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Variation of Chief Complaint-Based Respiratory Symptom Data in One Hospital's Nurse Advice Call Center and Emergency Department
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The objective of this report is to describe the variation of symptoms being detected as respiratory or influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome using nurse advice call center (NACC) data and emergency department (ED) chief complaint data compared to… read more -
Visits with Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections Reported to the BioSense System, 2006-2007
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Biosurveillance systems typically receive free- text chief complaint and coded diagnosis data, however this data has limited specificity for notifiable disease surveillance. The Biosense System receives chief complaint and/or diagnosis data from… read more -
What Can Enhanced Influenza Surveillance Teach Us About Syndromic Surveillance?
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Currently Scotland has a number of influenza surveillance schemes, including âflu-spotterâ practices, and enhanced surveillance general practices that submit clinical samples for virological testing (SERVIS practices). This information feeds… read more -
Characterizing Fentanyl-Associated Mortality using the Literal Causes of Death
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In October 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released health advisory #384 to inform people about increases in fentanyl fatalities. Florida’s statewide syndromic surveillance system, Electronic Surveillance System for the… read more -
An Examination of Syndromic Surveillance for Early Detection of Nosocomial Outbreaks
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Objective So as to be able to detect nosocomial outbreaks at an early stage, we examine the construction of a syndromic surveillance system for inpatients who have fever, respiratory symptoms, diarrhea, vomiting or rash and… read more -
An Empirical Comparison of Spatial Scan Statistics for Outbreak Detection
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Expectation-based scan statistics extend the traditional spatial scan statistic approach by using historical data to infer the expected counts for each spatial location, then detecting regions with higher than expected counts. Here we consider five… read more -
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Sentinel Sample Size in Syndromic Surveillance Using a Space-Time Permutation Method
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There is limited closed-form statistical theory to indicate how well the prospective space-time permutation scan statistic will perform in the detection of localized excess illness activity. Instead, detection methods can be applied to simulated… read more -
An Enterprise Information Integration (EII) Approach for a Syndromic Surveillance System
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A comprehensive definition of a syndrome is composed of direct (911 calls, emergency departments, primary care providers, sensor, veterinary, agricultural and animal data) and indirect evidence (data from schools, drug stores, weather etc.).… read more