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Monitoring the Vital Signs of Community Health - The Pyramid Syndromic Surveillance Project
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Syndromic surveillance systems have long been an important part of the public health arena. The long standing goal of early detection of disease outbreak has gained new urgency and requires a broader spectrum in the era of… read more… 900 in- patient beds and approximately 165,000 emergency visits annually share a combined patient care database that … -
North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System
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NC BEIPS is a system designed and developed by the NC Division of Public Health (DPH) for early detection of disease and bioterrorism outbreaks or events. It analyzes emergency department (ED) data on a daily basis from 33 (29%) EDs in North… read more… generated, providing a line listing of all the syndrome visits that contributed to the flag on that particular date. … -
Prospective Outbreak Detection in Pets as a Sentinel Indicator for Outbreaks in Humans
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Sixty-one percent of known disease-causing agents that infect humans can also infect animals [1]. While humans are the primary reservoir for only 3% of zoonoses, detection of zoonotic disease outbreaks remains mostly dependant on the identification… read more… was accompanied by marked increases in emergency room visits of people with GI-associated chief complaints and … -
Hybrid Probabilistic Modeling and Automated Data Fusion for Biosurveillance Applications
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The increased threat of bioterrorism and naturally occurring diseases, such as pandemic influenza, continually forces public health authorities to review methods for evaluating data and reports. The objective of bio-surveillance is to automatically… read more… chief complaints, ICD-9 diagnosis codes, physician office visits, and pharmacy data. In addition, information such as … -
Modeling Clinician Detection Time of a Disease Outbreak Due to Inhalational Anthrax
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We developed a probabilistic model of how clinicians are expected to detect a disease outbreak due to an outdoor release of anthrax spores, when the clinicians only have access to traditional clinical information (e.g., no computer-based alerts). We… read more… is only seen by a health care provider once (no return visits) and each clinician diagnoses a given case of IA … -
ROC Curves in Public Health Surveillance: A First Step in Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Our purpose was to develop an ROC curve for public health surveillance similar to those used in diagnostic testing. We developed syndrome surveillance algorithms with differing sensitivity and specificity in detecting the seasonal influenza (ILI)… read more… RESULTS There were over 500,000 patient emergency visits available for analysis in years 2000-2004. Age- Group … -
Louisiana Takes Action Against Drug Abuse by Sharing Syndromic Data
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Louisiana, like other states, grapples with widespread drug abuse. CDC’s DrugOverdose Death Data show Louisiana had a statistically significant 14.7% increase in its drug overdose death rate from 2015–2016. As early as 2013, the Louisiana Office of… read more… began by sharing the percentage of emergency department visits related to substance abuse with the State … began by sharing the percentage of emergency department visits related to substance abuse with the State … -
System Monitoring for Near Real-Time Surveillance for Infectious Diseases
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Events of recent years, particularly concern about a possible avian (H5N1) influenza pandemic, have focused increasing attention on the need for timely surveillance, with real time surveillance as the ultimate goal. In a previous study, we reported… read more… The alerts can be sent through various channels (i.e. E-mail, pager, cell or home phones). During the pilot, the …