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  • Detection of Walkerton Gastroenteritis Outbreak Using Syndromic Surveillance of Emergency Room Records

    Content Type: Abstract

    In May 2000 accidental contamination of the water supply led to an outbreak of severe gastroenteritis in Walkerton Ontario, Canada. Of 1346 cases associated with exposure to Walkerton water, 65 were admitted to hospital, 27 developed Hemolytic-… read more
    … using their own specialized algorithms. RESULTS ER visits associated with the outbreak were highly concentrated … is it s pe r da y Walkerton Site Only Exclude “Other” All Visits Exclude “Other”GI only All Visits 450 470 490 510 530 …
  • Geographic Categorization Methods Used in BioSense

    Content Type: Abstract

    BioSense is a CDC initiative to promote situational awareness through summarizing, analyzing, and presenting health related event information. Among the data sources collected and analyzed through the BioSense application are the Department of… read more
    … facility based on the alternate stan- dard deviation. Visits with a mileage less than or equal to the maximum distance cutoff were catego- rized as local visits, whereas visits with a mileage greater than the …
  • Training Session: Mapping Tool between two code sets: ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS

    Content Type: Webinar

    Join ISDS on June 3rd for an instructional webinar on ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS mapping tools, including the newly released MapIt tool. This tool, which was developed by AHRQ and CDC, is an automated mapping tool that utilizes General Equivalence… read more
    … 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348 E-mail: cdcinfo@cdc.gov Web: www.cdc.gov The findings and … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ques<ons?   Email:    ICD-­‐10Transi<on@cdc.gov   U.S.  Department  of …   Number  of  People   ISDS  Sent  Announcement  via  E-­‐mail   2107   Opened  Announcement   529  (26.4%)   Clicked …
  • North Dakota Syndromic Surveillance Program Overview: Onboarding

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    From the BioSense 2.0 Onboarding Workgroup Meeting, March 4, 2015 Presenter Jill K Baber, MPH Influenza and Syndromic Surveillance Coordinator North Dakota Department of Health Division of Disease Control read more
    … for Facilities Registration prompts both a web-based and email confirmation for the registrant. Best practice: Automation Registration of Intent Email Alert for Health Department •  The registration form … to SAS) ▫  Feedback to primary contact from ROI via email ▫  Typically, problems here ▫  Usually the most time …
  • The Use of BioSense Data for Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    The BioSense system currently receives real-time data from more than 370 hospitals, as well as national daily batched data from over 1100 Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs medical facilities. BioSense maps chief… read more
    … mapped to: 1) the same indicator (e.g., whether patient visits having a chief complaint of diarrhea also had a final … alone were completed on 343 hospitals while analyses on visits requiring both an ED CCs and final diagnoses were … average rate for the GI syndrome was 140 per 1000 visits (range: 115-170 among facilities) for ED CC and 120 …
  • ICD-10 Transition Overview

    Content Type: Webinar

    The U.S. transition to International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD-10-CM/PCS) on October 1, 2014 will have significant impact on public health entities. CDC's ICD-10 Transition Workgroup is offering a training session that will… read more
    … 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348 E-mail: cdcinfo@cdc.gov Web: www.cdc.gov The findings and … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Questions? Email: ICD-10Transition@cdc.gov U.S. Department of Health …
  • Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … zoster were not included. From the 813,536 ED visits in the database for the calendar year 2004, all visits with the ICD-9-CM code of 052.0-052.9 (CP) and all visits meeting the syndrome definition for FRI were …
  • Review of the ISDS Distributed Surveillance Taskforce for Real-time Influenza Burden Tracking & Evaluation (DiSTRIBuTE) Project 2007/08 Influenza Season Proof-of-concept Phase

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes the initiation, development and proof-of-concept phase of the ISDS DiSTRIBuTE influenza morbidity surveillance project [1].
    … depict respiratory, fever and influenza-like syndrome ED visits by jurisdiction as percent of total. 1/ 21 /2 00 6 2/ … Surface plots depict relative increase in ED syndrome visits as observed / baseline by jurisdiction and age. … The participants reported aggregate daily counts of ED visits by age group (<2, 2-4, 5-17, 18-44, 45-64 and 65+ …