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Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality
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Health care processes consume increasing volumes of digital data. However, creating and leveraging high quality integrated health data is challenging because large-scale health data derives from systems where data is captured from varying workflows… read more -
Using Medications Sales from Retail Pharmacies for Syndromic Surveillance in Rural China
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Drug sales data as an early indicator in syndromic surveillance has attracted particular interest in recent years, however previous studies were mostly conducted in developed countries or areas. In China, many people (around 60%) choose self-… read more -
Using Search Volume for Surveillance of Medication Prescribing
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Investigators have used the volume of internet search queries to model disease incidence, especially influenza and general consumer behavior [1]. Our group has used search volume to model interest in FDA safety alerts and adverse drug event… read more -
Using Surveillance Data to Identify Risk Factors for Severe H1N1 in First Nations
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Research has shown that Canadian First Nation (FN) populations were disproportionately affected by the 2009 H1N1 influenza pan- demic. However, the mechanisms for the disproportionate outcomes are not well understood. Possibilities such as… read more -
Using Syndromic Emergency Department Data to Augment Oral Health Surveillance
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Using the chief complaint field from our established syndromic ED system, we developed definitions for potentially preventable oral health visits (OHV) and examined patterns in 2009-2011 data. Under the widest definition, OHV comprised about 1% of… read more -
Using the Flow of People in Cluster Detection and Inference
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The traditional SaTScan algorithm[1],[2] uses the euclidean dis- tance between centroids of the regions in a map to assemble a con- nected (in the sense that two connected regions share a physical border) sets of regions. According to the value of… read more -
Assessment of the use of ED Chief Complaint Data for monitoring Chronic Diseases
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Syndromic Surveillance (SS), traditionally applied to infectious diseases, is more recently being adapted to chronic disease prevention. Its usefulness rests on the large number of diverse individuals visiting emergency rooms with the possibility of… read more -
Impact of the NSSP’s transition to ESSENCE on chief complaint field-based syndromes
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In January 2017, the NSSP transitioned their BioSense analytical tools to Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The chief complaint field in BioSense 2.0 was a concatenation of the record's… read more