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  • Mortality Associated with Heat Wave of 2010 and Ahmedabad Heat Action Plan

    Content Type: Webinar

    Ahmedabad, India was hit by a heat wave marked by record-breaking maximum temperatures in May 2010. This heat wave resulted in an excess of 1,344 deaths relative to May 2009 and May 2011-a 43% increase in mortality. Out of concern for future heat… read more
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  • Evaluating the utility of school absenteeism during the 2009–2010 influenza season in Los Angeles County

    Content Type: Abstract

    It has been postulated that school absenteeism, a non-traditional surveillance data source, may allow for early detection of disease outbreaks, particularly among school-aged children who may not seek emergency medical attention… read more
    … cited. Figure 1 Percent School Absenteeism and ILI ED visits by School Age Groups in Los Angeles County. Emerging … influenza-like illness emergency depart- ment (ILI ED) visits by ages 5–17 and (2) over-the-counter cough/cold … schools (p =0.06). Figure 1 shows the number of ILI ED visits, which peaked in early November for both elementary/ …
  • Evaluating University syndromic surveillance systems during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance has been widely adopted as a real-time monitoring tool in early response to disease outbreaks. In order to provide real-time information on the impact of 2009 H1N1 during the Fall 2009 semester, Georgetown … read more
    … and 2George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA E-mail: yz62@georgetown.edu Objective To describe the 2009 … illness (ILI) cases reported to medical staff: ED visits (GU and GWU Hospital emergency room visits records for patients aged 17–24 years with ILI), SHC …
  • The use of patient temperature data for biosurveillance in the emergency department

    Content Type: Abstract

    Biosurveillance systems commonly use emergency department (ED) patient chief complaint data (CC) for surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI). Daily volumes are tracked using a computerized patient CC classifier for fever (CC… read more
    … Residency in Emergency Medicine, Morristown, NJ, USA E-mail: johnalle@verizon.net Introduction Biosurveillance … fever CC T>100 Combined Figure 1 14-day moving average of visits for fever CC, T4100 and combined fever CC and T4100 … Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 4 number of visits that were identified by adding T4100 to CC Fever. …
  • Applying classification and anomaly detection techniques to real-world data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Real-world public health data often provide numerous challenges. There may be a limited amount of background data, data dropouts, noise, and human error. The data from an emergency department (ED) in Urbana, IL includes a … read more
    … week- ends, and also adjust for the total number of ED visits on a particular day. For comparison, we grouped the … weekends and weekdays, and adjusted for total number of visits. Results For the Flu-Like Illness Syndrome, the … from weekday data and adjusted for the total number of ED visits was the most sensitive, generating alerts on 19 days …
  • Improving Rabies Surveillance Using Syndromic Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    In order to assess the use of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis in Indiana, the Communicable Disease Reporting Rule, adopted October 11, 2000, requires the reporting of rabies PEP administration. Indiana is a “home rule” state; that is to say, local… read more
    … query feature to search for rabies related patient visits. However, a more automated method was desired that … file was developed to execute a SQL query script and email the results in html format. After some … The veterinary epidemiologist receives an auto- generated email each Monday morning, indicating a new data report is …
  • Using Syndromic Surveillance Data to Identify Emerging Trends in Designer Drug Use

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance of ED and PCC data has been widely used for the detection, tracking monitoring and monitoring of health events (e.g. bioterrorism, , disease outbreaks, environmental exposures) over the past decade. In recent years, these data… read more
    … widely, a specific classifier was created to define ED visits related to bath salts. This classifier included many … use for bath salts. Due to small daily counts of both ED visits and PCC exposure calls, the data were totaled by … August 19, 2011. *Alise Brown E-mail: alise.brown@odh.ohio.gov (page number not for citation …
  • Effect of expanded recommendations for pediatric seasonal influenza vaccination: an international comparison

    Content Type: Abstract

    Seasonal influenza epidemics are responsible for over 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States per year, and 39,000 of them are in children. In the United States, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guides… read more
    … to make an international comparison of rates of ED visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) following the United … the post-policy change response of ILI-related ED visits to Children’s Hospital Boston, using Montreal … We observed a 34% decline in the rate of ILI-related ED visits among two- to four-year-olds for Children’s Hospital …