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Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition
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In North Carolina, select hospital emergency departments have been submitting data since 2003 for use in syndromic surveillance. These data are collected, stored, and parsed into syndrome categories by the North Carolina… read more… its ability to capture the appropriate syndromic cases. Document … derived case definition terms from the consensus document text description of smallpox and modified these … -
Syndromic Surveillance for Detection of Increased Morbidity and Mortality by Influenza
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To evaluate whether a rise or shift in severe morbidity and mortality by influenza can be detected with syndromic surveillance.… by influenza can be detected with syndromic surveillance. Document … data using the CDC syn- drome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance. We plotted the counts of the hospital syndrome, … -
Multi-Sectored Approach to Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System
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In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more… areas: process and outcome, cost/benefit and technical. Document … by the Public Health Agency of Canada [1] with additional guidance pro- vided by the Centers for Disease Control and … -
North Texas School Health Surveillance: First-Year Progress and Next Steps
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Recognizing the threat of pandemic influenza and new or emerging disease such as SARS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that schools work in partnership with their local health departments “to develop a surveillance… read more… diseases often emerge first and spread rapidly.2 Document … report that is the basis for this presentation5 follows guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … -
Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina
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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the early event detection system that serves public health users across North Carolina. One important data source for this system is North… read more… Katrina evacuees’ hospital visits in North Carolina. Document … results of each report were exported into an electronic document, which was emailed to staff at the DPH. This report … -
Identifying Syndromic Fingerprints in Reason Fields in Emergency Department or Telehealth Records using N-grams for Similarity Analysis
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An N-gram is a sub-sequence of n items from a given sequence where n can be 1, 2,…, n and the items can be letters or words. N-gram models are widely used in statistical natural language processing [3]. In the syndromic surveillance context, N-grams… read more… that these fingerprints are valuable for classification. Document … Text categori- sation”, Proceedings of Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, Las Vegas, NV. … -
Minimizing False Alarms in Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes a method of avoiding false alerts in automated syndromic surveillance algorithms which monitor the temporal relationship between a particular monitored syndrome (the ìtargetî) in relationship to other reference healthcare data… read more… reference healthcare data streams (the ìcontextî). Document … surveillance up to now, will be applied to gain practical guidance toward this goal. REFERENCES [1] Burkom H, Alerting … -
Respiratory Syndrome in the Netherlands in Relation to Pathogen Activity
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Syndromic surveillance may be suited for detection of emerging respiratory disease elevations that could pass undiagnosed. The syndromes under surveillance should then retrospectively reflect known respiratory pathogen activity. To validate this for… read more… by the seasonal dynamics of common respiratory pathogens. Document … data using the CDC syndrome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance. Time series of respiratory pathogens (Respiratory …