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  • Surveillance for Health Effects Secondary to an Expected Rise in Air Pollution

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    Every year the United States generates close to 300 million scrap tires. Due to their high energygenerating capacity, tires can be used as a fuel source (tire-derived fuel, or TDF). In 2006 a paper mill located less than 3 miles… read more
    … average for comparison. Hospital and outpatient clinic visits were monitored for increases in shortness of breath, … with a mechanism for linking these reports with actual visits to a health care provider. Surveillance that is more …
  • Benchmarking Temporal Surveillance Techniques

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    Benchmarking of temporal surveillance techniques is a critical step in the development of an effective syndromic surveillance system. Unfortunately, holding “bakeoffs” to blindly compare approaches is a difficult and often fruitless enterprise, in… read more
    … and then benchmarked using five years of daily visits in the Boston area of the HPHC data. In particular, … mial Model of Transients in Daily Emergency Department Visits for Detecting Infectious Disease Outbreaks. Submit- …
  • Identifying Fractures in BioSense Radiology Reports

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    The purposes of this study are to validate a keyword-based text parsing algorithm for identifying fractures and compare radiology results with chief complaint and ICD-9 final diagnoses.
    … and pharmeutical receipt. METHODS We studied 17,647 visits with an extremity film and final ICD-9 coded … we applied the text parsing algorithm to all 17,647 visits with a text radiography reading. Of these, 73% were …
  • LAHVA: Linked Animal-Human Health Visual Analytics

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    This paper describes our integrated visual analytics framework for analyzing both human emergency room data and veterinary hospital data.
    … Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC) and all general visits to Ban- field the Pet Hospital, veterinary practices (approxi- mately 70,000 visits per week). METHODS LAHVA combines both human and …
  • Comparison of Automated Geocoding Methods in a Distributed Multi-County Disease Surveillance System

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    The University of Washington's Center for Public Health Informatics, in collaboration with the Kitsap County Health District and the UW Clinical Informatics Research Group, has developed the Peninsula Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection… read more
    … c Kitsap County Health District, Bremerton, WA. Hospital Visits Per Day in 30-Day Period ABSTRACT This paper … The UW’s Perl-based system successfully Hospital Visits Per Day in 30-Day Period coded 63 out of 76 records …
  • Evaluating the use of syndromic surveillance for the detection of influenza-like illness in Salt Lake County, Utah

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    Salt Lake Valley Health Department uses syndromic surveillance to monitor influenza-like illness (ILI) activity as part of a comprehensive influenza surveillance program that includes pathogen-specific surveillance, sentinel… read more
    … X100.41F, cough and/or sore throat, and total patient visits were summed from 12 sentinel sites, and used to … Reporting System (EARS).4 Daily ILI and total patient visits were used to calculate weekly percentages of …
  • Clinical Surveillance Markers of Influenza-like Illness (ILI) at a Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital

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    Emerging infections, both natural and intentional, have provided an impetus for improved disease surveillance and response. The recognition of the interdependence of health care systems and public health infrastructure provides… read more
    … imaging tests and spe- cialty consult requests. All visits at the Durham VAMC ED and acute care facility were … and 250 respira- tory ICD-9 only. Of these 1000 patient visits, 570 (57%) met the case definition of ILI. 690 (69%) …
  • The Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI and RESP Syndromes

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. The prevalence of these sub… read more
    … of a CC classifier. Methods: A retrospective study of ED visits at four New York State hospitals from May 1, 2005 to … was performed. These hospitals have annual volumes of ED visits from 24,000 to 33,000 and have electronic medical …