.06). Figure 1 shows the number of ILI ED visits, which peaked in early November for both elementary/ …
  • Radiographic Surveillance in Children: A System for Monitoring Epidemics Associated with Prominent Respiratory Symptoms

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    Yearly epidemics of respiratory diseases occur in children. Early recognition of these and of unexpected epidemics due to new agents or as acts of biological/chemical terrorism is desirable. In this study, we evaluate the ordering of chest… read more
    … ARIMA time series models that provided forecasts of daily visits and chest radiographs were specified. Disease … of competing models. RESULTS There were an average of 129 visits and 21 chest radiographs per day for 3,962 days … ARMA (2,1) model of daily chest radiographs with daily visits as a covariate. This model for the degree of …