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  • Opioid Misuse in Missouri: Analyzing Emergency Department Use in Urban/Rural Areas

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    Like many other states in the U.S., Missouri has experienced large increases in opioid abuse resulting in hundreds dying each year and thousands of ED visits due to overdose. Missouri has two major urban areas, St. Louis and Kansas City and a few… read more
    … resulting in hundreds dying each year and thousands of ED visits due to overdose. Missouri has two major urban areas, … patient demographics, and other information about the visit. MODHSS also participates in the Enhanced State … patient demographics, and other information about the visit. MODHSS also participates in the Enhanced State …
  • Trend of Hospital Readmissions, Mortality, ER Visits and Observation Room Stays in Clostridium difficile Infection Cases in Medicare Advantage Population

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    Clostridium difficile (CD) is an important cause of antibiotic and hospital-associated infection. This preventable infection also plays a major role in hospital readmissions, mostly in the elderly, leading to the CMS implementing rules to penalize… read more
    … trends in readmissions, mortality, emergency room(ER) visits and observation room(OR) stays from 2008-2011. … trends in readmissions, mortality, emergency room(ER) visits and observation room(OR) stays from 2008-2011. … …
  • A Survey of Data Recording Procedures at New York City Emergency Departments

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    Data is collected daily by the DOHMH from 49 of the 52 NYC EDs, representing approximately 95% of all ED visits in NYC. Variability in data fields between and within EDs has been noticed for some time. Differences in chief complaint (CC)… read more
    … the 52 NYC EDs, representing approximately 95% of all ED visits in NYC. Variability in data fields between and within … on the DOHMH’s ability to consistently categorize ED visits into syndrome groupings, which may alter how … hospital based emergency department (ED) survey and site visit project conducted by the New York City (NYC) …
  • ED Visits Related to Marijuana Exposures in the Denver Metropolitan Area of Colorado

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    Assessing health disparities and access to healthcare has been an important issue for emergency preparedness and response efforts in the Denver metropolitan area. There have been several high profile MJ-related illness outbreaks in the US over the… read more
    … Adverse health effects related to marijuana (MJ) use may disproportionately impact populations based on age or … Adverse health effects related to marijuana (MJ) use may disproportionately impact populations based on age or … the potential impact of MJ on pediatric health. … ED Visits Related to Marijuana Exposures in the Denver …
  • Evaluating the Validity of ED Visit Data for Biosurveillance

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    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) receives a designated set of data elements electronically available from 110 emergency departments (EDs) (98%) on at least a daily basis via… read more
    … system. Document Evaluating_The_Validity_Of_Ed_Visit_Data_For_Biosurveillance.pdf Submitted by elamb on … Results The study examines 9,144 visit records, 1,717 visits from Hospital L and 7,427 visits for System S. For Hospital L, 11 data fields match …
  • The NGram CC Classifier: A Novel Method of Automatically Creating CC Classifiers Based on ICD9 Groupings

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    Syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) visit data is often based on computer algorithms which assign patient chief complaints (CC) to syndromes. ICD9 code data may also be used to develop visit classifiers for syndromic surveillance but… read more
    … Syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) visit data is often based on computer algorithms which … applies the ICD9 classifier to a training set of ED visits for which both the CC and ICD9 code are known. A … ly C ou nt s ICD ngram Fig. 2 Daily Counts N gram vs ICD y = 0.56x + 23.68 R = 0.9 0.0 20.0 40.0 60.0 80.0 100.0 …
  • Monitoring and Improving Syndromic Surveillance Data Quality

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    The public health problem identified by Alabama Department of Public Health Syndromic Surveillance (AlaSyS) was that the data reflected in the user application of ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more
    … of data should be submitted within 24 hours from time of visit, for near real time results. The slow data processing … report to assess the number of Emergency Department (ED) visits that mentioned heroin in the chief complaint (CC), … of data should be submitted within 24 hours from time of visit, for near real time results. The slow data processing …
  • Missouri Emergency Department Visits for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

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    CO poisoning poses a significant public health burden. It is preventable, yet it remains a leading cause of poisoning in the United States. An effective surveillance system is very important for targeting and monitoring CO poisoning.Methods or… read more
    … for CO poisoning. … Missouri Emergency Department Visits for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning …