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Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance and Population-Based Health Monitoring in Los Angeles County
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The Bioterrorism Surveillance Unit of the Los Angeles County (LAC) Department of Public Health, Acute Communicable Disease Control (ACDC) program analyzes Emergency Department (ED) data daily. Currently capturing over 40% of the ED… read more… in July (p=0.04). Seven-day averages of heat-related ED visit counts were strongly correlated with temperature … -
Establishing a Syndromic Surveillance System Using Chief-Complaint Data at Emergency Department of One Regional Hospital in Taipei City to Detect Infectious Disease Outbreaks
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Facing public health threats of bioterrorism and emerging infectious diseases (EID), the traditional passive surveillance system is not efficient and outmoded. Evidences reveal that several newly developed syndromic surveillance… read more… From Oct. 1 to May 31, 2006, there have been 126,675 ED visit data stored in the data base. We categorized ED … -
Estimating Hospital Admissions for Influenza Using Emergency Department (ED) Syndromic Surveillance Data, New York City
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An important goal of influenza surveillance is to provide public health decisionmakers with timely estimates of the severity of community-wide influenza. One potential indicator is the number of influenza hospitalizations. In New… read more… and chief complaint. ED ILI visits were defined as any visit whose chief complaint indicated fever-flu or … -
Evaluation of Alerting Sparse-Data Streams of Population Healthcare-Seeking Data
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Objective This presentation discusses the problem of detecting small-scale events in biosurveillance data that are relatively sparse in the sense that the median count of monitored time series values is zero. Research goals are to understand… read more… streams were small-scale series of 1400 days of daily visit counts in 20 syndromic categories. The simulated data … -
Navy Disease Reporting System Case Validation through Use of HL7 and SADR/SIDR Databases: Chlamydia Trachomatis
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Reporting allows for the collection of statistics that show how often disease occurs, which helps researchers identify disease trends and track disease outbreaks. U.S. Navy has a modified list of reportable medical events to accommodate for… read more… only the electronic labo- ratory results and provider visit data. HL7 Yes No Yes No SADR Yes Yes No No Yes 89 89 … -
North Texas School Health Surveillance: First-Year Progress and Next Steps
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Recognizing the threat of pandemic influenza and new or emerging disease such as SARS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that schools work in partnership with their local health departments “to develop a surveillance… read more… information about DotNetNuke or to download the software, visit www.dotnetnuke.com. 5. Powell T, Tarrant County School … -
Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina
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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the early event detection system that serves public health users across North Carolina. One important data source for this system is North… read more… The PHEs filled out a one page paper form for each visit and faxed these forms to staff at DPH, who then … -
Burns Reported to the BioSense System During the Independence Day Holiday
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Each year, more than two-thirds of all fireworksrelated injuries occur during June 16-July 16 [1]. During the 2006 July 4th holiday weekend, thousands of people were treated in emergency departments (EDs) for fireworks-related injuries [2]. Over 50… read more… July 4th, 5th, or both days. Among these four areas, burn visit counts ranged from 24 to 36 per day and rates from …