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  • Near Real-Time Monitoring of Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance Data During the 2013 Super Bowl and Mardi Gras Events in New Orleans, LA

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    The Louisiana Office of Public Health (OPH) conducts emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance using the Louisiana Early Event Detection System (LEEDS). LEEDS automatically processes electronic chief complaint and diagnosis data to identify… read more
    … chief complaint and diagnosis data to identify ED visits indicative of specific syndromes. The Infectious … chief complaint and diagnosis data to identify ED visits indicative of specific syndromes. The Infectious …
  • Surveilling Non-Opioid Substance Use: Utilizing Multiple Data Sources in Marion County, Indiana

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    Cocaine, methamphetamine, and spice are addictive, non-opioid substances that negatively impact a person's health through direct and indirect means. Direct health concerns of non-opioid substance use include anxiety, paranoia, seizure, heart attack… read more
    … methamphetamine, and spice related emergency department visits as well as cocaine- and methamphetamine-related death … methamphetamine, and spice related emergency department visits as well as cocaine- and methamphetamine-related death …
  • Syndrome definitions for drug overdose: How far down the rabbit hole do we go?

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    State and local jurisdictions have been exploring the use of SyS data to monitor suspected drug overdose outbreaks in their communities. With the increasing awareness and use of SyS systems, staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention… read more
    … could use to better capture suspected drug overdose visits. In 2017, CDC released their first two queries on … could use to better capture suspected drug overdose visits. In 2017, CDC released their first two queries on …
  • Trends in Injection Opioid Use and Bloodborne Pathogen Related Diseases in New Jersey

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    When the opioid epidemic began in the early 1990s, pills such as oxycodone were the primary means of abuse. Beginning in 2010, injection use of, first, heroin and then synthetic opioids dramatically increased, which led the number of overdose deaths… read more
    … to test the hypothesis that emergency department (ED) visits for opioid use could be used as a predictor of BBP … to test the hypothesis that emergency department (ED) visits for opioid use could be used as a predictor of BBP …
  • Using ESSENCE to Meet Local Needs for Mental Health Data: Query & Results

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    Mental health is a common and costly concern; it is estimated that nearly 20 percent of adults in the United States live with a mental illness [1] and that more money is spent on mental illness than any other medical condition [2]. One spillover… read more
    … (H-CUP) found a 55% increase in emergency department visits for depression, anxiety, and stress reactions between … (H-CUP) found a 55% increase in emergency department visits for depression, anxiety, and stress reactions between …
  • Identifying Clusters of Rare and Novel Words in Emergency Department Chief Complaints

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    A goal of biosurveillance is to identify incidents that require a public health response. The challenge is creating specific definitions of such incidents so they can be detected. In syndromic surveillance, this is accomplished by classifying… read more
    … data into categories, and then looking for increases in visits related to those categories. This approach can only … data into categories, and then looking for increases in visits related to those categories. This approach can only …
  • Using Syndromic Surveillance and Climatic Data to Detect High Intensity HFMD Seasons

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    Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a highly infectious disease common among early childhood populations caused by human enteroviruses (Enterovirus genus).1 The enteroviruses responsible for HFMD generally cause mild illness among children in the… read more
    … in emergency department (ED) and urgent care center (UCC) visits for hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) among … in emergency department (ED) and urgent care center (UCC) visits for hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) among …
  • A Probabilistic Case-finding Algorithm for Chronic Disease Surveillance

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    There is a clear need for improved surveillance of chronic diseases to guide public health practice and policy. Chronic disease surveillance has tended to use administrative data, due to the need to link encounters for an individual over time and to… read more
    … a patient to have one hospitalization or two physician visits within two years with a diagnostic code for DM. While … a patient to have one hospitalization or two physician visits within two years with a diagnostic code for DM. While …