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  • Animal bite surveillance using NC DETECT emergency department visit data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Animal bites may have potentially devastating consequences, including physical and emotional trauma, infection, rabies exposure, hospitalization, and, rarely, death. NC law requires animal bites be reported to local health directors. However,… read more
    … Between 2008 and 2010, 110 to 113 EDs were submitting visit data to NC DETECT. Several animal bite-related on-line reports are available and provide aggregate and visit-level analyses customized to users' respective jurisdictions. The NC DETECT ED visit database currently provides the most comprehensive and …
  • Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more
    … departments for their own surveillance needs. Originally, sites were asked to send whatever syndrome definition they … to send their broader, higher count syndrome. In 2008, sites were asked to send both a broad syndrome, and a narrow … illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot DR …
  • An automated influenza-like-illness reporting system using freetext emergency department reports

    Content Type: Abstract

    Current methods for influenza surveillance include laboratory confirmed case reporting, sentinel physician reporting of Influenza-Like-Illness (ILI) and chief-complaint monitoring from emergency departments (EDs). The current… read more
    … to incomplete, delayed reporting. Chief complaint (CC) based surveillance is limited in that a patient’s … the cost, delays, incompleteness and low specificity (for CC) in current methods of influenza surveillance is … to incomplete, delayed reporting. Chief complaint (CC) based surveillance is limited in that a patient’s chief …
  • Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor

    Content Type: Abstract

    With increased penetration of clinical information system products and increased interest in clinical data exchange, a variety of clinician’s notes are becoming available for surveillance. Chief complaints have been studied extensively, and… read more
    … notes have received attention, but narrative clinic visit notes have gotten little attention.   Objective To … to detect fever, and to assess the feasibility of parsing visit notes for syndromic surveillance. Document … Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor George …
  • Heat-related Illness - CSTE Heat Workgroup

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This definition is based the following document created by the CSTE Heat Workgroup: Heat-related Illness Syndrome Query: A guidance Document for Implementing Heat-related Illness Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice (attached). The query… read more
    … and discharge diagnosis. It is also available in the CC and DD category in NSSP ESSENCE. (992 OR (E900 ANDNOT … OR EXHAUST OR EXPOS OR FATIGUE OR CRAMP OR STRESS OR IN CAR OR OUTSIDE OR PROSTRATION) ) ) ANDNOT ( ALLERG OR … OR HEATH OR HEATTH OR HITTING HEAT OR PALPITATION OR CHEAT OR HEATER OR HEATHER OR HEATING OR HOTEL OR LITHOTR OR …
  • A Comparison of Chief Complaints and Emergency Department Reports for Identifying Patients with Acute Lower Respiratory Syndrome

    Content Type: Abstract

    Automated syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on free-text chief complaints. Chief complaints (CC) demonstrate low to moderate sensitivity in identifying syndromic cases. Emergency Department (ED)… read more
    … based on free-text chief complaints. Chief complaints (CC) demonstrate low to moderate sensitivity in identifying … based on free-text chief complaints. Chief complaints (CC) demonstrate low to moderate sensitivity in identify- ing … (lower three diamonds). ED Classifi- cation dominated CC Classification by a physician (), CoCo ( ), and MPLUS ( …
  • Chemical Spill in Kansas: Importance of Sharing Information Across Sites

    Content Type: Success Stories

    On October 21, 2016, at 8:02 am, a distilling plant in Kansas accidentally mixed sulfuric acid and sodium hypochloride, releasing a plume of chlorine gas. The respiratory effects of breathing chlorine gas can be felt almost immediately and can be… read more
    … experienced respiratory problems and sought medical care. One employee was taken to Hospital A, a participant in … analyzing data from Hospital A. On the day of the spill, visits increased nearly four-fold, far exceeding the … data knew the demographics and recognized anomalies in visit counts. As patient counts increased, epidemiologists …
  • Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series #3: Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition for Monitoring Opioid Related ED visits and Drug Overdose Surveillance Using Death Record, Poison Control, and ED Data

    Content Type: Webinar

    This is the third installment of the ISDS Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series, held on July 27, 2017. Click here for Part 1 of the Opioid… read more
    … of the reported Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis (CC and DD) in SyS ED data.  In addition, the consistency of … Case Definition for Monitoring Opioid Related ED visits in the Colorado North Central Region (CO-NCR), State … level information by using CCDD • Assess consistency of CC and DD reporting in SyS • Cross validation between …