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  • Making the Best Use of Textual ED Data for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    In this webinar Dr. Travers will review two tools developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which aid in processing textual CC’s and triage notes in support of syndromic surveillance. Textual data from emergency departments… read more
    … Carolina at Chapel Hill, which aid in processing textual CC’s and triage notes in support of syndromic … can still be problematic. Chief complaints from ED visits are a common data source for syndromic surveillance, … but there is still no standard for documenting CC. EDs still customize their own CC pick lists, and …
  • Detection of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Chief Complaint Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Following an Oct 12-13, 2006 snowstorm, almost 400,000 homes in western New York lost power, some for up to 12 days. News reports said that emergency rooms saw many patients with CO exposure; 3 deaths were attributed to CO poisoning. As part of NYS… read more
    … system, electronic ED records with a free-text CC field listing the symptoms reported by the patient are sent to NYS DOH daily. Each CC is searched for text strings indicating complaints in one … of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning from chief complaints (CC) in hospital emergency department (ED) records submitted …
  • Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) receives daily emergency department (ED) data from 33 (29%) of the 114 EDs in North Carolina. These data are available via a Web-based portal and the Early… read more
    … definitions of the CDC and search the chief complaint (CC) and, when available, triage note (TN) and initial … a TN, which is a brief text passage that describes the CC in more detail. Most research on the utility of ED data for SS has focused on the use of CC. The goal of this study was to determine the sensitivity, …
  • ICD9 as a Surrogate for Chart Review in the Validation of a Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    The existing New York State Department of Health emergency department syndromic surveillance system has used patient’s chief complaint (CC) for assigning to six syndrome categories (Respiratory, Fever, Gastrointestinal, Neurological, Rash, Asthma… read more
    … surveillance system has used patient’s chief complaint (CC) for assigning to six syndrome categories (Respiratory, … Rash, Asthma). The sensitivity and specificity of the CC computer algorithms that assign CC to syndrome categories … process and allow us to survey a much larger sample of visits. Document …
  • Syndromic Surveillance and Climate Change, a Possible Use?

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper assesses the possible interest of using of a syndromic surveillance system based on emergency departments (ED) and crude mortality for monitoring health effects of climate changes (CC).
    … for monitoring health effects of climate changes (CC). Document … for monitoring health effects of climate changes (CC). BACKGROUND The 2003 heat wave in France (15,000 extra … Based on a review of literature, main health effects of CC were identified: asthma, heat related illness, weather …
  • A comparison of syndromic surveillance chief complaint data and discharge data in a pediatric hospital system during 2009 H1N1

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Syndromic Surveillance Program (SSP) of the Acute Disease Epidemiology Section of the Georgia Division of Public Health, provides electronic influenza- like- illness (ILI) data to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention… read more
    … hospital system identified when the percentage of daily visits for ILI had substantively increased. The data includes patient chief complaint (CC) data from emergency department visits for two facilities … was provided to SSP retrospectively to compare with the CC data routinely collected and analyzed. The data was …
  • A Comparison between Syndromic Surveillance 911/EMS and Emergency Department Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    To examine data from 911/Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and determine whether these data provide a useful addition to syndromic surveillance (SS) when used with emergency department (ED) chief complaint (CC) data.
    … when used with emergency department (ED) chief complaint (CC) data. Document … when used with emergency department (ED) chief complaint (CC) data. BACKGROUND Evaluation of data sources is a key … and analyze data from 911/EMS calls and CCs from ED visits. We focused on the “neurologic syndrome” because this …
  • Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI Syndrome

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense project has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub-syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. This has the potential to… read more
    … BioSense project has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub-syndrome classifiers for the … value of New York State hospital emergency department CC classifiers for patients < 60 months of age and > 60 … York State hospital emergency department chief complaint (CC) classifiers for patients < 60 months of age and > 60 …