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  • Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection - Geocodes for Urban to Rural Mixed Environments: SSIC-Geo

    Content Type: Abstract

    The University of Washington has been working since 2000 with partners in Washington State to advance bioterrorism (BT) detection and preparedness. This project collects data on patients presenting with influenza-like … read more
    … (SSIC) Peninsula system has collected 58,542 hospital visits of interest (potentially of infectious nature), and a baseline of 123,285 (total visits) records total. Of these visits of interest, 28,624 (57%) were successfully geocoded. …
  • BioSense Real-Time Data Initiative: Improving Emergency Preparedness- Monitoring Injury Sub-Syndromes

    Content Type: Abstract

    Analysis of the BioSense data facilitates the identification, tracking, and management of emergent and routine health events, including potential bioterrorism events, injury related incidents and rapidly spreading naturally occurring events (1).… read more
    … ings, sprains & strains). RESULTS A total of 8,342,336 visits were recorded in the ED Chief Complaint category into … system from January 2, 2006 to July 18, 2007. Of all visits; the greatest proportion binned to the Respiratory … the most frequent were injury NOS (6.7% of total visits), open wounds (3.4%), falls (3.1%), and MVC (2.2%). …
  • Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP): Automated Detection and Reporting of Statutory Notifiable Diseases to Public Health Authorities

    Content Type: Abstract

    Clinician initiated reporting of notifiable conditions is often delayed, incomplete, and lacking in detail. We report on the deployment of Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP), a system we have created to automatically screen… read more
    … and Prevention, 133 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 (e-mail: mklompas@partners.org) 1 Advances in Disease … initiative and is still largely done manually by mail, fax, or telephone. Some jurisdic- tions have … the denominator of their choice (e.g., total ambu- latory visits, total number of patients tested for the condition, …
  • Oregon Short Surveillance Report Template

    Content Type: Form

    This one-page report template is provided by the Oregon Public Health Division Health Intelligence Branch and will adapted for statewide surveillance of the 2017 Solar Eclipse.   read more
    … Intelligence Branch. More than 40 different categories of visits or calls are being reviewed daily with highlights … DAILY SUMMARY Increasing trends EXERCISE EXERCISE ED visits and calls to the Poison Center for [XX] are above …
  • Surveillance for Influenza Using the Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance and Hospital Admissions Syndromic Surveillance Systems, Connecticut, 2004-2007

    Content Type: Abstract

    In Connecticut, several syndromic surveillance systems have been established to detect and monitor potential public health threats: 1) the hospital admissions syndromic surveillance (HASS) system in 2001; and 2) the emergency… read more
    … of pneumonia admissions and weekly percentage of ED visits for the months October through May due to each … Additional correlation analysis was performed for EDSS visits with children ≤12 years excluded. RESULTS During the … seasons, excluding children ≤12 years from EDSS syndrome visits improved their correlation with laboratory reports, …
  • Health Impact of the 2006 Heat Wave Based on Syndromic Surveillance in Gironde, France

    Content Type: Abstract

    In July 2006, an important heat wave occurred in France, and generated alarm of all the public health services. In Gironde, a department in region Aquitaine, the level of "warning and actions" of the Heat Health Watch Warning System, based on an… read more
    … (Agence regionale d’hospitalisation, ARH); - Number of visits for heat-related symptoms (heat stroke, dehydration … Figure 2 showed an unusual increase in the number of visits reported by SOS Médecins for heat related … fo r h ea t sy nd ro m s Figure 2. Number of SOS Médecins visits for heats syndromes between the first June and 31 …
  • 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:))ICDM10Transi<on@cdc.gov) …
  • Syndromic Surveillance in Major Sporting Event- Jamaican Experience

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper evaluates the expended and enhanced surveillance system specifically syndromic surveillance, which was implemented during the International Cricket Council Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007 (ICC CWC WI 2007) in Western Jamaica.
    … 1124 (82%) were investigated. Emergency Room (ER) visits - The data revealed that there was no significant increase in ER visits during the period under surveillance. CONCLUSION … we did not see (1) major increase in Emergency Room visits (2) major infectious disease outbreaks (3) major food …