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Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series #1: Rapid surveillance of overdose morbidity - Developing case definitions, building queries, and analyzing results
Content Type: Webinar
This is the first installment of the ISDS Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series, June - July, 2017. Click here for Part 2 of… read more… to distinguish overdoses from other drug-related ED visits � Withdrawal and detox � Abscesses or sores related … criteria � Facilities that are “emergency”; patient visit for “emergency” � Individuals ages 11 and older � First encounter visits for acute overdose (e.g., 7th character of ICD-10-CM … -
Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview
Content Type: Presentation Slides
These slides were presented at the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview Partner meeting, led by CDC and organized by ASTHO in March of 2019. Presenters Puja Seth, PhD – Lead, Epidemiology… read more… sources ▪ Two sources: – Near real-time syndromic data (visit information within 24-48 hours) – Lagged hospital … Q3 2018 (as of January 15, 2019) ▪ Total number of ED visits per quarter ▪ Stratified by state, sex, age group, … -
Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance (Pt 4): A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the New York City Implementation
Content Type: Webinar
Our final Meaningful Use Dialogue will provide insight into New York City’s use of ambulatory EHR records. Steve Di Lonardo and Dr. Winfred Wu plan to discuss the potential benefits, limitations and challenges of extracting data from ambulatory… read more… fever, cough, etc..) When are they documenting? (during visit or transcribed at a few days later?) Billing codes … -
Cold-Related Illness - CSTE
Content Type: Syndrome
Cold-Related Illness Query: Guidance for Implementing Cold-Related Illness Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice In winter, people are at risk… read more… and denotations of a frostbite history when the current visit is not frostbite related. For example, a record may … These exclusions affect a relatively small number of visits. For example, in one particularly cold month, there were 112 visits reported with the exclusions and 116 without; a … -
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… Allegheny County Health Department, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: tsui2@pitt.edu Objective This paper describes an … a 6-month time series graph of the percentage of total ED visits per day with ILI detected by the rule-based logic. … of the UPMC Health System. The average number of daily ED visits with ED reports between July and Dec. 2009 was 569. … -
Innovative Uses for ESSENCE to Improve Standard Communicable Disease Reporting Practices in Miami-Dade County
Content Type: Abstract
To illustrate how ESSENCE can been utilized to collaborate with healthcare practitioners in order to improve communicable disease reporting… SAS 9.1.3. RESULTS In 2007, there was a mean of 2,356 ED visits per day and a mean of 10.2 visits that had a queried … with information about the reportable disease list via email, phone, mail, and on-site hospital visits. Advances in Disease … -
One Health: an Education & Outreach Program for Abattoir Workers
Content Type: Webinar
Presented October 25, 2017. In regular contact with abattoir workers during inspections, USDA APHIS Georgia employees noticed very few employees using proper PPE, and observed risky slaughter and processing practices at both small and large… read more -
Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?
Content Type: Abstract
Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more… VALE M-183, 200 Meyran Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (e-mail: chapman@cbmi.pitt.edu). 1 Advances in Disease … of an outbreak (23). Near the end of a patient’s visit to a healthcare facility, detailed information about … approxi- mately 40,000 adult patients a year, and patient visit data have been stored in the Medical Archival System …