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Early Detection of Influenza-like Illness: Developing a Multi-Variate Approach
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The 2003/04 influenza season included a more pathogenetic organism and had an earlier onset. There were noticeably more deaths in otherwise healthy children than in previous seasons. Following this season, States were asked by the Centers for… read more… chief complaints from hospital emergency department visits, school absentee reports, diagnostic laboratory reports, visits to physician’s offices, visits to Veterans Administration and Department of Defense … -
Seasonal Patterns of Gastrointestinal Illness
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Objective: To investigate seasonal patterns of gastrointestinal (GI) illness among children and adults.… 2001 to Oct 2005. Data were diagnoses for all hospital visits (ED, inpatient, observation). GI visits (N= 1,167,711) were selected by ICD-9 codes using … was significant. RESULTS In Figure 1, numbers of visits with a GI Dx are displayed as overlapping one-year … -
Seasonal Patterns of Respiratory Diseases: a Proxy for Influenza?
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One of the most important goals of disease surveillance is to identify the "what" and "when" of an epidemic. Influenza surveillance is made difficult by inconsistent laboratory testing, deficiencies in testing techniques, and coding… read more… 2001 to Oct 2005. Data were diagnoses for all hospital visits (ED, inpatient, observation). GI visits (N= 1,167,711) were selected by ICD-9 codes using … was significant. RESULTS In Figure 1, numbers of visits with a GI Dx are displayed as overlapping one-year … -
National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Syndrome Definitions Workgroup - Report
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This report summarizes a series of seven meetings of the Syndrome Definition Workgroup held in 2014 and 2015. Objective To review, validate, and modify syndromes and provide community input on a process to update or… read more… requested flexibility in how to categorize and display visits as syndromes. NSSS users stated that they would like … diagnosis, triage notes) that are referenced when visits are “binned” into a syndrome. There was a desire for the flexibility to view visits where a syndrome definition included terms from the … -
MBDS One Health Digital Disease Surveillance Application
Content Type: Case Study
The past decade has seen the rise of many new diseases, and the re-emergence of others which were thought to have been brought under control. This is the combined result of the expansion of global trade and travel, the increases in populations of… read more… Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS) COUNTRY: Thailand Email: moekooo2003@yahoo.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? … alert reporting - Updates information over SMS, over email, and on the surface of a map in a web browser - Links … -
The Impact of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees from Louisiana and Mississippi on Georgia Emergency Departments: Syndromic Surveillane and Disasters
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall just east of New Orleans, LA at 6:10AM CST and again at the LA/MS border at 10:00AM CST as a Category 3 hurricane, causing mass destruction along their coastlines. The devastation in LA and MS… read more… RESULTS There was a 7-fold increase in the rate of ED visits by LA and MS residents from the pre- to the post- … correlations were noted between the number of ED visits by individual zip codes and their racial, poverty, or … seen; however, a >2.5-fold increase in medication refill visits was observed (Table). Several spatial- and … -
An Adaptive Anomaly Detection Algorithm
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Ideal anomaly detection algorithms shoulddetect both sudden and gradual changes, while keeping the background false positive alert rate at a tolerable level. The algorithms should also be easy to use. Our objective was to develop an anomaly… read more… C2 or C3 alert. The test data were time series of daily visits from two emergency departments (ED) for two … with the usual 2.0 cut-off for two EDs. ORIGINAL GI DAILY VISITS, ~19 MONTHS, ED1 GI 4-DAY OUTBREAKS ROC COMPARISON … -
Do Women Really Complain More than Men? Looking at Gastrointestinal Chief Complaints in Boston
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The purpose of syndromic surveillance is the early identification of disease outbreaks. Classification of chief complaints into syndromes and the type of statistics used for aberration detection can affect outbreak detection sensitivity and… read more… and back pain. [1] METHODS We randomly selected 50,000 visits from 9 Boston adult emergency departments (ED) … Black, 30% White and 67% age 20-49 years. Of the 44,877 visits 4,483 chief complaints were classified as GISG (10%). … and specificity for GIC. (p=0.0032) The proportion of visits among women with GIC, Gi1, and Gi2 was 7.7%, 2.3%, …