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  • An Exploration of New Uses of Traditional Data within an Ecological Study: Air Quality Effects on Pediatric Asthma Exacerbation Analysis

    Content Type: Abstract

    Under a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the DC DOH established the Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (EPHTP) to monitor specific environmental and public health indicators and to investigate any… read more
    … 2004 and DC hospital pediatric emergency department (ED) visits for asthma exacerbations.    Objective The study … the relationship between air quality and pediatric ED visits for asthma among DC residents over a 3 year period. … air quality and pediatric emergency department (ED) visits for asthma among DC residents over a 3 year period. …
  • Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … for this system is North Carolina emergency department visits. ED data from hospitals across the state are … of monitoring hurricane Katrina evacuees’ hospital visits in North Carolina. Document … of monitoring hurricane Katrina evacuees’ hospital visits in North Carolina. BACKGROUND The North Carolina …
  • Fast and Flexible Outbreak Detection by Linear-Time Subset Scanning

    Content Type: Abstract

    The spatial scan statistic [1] detects significant spatial clusters of disease by maximizing a likelihood ratio statistic over a large set of spatial regions. Typical spatial scan approaches either constrain the search regions to… read more
    … to constrain our search by penalizing or excluding un- likely subsets (e.g. disconnected or highly irregular … spatial scans, with and without LTSS, on 281 days of ED visit data from 88 Allegheny County zip codes. Various scan …
  • A Global Landscape of Participatory Disease Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    Citizen engagement in public health is being transformed through systems that enable users to directly report on symptoms of disease via email and smartphone technology. Participatory systems encourage routine submission of syndromic data by the… read more
    … users to directly report on symptoms of disease via email and smartphone technology. Participatory systems … users to directly report on symptoms of disease via email and smartphone technology. Participatory systems …
  • Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance and Population-Based Health Monitoring in Los Angeles County

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Bioterrorism Surveillance Unit of the Los Angeles County (LAC) Department of Public Health, Acute Communicable Disease Control (ACDC) program analyzes Emergency Department (ED) data daily. Currently capturing over 40% of the ED… read more
    … (ED) data daily. Currently capturing over 40% of the ED visits in LAC, the system categorizes visits into syndrome groups and analyzes the data for … (ED) data daily. Currently capturing over 40% of the ED visits in LAC, the system categorizes visits into syndrome …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Shows Medical Surge in Dallas–Fort Worth during Hurricane Harvey, 2017

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on August 25, 2017, resulting in 88 fatalities and more than $125 billion in damages to infrastructure. In Houston, flooding created a toxic mix of chemicals, sewage, biohazards, and 8 million cubic yards of… read more
    … contributed to increases in emergency department (ED) visits in Houston and cities that received persons … scientists looked at spatial and temporal variation in ED visits to DFW hospitals attributable to the storm. This … Between August 25, 2017, and September 7, 2017, ED visits in the DFW area increased about 4% per day, totaling …
  • The evaluation of influenza surveillance data elements for the health information exchange minimum data set

    Content Type: Abstract

    The American Health Information Community Harmonized Use Case for the Biosurveillance minimum data set (MDS) was implemented to establish data exchange between regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and the New York State Department of… read more
    … for emergency department (ED), in-patient, and outpatient visits. Compare the characteristics of patients meeting the … New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA E-mail: hgc04@health.state.ny.us Objectives Evaluate the … for emergency department (ED), in-patient, and outpatient visits. Compare the characteristics of patients meeting the …
  • Identifying Categories of Over-the-Counter Products with Superior Outbreak Detection Performance

    Content Type: Abstract

    A significant research topic in biosurveillance is how to group individual events—such as single emergency department (ED) visits and sales of over-thecounter healthcare (OTC) products—into counts of “similar” events. For OTC products, the goal is… read more
    … events—such as single emergency department (ED) visits and sales of over-thecounter healthcare (OTC) … clusters OTC products based on how well they ‘explain’ ED visits for influenzalike illness (ILI) can find categories … events—such as single emer- gency department (ED) visits and sales of over-the- counter healthcare (OTC) …