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  • Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?

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    A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to improve the performance… read more
    … that these areas received only 15% of total outpatient visits. Because of this seemingly favorable signal-to-noise … that are urgent (triangles). Time to outbreak detection (y-axis) is plotted as a function of false- alarm rate (upper … S, South B, Anthony JA, Kalp E, Gundlapallli A, Curriero FC, et al. Combining free text and structured electronic …
  • Monitoring child mental health related emergency department visits in New York City

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    From 2001-2011, mental health-related hospitalizations and ED visits increased among United States children nationwide. During this period, mental health-related hospitalizations among NYC children increased nearly 23%. To estimate mental health-… read more
    … 2001-2011, mental health-related hospitalizations and ED visits increased among United States children nationwide. … nearly 23%. To estimate mental health-related ED visits in NYC and assess the use of syndromic surveillance chief complaint data to monitor these visits, we compared trends from a near real-time syndromic …
  • Using a Syndromic Approach to Monitor Alcohol-Related Visits of College-Aged Emergency Department Patients

    Content Type: Abstract

    According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) surveillance of drug-related ED visits, underage (B21 years) alcohol-alone visit rates have been increasing since 2004 to 2009 (1… read more
    … Warning Network (DAWN) surveillance of drug-related ED visits, underage (B21 years) alcohol-alone visit rates have … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • Animal bite surveillance using NC DETECT emergency department visit data

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    Animal bites may have potentially devastating consequences, including physical and emotional trauma, infection, rabies exposure, hospitalization, and, rarely, death. NC law requires animal bites be reported to local health directors. However,… read more
    … Between 2008 and 2010, 110 to 113 EDs were submitting visit data to NC DETECT. Several animal bite-related on-line … animal). The burden of ICD-9-CM�coded animal bite visits to total ED visits was examined by age group and … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • Evaluation of Syndrome Algorithms for Detecting Pneumonia Emergency Department Visits

    Content Type: Abstract

    The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) uses ED syndromic surveillance to monitor near real-time trends in pneumonia visits. The original pneumonia algorithm was developed based on ED chief complaints, and more recently was modified… read more
    … to monitor near real-time trends in pneumonia visits. The original pneumonia algorithm was developed based … used to describe pneumonia emergency department (ED) visit trends in New York City (NYC). Submitted by elamb on …
  • Sensitivity and Specificity of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome in the Turkish Language

    Content Type: Abstract

    Previously we developed an “Ngram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in Turkish for bioterrorism. The classifier is developed from a set of ED visits for which both the ICD… read more
    … The classifier is developed from a set of ED visits for which both the ICD diagnosis code and CC are … or “out” of the syndrome. It is possible to dichotomize visits “in” or “out” using N-grams by choosing a cut-off …
  • Use of Syndromic Data to Determine Oral Health Visit Burden on Emergency Departments

    Content Type: Abstract

    Concern over oral health-related ED visits stems from the increasing number of unemployed and uninsured, the cost burden of these visits, and the unavailability of indicated dental care in EDs [1]. Of particular interest to NC state public health… read more
    … Concern over oral health-related ED visits stems from the increasing number of unemployed and uninsured, the cost burden of these visits, and the unavailability of indicated dental care in … Calculations were sought in terms of the Medicaid-covered visit rate relative to the Medicaid-eligible population by …
  • Variation in Visits Classified by GI ICD9 Biosurveillance Sub-Filters as a Function of Age

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    The CDC recently developed sub-syndromes for classifying disease to enhance syndromic surveillance of natural outbreaks and bioterrorism. They have developed ICD9 classifiers for six GI Illness subsyndromes: Abdominal Pain,… read more
    … infections, and Food poisoning. If the number of visits for sub-syndromes varies significantly by age it may impact the design of outbreak detection methods.   …