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  • Syndromic Surveillance in Major Sporting Event- Jamaican Experience

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    This paper evaluates the expended and enhanced surveillance system specifically syndromic surveillance, which was implemented during the International Cricket Council Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007 (ICC CWC WI 2007) in Western Jamaica.
    … 1124 (82%) were investigated. Emergency Room (ER) visits - The data revealed that there was no significant increase in ER visits during the period under surveillance. CONCLUSION … we did not see (1) major increase in Emergency Room visits (2) major infectious disease outbreaks (3) major food …
  • Syndromic Surveillance of Emergency Department Chief Complaints Post-Hurricane Wilma, Broward County, Florida 2005

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    On October 24, 2005, Hurricane Wilma made landfall on the southwest coast of Florida as a category 3 storm. The storm moved toward the northeast and passed through Palm Beach and Broward Counties before entering the Atlantic… read more
    … 0.67-0.91), respectively. Respiratory illness ED visits showed a weak positive association in the first week … and, PMR 3.67 (95%CI 2.91-4.62) respectively. Visits for MVA shows a moderate negative association for the …
  • Acute Care Alerting and Integrated Public Health Investigation and Response to Syndromic Surveillance Alerts: Example of a Local Food Borne Outbreak

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    To highlight the key role of Emergency Department syn-dromic surveillance in linking acute care and public health, thus enabling collaborative detection, monitoring and management of a local food borne outbreak.
    … Surveillance (RODS)-based system captures real-time ED visits from 7 area hospitals and real-time admissions from 3 … for admissions related to GI ill- ness. Volumes of ED visits, including acuity levels to assess severity of … of the outbreak (Figure 1). Figure 1– EARS graph of ED visits for GI syndrome during a local food borne outbreak in …
  • A Comparison between Syndromic Surveillance 911/EMS and Emergency Department Data

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    To examine data from 911/Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and determine whether these data provide a useful addition to syndromic surveillance (SS) when used with emergency department (ED) chief complaint (CC) data.
    … and analyze data from 911/EMS calls and CCs from ED visits. We focused on the “neurologic syndrome” because this … were designed and applied to the patient CC for ED visits occurring from July 1 through December 31, 2005. Data … period, 16,685 911/EMS calls or transports and 23,515 ED visits total were registered. Seventy-two zip codes were …
  • Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance

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    The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) receives daily emergency department (ED) data from 33 (29%) of the 114 EDs in North Carolina. These data are available via a Web-based portal and the Early… read more
    … syndrome queries. METHODS We selected a sample of 500 ED visits from the 2004 NC BEIPS data warehouse. Two hundred … categories based on clinical case definition. All visits were electronically processed for SS twice, once … syndrome designations generated false positives for some visits that did not meet the syndrome definitions according …
  • Detection of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Chief Complaint Data

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    Following an Oct 12-13, 2006 snowstorm, almost 400,000 homes in western New York lost power, some for up to 12 days. News reports said that emergency rooms saw many patients with CO exposure; 3 deaths were attributed to CO poisoning. As part of NYS… read more
    … 3 days after the storm, identification of CO-related visits in real time was not feasible. Retrospectively, … received CO-related diagnoses. The daily number of ED visits with CO-related CCs closely followed the epidemic … in the routinely monitored syndromes. Of the 260 ED visits with CO_related diagnoses, only 59 had CCs that met …
  • Can Syndromic Surveillance Data be Useful for Monitoring Respiratory Illness Activity?

    Content Type: Abstract

    A significant amount of resources and effort have been recently invested in syndromic surveillance systems. However, how these systems complement or compare with traditional public health surveillance systems, such as outbreak reporting, is not… read more
    … 2 systems as monitors of respiratory illness activity. ED Visits for ILI and Pneumonia Compared to ILI/Pneumonia … /P ne um on ia O ut br ea ks ILI/Pneumonia Outbreaks ED Visits for ILI and Pneumonia Figure 1 – ED Visits for ILI and Pneumonia Compared to Number of …
  • An automated influenza-like-illness reporting system using freetext emergency department reports

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    Current methods for influenza surveillance include laboratory confirmed case reporting, sentinel physician reporting of Influenza-Like-Illness (ILI) and chief-complaint monitoring from emergency departments (EDs). The current… read more
    … a 6-month time series graph of the percentage of total ED visits per day with ILI detected by the rule-based logic. … of the UPMC Health System. The average number of daily ED visits with ED reports between July and Dec. 2009 was 569. … 1 Daily reporting chart showing daily percentage of ED visits with ILI (green) and its 5-day moving average (black) …