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  • Combining Laboratory Test Orders and Outpatient Visits to Monitor Respiratory Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    To evaluate whether joint monitoring of laboratory test orders and outpatient visits improves the sensitivity and timeliness of alerting during seasonal increases in respiratory illness.
    … joint monitoring of laboratory test orders and outpatient visits improves the sensitivity and timeliness of alerting … Document Combining_Laboratory_Test_Orders_And_Outpatient_Visits_To_Monitor_Respiratory_Illness.pdf 2 views Submitted … Combining Laboratory Test Orders and Outpatient Visits to Monitor Respiratory Illness Cara H. Olsen, MS, …
  • Analytic Fusion of ESSENCE Clinical Evidence Sources for Routine Decision Support

    Content Type: Abstract

    Block 3 of the US Military Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) system affords routine access to multiple sources of data. These include administrative clinical encounter records in the… read more
    … and others. CAPER records include a free-text Reason for Visit field, analogous to chief complaint text in civilian … and others. CAPER records include a free-text Reason for Visit field, analogous to chief complaint text in civilian … APL Technical Digest. 2004;25:68�75. *Howard Burkom E-mail: howard.burkom@jhuapl.edu (page number not for citation …
  • School-Related Visits - CSTE Environmental Health in School Workgroup

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Most children spend a significant portion of their time in daycare or at school. CSTE's Environmental Health in School workgroup identified these days/hours as a setting for possible "occupational" exposures. The CSTE EH in School Workgroup created… read more
    … note query for "school-related" emergency department (ED) visits using ESSENCE. Search Terms: “in school” or “at … Identifying School-Related Syndromic Surveillance Visits Collaborators Melissa Jordan (Florida Department of … note query for "school-related" emergency department (ED) visits using ESSENCE. Search Terms: “in school” or “at …
  • A Syndrome Track and Reporting System in Hillsborough County Florida: Findings from a Systematic Evaluation

    Content Type: Abstract

    One of the first county-wide syndromic surveillance systems in the nation, the Syndromic Tracking and Reporting System (STARS) has been in operation since 11/01/2001, and now covers Hillsborough, Pinellas and Collier counties.… read more
    … counties. STARS uses hospital emergency department visit data to detect aberrations of non-specific syndromes … counties. STARS uses hospital emergency department visit data to detect aberrations of non-specific syndromes … counties. STARS uses hospital emergency department visit data to detect aberrations of non-specific syndromes …
  • Estimation And Validation of An Outbreak Simulator

    Content Type: Abstract

    In previous work, we described a non-disease-specific outbreak simulator for the evaluation of outbreak detection algorithms. This Template-Driven Simulator generates disease patterns using user-defined template functions.… read more
    … anthrax cases. The home census block group and time of visit to an emergency department are available for each … anthrax cases. The home census block group and time of visit to an emergency de- partment are available for each … (1) For each case, BARD simulates emergency depart- ment visit times using a convolution of two log- normal …
  • Characterization of communicable disease epidemics using bayesian inversion

    Content Type: Abstract

    The evolution of a communicable disease in a human population is not entirely predictable. However, the spreading process can be assumed to vary smoothly in time. The time-dependent infection process can be linked to observations of… read more
    … the delay is caused by incubation and a (hospital) visit delay, modeled as independent random variables. A … data, the delay is caused by incubation and a (hospital) visit delay, modeled as independent random variables. A … planning. Methods We extend the model by Brookmeyer and Gail, for use with biosurveillance data, by adding a model …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Shows Rise in Emergency Department Visits after Case of Ebola

    Content Type: Success Stories

    The first Ebola virus case on American soil was confirmed September 30, 2014, in a 45-year-old man. He had entered the country on September 20, 2014, from Liberia. Feeling ill, he visited a Dallas, Texas, hospital 5 days later where he was released… read more
    … surveillance data was conducted to examine whether ED visits changed among metropolitan Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW), … of Ebola virus was confirmed (the “event”). Visits and visit rates by chief complaint before and after the event … Syndromic Surveillance Shows Rise in Emergency Department Visits after Case of Ebola Public Health Problem The first …
  • Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 4

    Content Type: Report

    A Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop was held in Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 4 on May 12-13, 2015 at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, GA. This was the seventh workshop in a… read more
    … participants developed and shared analyses of asthma ED visit trends between August 3, 2014 and January 31, 2015. … participants developed and shared analyses of asthma ED visit trends between August 3, 2014 and January 31, 2015. … selected syndromic surveillance of emergency department visits for asthma during the 2014 Enterovirus D68 outbreak …