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Data Requests for Research: Best Practices based on the NC DETECT Experience
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The North Carolina Division of Public Health (NC DPH) has been collecting emergency department data in collaboration with the Carolina Center for Health Informatics in the UNC Department of Emergency Medicine since 1999. As of August 2011, there are… read more… tick-borne illness and asthma, and comparison of NC ED visit data to national data, among others. Because the ED visit data are collected under a state mandate and in … -
Clostridium Difficile, Surveillance Using Laboratory Data from BioSense Hospitals
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To determine the feasibility of using BioSense laboratory data to do surveillance on Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and calculate overall and facility rates of disease.… outpatient), admission and discharge dates, and visit denominator data for rate calculations. A patient was … -
Syndromic Surveillance and Zip Code Data: The Role of Zip Codes in Understanding Populations
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Syndromic surveillance systems use residential zip codes for spatial analysis to identify disease clusters. However, the use of emergency medical services can be influenced by geographic proximity, specialty services, and severity of illness. We… read more… by neighborhood from 21.0 to 64.0 per 1,000. The ED visit rate for Boston residents inversely correlated with … -
The Day-of-the-Week Effect: A Study Across the Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System
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Complex, highly parameterized data models are often used to detect syndromic outbreaks. Unfortunately, such models can pose greater maintenance challenges as parameter variations increase. As such, our work focuses on whether day… read more… or insignificantly across data sources. We found that visit rates by syndrome varied significantly by DoW Further, … -
Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance through Cross-border Data Sharing
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In the fall of 2006, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) proactively began general discussions regarding surveillance issues of mutual interest. Both states, having operational… read more… gender, patient home zip code, admitted date and time, visit number, and free- text chief complaint. Approximately … -
ESSENCE Version 2.0: The Department of Defense's Worldwide Syndromic Surveillance System Receives Several Enhancements
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ESSENCE receives and analyzes data for the Military Health System’s (MHS) 9 million beneficiaries resulting in approximately 90,000 daily outpatient and emergency department visits worldwide. In May 2008, MHS released … read more… laboratory results, disposition codes, reason for visit/chief complaints, vital sign data, and additional … -
Experimental Syndromic Surveillance in Japan Using Three Aspects: OTC, Outpatients Visits and Ambulance Transfer
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We started an experimental syndromic surveillance using 1)OTC and 2)outpatients visits, in the last year and included 3)ambulance transfer from this year so as to early detect bioterrorism attack (BTA).… surveillance for OTC sales or for outpatients visit are also prompted. Further information: Y. Ohkusa … -
Syndromic Surveillance and Influenza-like Illness in Georgia
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There are multiple sources of influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance data within the state of Georgia. These include laboratory surveillance for influenza viruses, sentinel providers that report ILI, pneumonia and… read more… and geographic information are re- ceived on each ED visit. Frequencies and percentage of all visits were …