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  • Dual Monitoring of ILI Syndrome Using the ESSENCE System

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    The threat of terrorism and high-profile disease outbreaks has drawn attention to public health syndromic surveillance systems for early detection of natural or man-made disease events. In this sense, the Miami-Dade County Health… read more
    … the system generates the weekly percentage of ILI visits which is compared with a county baseline and … if it is necessary. Figure 1 – Daily plot of ILI ER visits in Miami-Dade County. Week 16, 2006 The second part … consists of a weekly comparison of percentage of ILI ER visits to ILI baseline and threshold lines for the …
  • Early Detection of Influenza-like Illness: Developing a Multi-Variate Approach

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    The 2003/04 influenza season included a more pathogenetic organism and had an earlier onset. There were noticeably more deaths in otherwise healthy children than in previous seasons. Following this season, States were asked by the Centers for… read more
    … chief complaints from hospital emergency department visits, school absentee reports, diagnostic laboratory reports, visits to physician’s offices, visits to Veterans Administration and Department of Defense …
  • Event Detection in a Vulnerable Population

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    The City of Atlanta, volunteer organizations, and the faith community operate several homeless shelters throughout the city. Services available at these shelters vary, ranging from day services, such as meals, mail collection,… read more
    … generated for the bloody respira- tory syndrome for ED visits on Sunday, March 11 Further inspection of these alerts revealed 8 ED visits for this syndrome statewide. Six of these were from … code (Figures 1 and 2). This was the highest number of ED visits for bloody respiratory illnesses recorded at a single …
  • Seasonal Patterns of Gastrointestinal Illness

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    Objective: To investigate seasonal patterns of gastrointestinal (GI) illness among children and adults.
    … 2001 to Oct 2005. Data were diagnoses for all hospital visits (ED, inpatient, observation). GI visits (N= 1,167,711) were selected by ICD-9 codes using … was significant. RESULTS In Figure 1, numbers of visits with a GI Dx are displayed as overlapping one-year …
  • Seasonal Patterns of Respiratory Diseases: a Proxy for Influenza?

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    One of the most important goals of disease surveillance is to identify the "what" and "when" of an epidemic. Influenza surveillance is made difficult by inconsistent laboratory testing, deficiencies in testing techniques, and coding… read more
    … 2001 to Oct 2005. Data were diagnoses for all hospital visits (ED, inpatient, observation). GI visits (N= 1,167,711) were selected by ICD-9 codes using … was significant. RESULTS In Figure 1, numbers of visits with a GI Dx are displayed as overlapping one-year …
  • Evaluating University syndromic surveillance systems during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic

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    Syndromic surveillance has been widely adopted as a real-time monitoring tool in early response to disease outbreaks. In order to provide real-time information on the impact of 2009 H1N1 during the Fall 2009 semester, Georgetown … read more
    … illness (ILI) cases reported to medical staff: ED visits (GU and GWU Hospital emergency room visits records for patients aged 17–24 years with ILI), SHC (total of visits to the GU and GWU student health centers), off-hour …
  • Effect of expanded recommendations for pediatric seasonal influenza vaccination: an international comparison

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    Seasonal influenza epidemics are responsible for over 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States per year, and 39,000 of them are in children. In the United States, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guides… read more
    … to make an international comparison of rates of ED visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) following the United … the post-policy change response of ILI-related ED visits to Children’s Hospital Boston, using Montreal … We observed a 34% decline in the rate of ILI-related ED visits among two- to four-year-olds for Children’s Hospital …
  • Evaluation of the Connecticut Hospital Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System for Monitoring of Community Gastrointestinal Illness

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    The HEDSS system was implemented in 2004 to monitor disease activity [1]. Twenty of 32 emergency departments (ED) and 1 urgent care clinic provide data. Chief complaints are routinely categorized into 8 syndromes. Although previous studies have… read more
    … reportable events. Weekly percentage of HEDSS GI syndrome visits (combined GI, vomiting, diarrhea and bloody diarrhea) … diseases using correlation coefficients. GI syndrome ED visits were also examined by geographical region and age. … vomiting has a greater magnitude than diarrhea. ED GI visits were correlated with GI hospital admissions (r�0.73, …