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  • Development of Syndrome Definitions for Acute Unintentional Drug and Heroin Overdose

    Content Type: Abstract

    Nationally, deaths due to opioid overdose have continually increased for the past 15 years . Deaths specifically related to heroin increased more than four-fold between 2002 and 2014. Hospital inpatient discharge data provide information on non… read more
    … include a significant lag in reporting time. Syndromic ED visit data provide near real-time identification of public … unspecified substances among emergency department (ED) visits in Virginia. 4 views Submitted by teresa.hamby@d… on … include a significant lag in reporting time. Syndromic ED visit data provide near real-time identification of public …
  • Development and Application of Syndromic Surveillance for Severe Weather Events Following Hurricane Sandy

    Content Type: Journal Article

    Following Hurricane Superstorm Sandy, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) developed indicators to enhance syndromic surveillance for extreme weather events in EpiCenter, an online system that collects and analyzes… read more
    … emergency department (ED) data and classifies each visit by indicator or syndrome. Tsai Stella Hamby Teresa Chu … emergency department (ED) data and classifies each visit by indicator or syndrome. …
  • Disproportionate Emergency Room Use as an Indicator of Community Health

    Content Type: Abstract

    Community health assessments are a foundation of public health practice and a prerequisite to achieving public health accreditation. Best practice dictates that CHAs must incorporate qualitative and quantitative data and utilize a number of… read more
    … Syndromic surveillance messages, typically emergency room visit records, contain sub-county level data on patient … entities will become standard. Analysis of emergency room visit data, either in aggregate or by specific syndromes, … Syndromic surveillance messages, typically emergency room visit records, contain sub-county level data on patient …
  • Administrative and syndromic surveillance data can enhance public health surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Healthcare data, including emergency department (ED) and outpatient health visit data, are potentially useful to the public health community for multiple purposes, including programmatic and surveillance activities. These data are collected through… read more
    … including emergency department (ED) and outpatient health visit data, are potentially useful to the public health … in NSSP, and the estimated nationalp ercentage of ED visits covered by the NSSP BioSense platform is 54%. NSSP’s … ESSENCE, also includes additional types of healthcare visit (e.g., urgent care) data. Although NSSP is designed to …
  • Documenting the Missed Opportunity Period for Influenza Vaccination in Office-based Settings

    Content Type: Abstract

    Missed opportunities for influenza vaccination in office-based settings occur when patients (who are inclined to accept influenza vaccination if a provider recommends it) remain unvaccinated after a fall/winter healthcare visit. Healthcare providers… read more
    … it) remain unvaccinated after a fall/winter healthcare visit. Healthcare providers can be very influential in … advantage of opportunities to vaccinate during medical visits. This suggests that provider vaccination behavior, if … it) remain unvaccinated after a fall/winter healthcare visit. Healthcare providers can be very influential in …
  • Analysis of Daily Enhanced Syndromic Surveillance in Hillsborough County, FL, 2015

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County (FDOH- Hillsborough) conducts enhanced syndromic surveillance on a daily basis. The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics in Florida (ESSENCE-FL… read more
    … primary ESSENCE-FL users in each county containing all visits which have been detected by the state’s visits of interest (VOI) query. The email contains all … chief complaint and discharge diagnosis (CCDD) field of a visit for keywords related to reportable diseases and …
  • Utility of Natural Language Processing for Clinical Quality Measures Reporting

    Content Type: Abstract

    Clinical quality measures (CQMs) are tools that help measure and track the quality of health care services. Measuring and reporting CQMs helps to ensure that our health care system is delivering effective, safe, efficient, patient-centered,… read more
    … percentage of patients aged 6 months and older seen for a visit between October 1 and March 31 who received (or … percentage of patients aged 6 months and older seen for a visit between October 1 and March 31 who received (or …
  • Analysis of Healthcare Seeking Behavior

    Content Type: Abstract

    Healthcare seeking behavior is important to understand when interpreting public health surveillance data, planning for healthcare utilization, or attempting to estimate or model consequences of an adverse event, such as widespread water… read more
    … Control Center (PCC) calls and Emergency Department (ED) visit records. These analyses were conducted in order to … Control Center (PCC) calls and Emergency Department (ED) visit records. These analyses were conducted in order to …