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  • Comparison of Ambulatory Electronic Health Record and Emergency Department Visit Log Data for Respiratory, Fever, and GI Syndromes

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes three years of electronic health record (EHR) data from a network of urban ambulatory care clinics in New York City.
    … bulatory_Electronic_Health_Record_And_Emergency_Department_Visit_Log_Data_For_Respiratory_Fever_And_Gi_Syndromes.pdf 6 … Electronic Health Record and Emergency Department Visit Log Data for Respiratory, Fever, and GI Syndromes … Electronic Health Record and Emergency Department Visit Log Data for Respiratory, Fever, and GI Syndromes …
  • A Comparison of Electronic Emergency Department Visits and Data Collected Manually During a Field Exercise

    Content Type: Abstract

    To compare the completeness of emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admissions data collected electronically for syndromic surveillance and data collected manually for a field surveillance exercise.
    … To compare the completeness of emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admissions data collected electronically … A Comparison of Electronic Emergency Department Visits and Data Collected Manually During a Field Exercise … To compare the completeness of emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admissions data collected electronically …
  • Sensitivity and Specificity of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome in the Turkish Language

    Content Type: Abstract

    Previously we developed an “Ngram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in Turkish for bioterrorism. The classifier is developed from a set of ED visits for which both the ICD… read more
    … The classifier is developed from a set of ED visits for which both the ICD diagnosis code and CC are … in that it assigns a probability that each visit falls within the syndrome rather than ruling the visit … of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome in the Turkish Language …
  • Using a Syndromic Approach to Monitor Alcohol-Related Visits of College-Aged Emergency Department Patients

    Content Type: Abstract

    According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) surveillance of drug-related ED visits, underage (B21 years) alcohol-alone visit rates have been increasing since 2004 to 2009 (1… read more
    … Warning Network (DAWN) surveillance of drug-related ED visits, underage (B21 years) alcohol-alone visit rates have been increasing since 2004 to 2009 (1). … Using a syndromic approach to monitor alcohol-related visits of college-aged emergency department patients …
  • 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 … care hospital beds and 32% of all emergency department visits statewide. We present findings from TOA monitoring in … within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently conducted by the Florida Department …
  • Oregon ESSENCE: Using ESSENCE for Mass Gathering Surveillance

    Content Type: Report

    Syndromic surveillance is the near real-time monitoring of key health indicators in emergency department (ED) and urgent care visits. Oregon ESSENCE tracks the number of visits for specific patient symptoms using… read more
    … indicators in emergency department (ED) and urgent care visits. Oregon ESSENCE tracks the number of visits for … (what the patient says is the reason for their visit) and discharge diagnosis codes. Visit information is … indicators in emergency department (ED) and urgent care visits. Oregon ESSENCE tracks the number of visits for …
  • Using Age & Syndrome to Characterize Epidemic Winter-Seasonal Acute Gastroenteritis

    Content Type: Abstract

    We describe age- and syndrome-specific emergency department (ED) visit patterns for diarrhea and vomiting associated with periods of confirmed epidemic rotavirus and presumed epidemic norovirus in New York City (NYC).
    … age- and syndrome-specific emergency department (ED) visit patterns for diarrhea and vomiting associated with … age- and syndrome-specific emergency department (ED) visit patterns for diarrhea and vomiting associated with … confirmed RV activity and to characterize associated ED visits in NYC. METHODS To estimate incident winter-season …
  • Timeliness of Ambulatory Data for Age-Specific ILI Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    While there has been some work to evaluate different data sources for syndromic surveillance of influenza, no one has yet assessed the utility of simultaneously restricting data to specific visit settings and patient age-groups using… read more
    … utility of simultaneously restricting data to specific visit settings and patient age-groups using data drawn from … source population, we aimed to compare age-group and visit setting specific patterns in the timing of patients … of the CCFs between vari- ous age group and visit setting specific subsets of ILI visits and P&I …