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Early Detection of Adverse Drug Events Using The Full Text of Letters to the Editor
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Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a significant source of morbidity and mortality. The majority of post-marketing surveillance for ADEs is passive. Information regarding ADEs is reported to the medical community in peer-reviewed journals. However, in… read more -
Adverse Drug Events: Insights From Google Search Volume
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Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. However, post-marketing surveillance systems are passive and reporting is generally not mandated. Thus, many ADEs go unreported, and it is difficult to estimate and/or… read more -
Using a Syndromic Approach to Monitor Alcohol-Related Visits of College-Aged Emergency Department Patients
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According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) surveillance of drug-related ED visits, underage (B21 years) alcohol-alone visit rates have been increasing since 2004 to 2009 (1… read more -
Changes in Alcohol-Related Travel Behavior due to an Under 21 Ordinance
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Alcohol abuse is one of the major leading causes of preventable mortality in the United States. Binge drinking or excessive alcohol consumption, categorized as a pattern of drinking that brings a person's blood alcohol concentration to 0.08, has… read more -
Animal bite surveillance using NC DETECT emergency department visit data
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Animal bites may have potentially devastating consequences, including physical and emotional trauma, infection, rabies exposure, hospitalization, and, rarely, death. NC law requires animal bites be reported to local health directors. However,… read more -
Ten Years After Amerithrax: Have Improvements to Our Bioterrorism and Influenza Surveillance Networks Enhanced Our Preparedness?
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The use of syndromic surveillance systems by state and local health departments for the detection of bioterrorist events and emerging infections has greatly increased since 2001. While these systems have proven useful for tracking influenza and… read more -
Defining emergency department asthma visits for public health surveillance
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Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of asthma control efforts. When using limited clinical ED datasets for secondary purposes such… read more -
An Improved EWMA-Based Method for Outbreak Detection in Multiple Regions
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Emerging disease clusters must be detected in a timely manner so that necessary remedial action can be taken to prevent the spread of an outbreak. The Exponentially Weighted Moving Average method (EWMA) is a particularly popular method, and has been… read more