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  • Syndromic Surveillance Based on Emergency Visits: A Reactive Tool for Unusual Events Detection

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    The late health events such as the heat wave of 2003 showed the need to make public health surveillance evolve in France. Thus, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance has developed syndromic surveillance systems based on several… read more
    … surveillance. … Syndromic Surveillance Based on Emergency Visits: A Reactive Tool for Unusual Events Detection …
  • Weather Outlook: Cloudy with a Chance of...— Classification of Storm-Related ED Visits

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    Hurricane ‘Superstorm’ Sandy struck New Jersey on October 29, 2012, causing harm to the health of New Jersey residents and billions of dollars of damage to businesses, transportation, and infrastructure. Monitoring health outcomes for increased… read more
    … with a Chance of...— Classification of Storm-Related ED Visits …
  • Monitoring Pharmacy Retail Data for Anomalous Space-Time Clusters

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    Bio-surveillance systems monitor multiple data streams (over-the-counter (OTC) sales, Emergency Department visits, etc.) to detect both natural disease outbreaks (e.g. influenza) and bio-terrorist attacks (e.g. anthrax re-lease). Many detection… read more
    … (over-the-counter (OTC) sales, Emergency Department visits, etc.) to detect both natural disease outbreaks (e.g. … impressive results under simulated environments, but the com- plex behavior of real-world data and high costs asso- … bio-surveillance system. REFERENCES [1] Wagner MM, Tsui F-C, et al., A national retail data monitor for public …
  • Could Outpatient Visits Enhance Our Ability of Early Detecting Influenza-Like Illness Outbreaks?

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    This paper describes HHC outpatient data and evaluates the performance for early influenza-like illness (ILI) outbreak detection. We compare its detection ability to that of the emergency department (ED) data and of the two data sources… read more
    … the two data sources simultaneously. … Could Outpatient Visits Enhance Our Ability of Early Detecting Influenza-Like …
  • Tracking Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in Missouri: Trends and the ICD-CM Transition

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    Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) rates have tripled for Missouri residents in the past three years. NAS is a condition infants suffer soon after birth due to withdrawal after becoming opioid-dependent in the womb. NAS has significant immediate… read more
    … PAS records contain extensive information about the visit, patient, and diagnosis. When examining 2015 annual … percentage change of opioid misuse emergency department visits (as defined by MODHSS) for Missouri women age 18-44 … PAS records contain extensive information about the visit, patient, and diagnosis. When examining 2015 annual …
  • Comparison of Aberration Detection Algorithms for Biosurveillance Systems

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    Use of robust and broadly applicable statistical alerting methods is essential for a public health Biosurveillance system. We compared several algorithms related to the Early Aberration Reporting System C2 (adaptive control chart) method for… read more
    … effects and the total daily volume of facility visits. Adjustment for the total visit volume allows monitoring of surrogate rates instead of … to compare different ways of adjusting for total facility visits and background day-of-week effects. Submitted by …
  • Comparison of 2005-2007 Influenza-Like Illness Observed from Emergency Department Visits in Miami-Dade County

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    The purpose of this study was to compare the 2005- 2006 and 2006-2007 Influenza seasons using Influenza-like illness (ILI) data received from Emergency Departments in Miami-Dade County.
    … _Influenza-Like_Illness_Observed_From_Emergency_Department_Visits_In_Miami-Dade_County.pdf Submitted by elamb on Mon, … Influenza-Like Illness Observed From Emergency Department Visits in Miami-Dade County Guoyan Zhang, MD, MPH, Erin …
  • Increase in Pneumonia Cases as an Early Indicator of Severe and Pandemic Influenza Outbreak

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    Objective To enable the early detection of pandemic influenza, we have designed a system to differentiate between severe and mild influenza outbreaks. Historic information about previous pandemics suggested the evaluation of two… read more
    … and can be diagnosed immediately in a physician office visit, while a confirmed influenza diagnosis requires a … and can be diagnosed immediately in a physician office visit, while a confirmed influenza diagnosis requires a … outpatient office and hospital emergency room (ER) visits in selected counties in Virginia and Maryland, and …