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  • Processing of Novel Electronic Health Data to Support Public Health Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Accurately gauging the health status of a population during an event of public health significance (e.g. hurricanes, H1N1 2009 pandemic) in support of emergency response and situation awareness efforts can be a challenge for established public… read more
    … health information systems that previously had been un-vetted as public health information sources. These … health information systems that previously had been un-vetted as public health information sources. These …
  • Using Change Point Detection for Monitoring the Quality of Aggregate Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Data consisting of counts or indicators aggregated from multiple sources pose particular problems for data quality monitoring when the users of the aggregate data are blind to the individual sources. This arises when agencies wish to share data but… read more
    … jurisdiction, and for which detailed information on the un-aggregated ‘raw’ data was unavailable. Previous work (2) … jurisdiction, and for which detailed information on the un-aggregated ‘raw’ data was unavailable. Previous work (2) …
  • Fact Sheet: Declared States of Emergency - Opioid Crisis

    Content Type: References

    High rates of morbidity and mortality among Americans related to opioid use constitute a public health epidemic, leading multiple jurisdictions to declare formal states of emergency or public health emergency. Declaring a state of emergency grants… read more
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  • A Biosurveillance-driven Home Score to Guide Strep Pharyngitis Treatment

    Content Type: Abstract

    GAS pharyngitis affects hundreds of millions of individuals globally each year, and over 12 million seek care in the United States annually for sore throat. Clinicians cannot differentiate GAS from other causes of acute pharyngitis based on the… read more
    … identify very-low risk patients prior to an ambulatory visit could reduce low-yield, unnecessary visits for a most common outpatient condition. We recently … A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis before a health care visit based only on history and real-time local …
  • Comparing and Contrasting Two ESSENCE Syndrome Definition Query Methods

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Kansas Syndromic Surveillance Program (KSSP) utilizes the ESSENCE v.1.20 program provided by the National Syndromic Surveillance Program to view and analyze Kansas Emergency Department (ED) data. Methods that allow an ESSENCE user to query both… read more
    … consists of the last non-null value for that patient visit ID and the chief complaint parsed is the first non-null chief complaint value for that patient visit ID that is parsed by the ESSENCE platform. For this … of all chief complaint values related to a singular ED visit, and Discharge Diagnosis History is the same concept, …
  • A Survey of Data Recording Procedures at New York City Emergency Departments

    Content Type: Abstract

    Data is collected daily by the DOHMH from 49 of the 52 NYC EDs, representing approximately 95% of all ED visits in NYC. Variability in data fields between and within EDs has been noticed for some time. Differences in chief complaint (CC)… read more
    … the 52 NYC EDs, representing approximately 95% of all ED visits in NYC. Variability in data fields between and within … on the DOHMH’s ability to consistently categorize ED visits into syndrome groupings, which may alter how … hospital based emergency department (ED) survey and site visit project conducted by the New York City (NYC) …
  • Shelter Health Surveillance

    Content Type: Success Stories

    During the 2017 Houston floods Lauren Leining worked with the the American Red Cross to visit each disaster victim in a shelter to do bed evaluations, but learned it was a very common thing for people to refuse treatment for a variety of… read more
    … Lauren Leining worked with the the American Red Cross to visit each disaster victim in a shelter to do bed … Lauren Leining worked with the the American Red Cross to visit each disaster victim in a shelter to do bed …
  • Opioid Misuse in Missouri: Analyzing Emergency Department Use in Urban/Rural Areas

    Content Type: Abstract

    Like many other states in the U.S., Missouri has experienced large increases in opioid abuse resulting in hundreds dying each year and thousands of ED visits due to overdose. Missouri has two major urban areas, St. Louis and Kansas City and a few… read more
    … resulting in hundreds dying each year and thousands of ED visits due to overdose. Missouri has two major urban areas, … centers throughout the state. PAS includes data from ED visits including information on diagnoses, patient demographics, and other information about the visit. MODHSS also participates in the Enhanced State …