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  • Comparison of Influenza-like Illness Syndrome Classification Between Two Syndromic Surveillance Systems

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    In 2004, the BioDefend (BD) syndromic surveillance (SS) system was implemented in Duval County hospitals (Jacksonville, FL). Daily emergency department chief complaints are manually classified and entered into the BD system by… read more
    … one using a clinician’s classification of reason for visit and the other using an automated chief complaint … The timing of statistical alerts between the systems was com- pared in relation to when sentinel influenza re- … II). J Urban Health. 2003;80(suppl 1):I32–42. [3] Tsui F-C, Espino JU, Dato VM, Gesteland PH, Hutman J, Wagner MM. …
  • Improvement in Performance of Ngram Classifiers with Frequent Updates

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      Syndromic surveillance of emergency department(ED) visit data is often based on computerized classifiers which assign patient chief complaints (CC) tosyndromes. These classifiers may need to be updatedperiodically to account for changes… read more
    …   Syndromic surveillance of emergency department(ED) visit data is often based on computerized classifiers which … chief complaints (CC) tosyndromes. These classifiers may need to be updatedperiodically to account for changes … automatically based on a training set of patient visits for which both the CC and ICD9 are available. This …
  • Investigating Syndromic Peaks Using Remotely Available Electronic Medical Records

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    One limitation of syndromic surveillance systems based on emergency department (ED) data is the time and expense to investigate peak signals, especially when that involves phone calls or visits to the hospital. Many EDs use electronic medical… read more
    … signals, especially when that involves phone calls or visits to the hospital. Many EDs use electronic medical … (EMRs) which are available remotely in real time. This may facilitate the investigation of peak signals. Document … or absence of selected pertinent data elements for each visit, and also to assign each visit to one or more defined …
  • Defining and Applying a Method for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data

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    The goal of this paper is to describe a methodology used to create a gold standard set of emergency department (ED) data that can subsequently be used to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of syndrome definitions.
    … thod_For_Establishing_Gold_Standard_Sets_Of_Emergency_Room_Visit_Data.pdf Submitted by elamb on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 08:40 … definitions. METHODS There are about 1.1 millions total visits in the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and … 2005 static database. Once we removed all injury related visits we were left with 956,015 records. Automated and …
  • Comparison of Ambulatory Electronic Health Record and Emergency Department Visit Log Data for Respiratory, Fever, and GI Syndromes

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    This paper describes three years of electronic health record (EHR) data from a network of urban ambulatory care clinics in New York City.
    … bulatory_Electronic_Health_Record_And_Emergency_Department_Visit_Log_Data_For_Respiratory_Fever_And_Gi_Syndromes.pdf … was examined. Patient encounter data including reason for visit, measured temperature, and diagnoses (ICD9) were … ratio. RESULTS There were approximately 337,000 office visits to the IUFH for the study time period. Fever was …
  • School Health: A Novel School Nurse Clinic Surveillance Project in Coastal Georgia

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    The Syndromic Surveillance Program (SSP) of the Georgia Department of Public Health collects chief complaint data from hospitals to characterize health trends in near real time. These data were critical for situational awareness during the 2009 H1N1… read more
    … demonstrate the feasibility of schoolbased nurse clinic visit syndromic surveillance. Additional objectives include … and to characterize the type and number of student visits to the school nurses. An electronic module was … and to characterize the type and number of student visits to the school nurses. An electronic module was …
  • The Utility of Patient Chief Complaint and ICD 9 Classifiers for the Influenza Sub-Syndrome

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    In order to detect influenza outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance system uses patients’ chief complaint (CC) to assign visits to respiratory and fever syndromes… read more
    … system uses patients’ chief complaint (CC) to assign visits to respiratory and fever syndromes. Recently, the … of flu. Our own experience was that although flu may be a com- mon presentation in the ED during the flu season, it is … 23% (18%-28%) 60% (51%-69%) PPV CORRECTED (95% CIS) 31% (26%-36%) 79% (72%-86%) False positive CC were usually due to …
  • Documenting the Missed Opportunity Period for Influenza Vaccination in Office-based Settings

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    Missed opportunities for influenza vaccination in office-based settings occur when patients (who are inclined to accept influenza vaccination if a provider recommends it) remain unvaccinated after a fall/winter healthcare visit. Healthcare providers… read more
    … it) remain unvaccinated after a fall/winter healthcare visit. Healthcare providers can be very influential in … advantage of opportunities to vaccinate during medical visits. This suggests that provider vaccination behavior, if … it) remain unvaccinated after a fall/winter healthcare visit. Healthcare providers can be very influential in …