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Use of Surveillance Data to Measure the Impact of Viral Infections among Young Children
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Respiratory viruses cause substantial morbidity and costly resource utilization among young children, especially during the winter months. Accurate estimates of the impact of these viruses are important in guiding prevention efforts… read more… admission 0.9 (0.4, 1.9) 11.8 (9.3, 14.9) Primary care visit 4.8 (3.7, 6.3) 23.2 (20.1, 26.6) Antibiotic use 3.1 … -
Use of Syndromic Surveillance during a South Florida Mass Migration Exercise, Broward County
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On March 7th and 8th of 2007 authorities from federal, state, county, and municipal jurisdictions/agencies having mass migration response responsibilities (as per the Department of Homeland Security Operation Vigilant Sentry, as well as… read more… resident and hospital zip code, hospital name, time of visit, and chief complaint text. If clustering of these … -
Using Syndromic Surveillance Data for Enhanced Case-Capture of Conditions of Public Health Interest
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Syndromic surveillance can be a useful tool for the early recognition of outbreaks and trends in emergency department (ED) data. In addition, as a more timely data source than traditional disease reporting, syndromic data may also be… read more… from 8 hospitals. These data include: date and time of visit, age, zip code, chief complaint, mode of arrival, and … -
Telephone Triage Data for Detection of Influenza-like Illness
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National surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus variants and to monitor influenza-related morbidity and mortality. Nurse telephone triage (“call”) data may serve as a useful complement to… read more… [2] Henry JV, Magruder S, Snyder M. Comparison of office visit and nurse advice hotline data for syndromic … -
The Tradeoffs Driving Policy and Research Decisions in Biosurveillance
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Every public health monitoring operation faces important decisions in its design phase. These include information sources to be used, the aggregation of data in space and time, the filtering of data records for required… read more… alerting methods, we used 3 years of outpatient clinic visit data in which records were classified by syndrome and … -
Nurse Call Data for Detection of Influenza-Like Illness
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Influenza affects millions of people and causes about 36,000 deaths in the United States each winter. Pandemics of influenza emerge at irregular intervals. National influenza surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus… read more… ] Henry JV, Magruder S, Snyder M. Comparison of office visit d nurse advice hotline data for syndromic … -
Sensibility and Specificity of Syndromic System for Influenza Based on General Practitioners Network in Gironde, France
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To determine sensitivity and specificity of syndromic surveillance of influenza based on data from SOS Medecins, a healthcare network of emergency general practitioners (GP) in Bordeaux, France.… (http://www.sosmedecins- france.fr/en/default.htm). Last visit on 10/07/2007. [3] Flahault A, Boussard E, Vibert JF, … -
Emergency Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) for Public Health in Canada
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In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more… captured in real-time: chief complaint, data/time of visit, hospital name, age, gender and 5- digit postal code …