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  • Full Automatic Syndromic Surveillance System Using Prescription in Japan

    Content Type: Abstract

    I Medical services for outpatients are well developed due to universal public health insurance. Even patients who have mild symptoms can visit a clinic freely in Japan. Thus the monitoring of outpatients provides very timely information to detect… read more
    … insurance. Even patients who have mild symptoms can visit a clinic freely in Japan. Thus the monitoring of … insurance. Even pa- tients who have mild symptoms can visit a clinic freely in Japan. Thus the monitoring of … insurance. Even patients who have mild symptoms can visit a clinic freely in Japan. Thus the monitoring of …
  • Responding to Syndromic Surveillance Alerts: An Adaptable Protocol for Georgia Health Districts

    Content Type: Abstract

    Although many syndromic surveillance (SS) systems have been developed and implemented, few have included response protocols to guide local health jurisdictions when alerts occur [1,2]. SS was first implemented in GA during the 2004 G-8 Summit. Six… read more
    … generated through analyses of emergency department (ED) visit data. Document … generated through analyses of emergency department (ED) visit data. BACKGROUND Although many syndromic surveillance … step-by-step evaluation of the data supplies an easy-to- follow approach for assessing the concern level of the alert …
  • Comparison of Influenza-like Illness Syndrome Classification Between Two Syndromic Surveillance Systems

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2004, the BioDefend (BD) syndromic surveillance (SS) system was implemented in Duval County hospitals (Jacksonville, FL). Daily emergency department chief complaints are manually classified and entered into the BD system by… read more
    … one using a clinician’s classification of reason for visit and the other using an automated chief complaint … one using a clinician’s classification of reason for visit and the other us- ing an automated chief complaint … one using a clinician’s classification of reason for visit and the other using an automated chief complaint …
  • Syndromic surveillance of influenza-like illness using automated VA data preliminary results from the Idaho infectious disease reporting network

    Content Type: Abstract

    Current influenza-like illness monitoring in Idaho is on the basis of syndromic surveillance using laboratory data, combined with periodic person-to-person reports collected by Idaho state workers. This system relies on voluntary reporting.… read more
    … fashion. Clinical data entered in CPRS includes real-time visit information, vital signs, ICD-9, pharmacy, and labs. … fashion. Clinical data entered in CPRS includes real-time visit information, vital signs, ICD-9, pharmacy, and labs. … fashion. Clinical data entered in CPRS includes real-time visit information, vital signs, ICD-9, pharmacy, and labs. …
  • CDC Opioid v2

    Content Type: Syndrome

    THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC OPIOID V3 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE. States currently funded by… read more
    … indicating an opioid poisoning is present, the ED visit is automatically included in the syndrome. If there is … diagnosis code/SNOMED present for opioid poisoning, the visit is only included if the chief complaint text has both … indicating an opioid poisoning is present, the ED visit is automatically included in the syndrome. If there is …
  • Building an automated Bayesian case detection system

    Content Type: Abstract

    Current practices of automated case detection fall into the extremes of diagnostic accuracy and timeliness. In regards to diagnostic accuracy, electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) is at one extreme and syndromic surveillance is at… read more
    … immediate, and ELR is delayed 7 days from initial patient visit. A plausible solution, a middle way, to the extremes … mediate, and ELR is delayed 7 days from initial patient visit.1 A plausible solution, a middle way, to the extremes … by summing the posterior probability for flu for each visit. Figure 1 shows chart of percent daily expected ED flu …
  • 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 … by the CDC. Upon flagging of an aberration, follow-up investigation is conducted to verify cases, and … counties. STARS uses hospital emergency department visit data to detect aberrations of non-specific syndromes …
  • Finding Time-of-Arrival Clusters of Exposure-Related Visits to Emergency Departments in Contiguous Hospital Groups

    Content Type: Abstract

    Time-of-arrival (TOA) surveillance methodology consists of identifying clusters of patients arriving to a hospital emergency department (ED) with similar complaints within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently… read more
    … within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently conducted by the Florida Department … within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently conducted by the Florida Department … types of exposures. For each hospital, time series of visit counts from 1 hour cells, based on patient …