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  • Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina

    Content Type: Abstract

    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the early event detection system that serves public health users across North Carolina. One important data source for this system is North… read more
    … for this system is North Carolina emergency department visits. ED data from hospitals across the state are … of monitoring hurricane Katrina evacuees’ hospital visits in North Carolina. Document … of monitoring hurricane Katrina evacuees’ hospital visits in North Carolina. BACKGROUND The North Carolina …
  • Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance and Population-Based Health Monitoring in Los Angeles County

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Bioterrorism Surveillance Unit of the Los Angeles County (LAC) Department of Public Health, Acute Communicable Disease Control (ACDC) program analyzes Emergency Department (ED) data daily. Currently capturing over 40% of the ED… read more
    … (ED) data daily. Currently capturing over 40% of the ED visits in LAC, the system categorizes visits into syndrome groups and analyzes the data for … (ED) data daily. Currently capturing over 40% of the ED visits in LAC, the system categorizes visits into syndrome …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Shows Medical Surge in Dallas–Fort Worth during Hurricane Harvey, 2017

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on August 25, 2017, resulting in 88 fatalities and more than $125 billion in damages to infrastructure. In Houston, flooding created a toxic mix of chemicals, sewage, biohazards, and 8 million cubic yards of… read more
    … contributed to increases in emergency department (ED) visits in Houston and cities that received persons … scientists looked at spatial and temporal variation in ED visits to DFW hospitals attributable to the storm. This … Between August 25, 2017, and September 7, 2017, ED visits in the DFW area increased about 4% per day, totaling …
  • Identifying Categories of Over-the-Counter Products with Superior Outbreak Detection Performance

    Content Type: Abstract

    A significant research topic in biosurveillance is how to group individual events—such as single emergency department (ED) visits and sales of over-thecounter healthcare (OTC) products—into counts of “similar” events. For OTC products, the goal is… read more
    … events—such as single emergency department (ED) visits and sales of over-thecounter healthcare (OTC) … clusters OTC products based on how well they ‘explain’ ED visits for influenzalike illness (ILI) can find categories … events—such as single emer- gency department (ED) visits and sales of over-the- counter healthcare (OTC) …
  • Automated Monitoring of Exposures Using the BioSense System

    Content Type: Abstract

    BioSense is a national automated surveillance system designed to enhance the nation's capability to rapidly detect and quantify public health emergencies, by accessing and analyzing diagnostic and prediagnostic health data. The… read more
    … “exposure” sub-syndrome.   OBJECTIVE To identify hospital visits with chief complaints concerning exposures, … 2SRA International, Inc. OBJECTIVE To identify hospital visits with chief complaints concerning exposures, … department (ED) visits, outpatient (OP) reasons for visit, and inpatient (IP) reasons for admit were examined …
  • Inferring Travel from Social Media

    Content Type: Abstract

    The spread of infectious diseases is facilitated by human travel. Infectious diseases are often introduced into a population by travelers and then spread among susceptible individuals. Likewise uninfected susceptible travelers can move into… read more
    … of currency and movement of individuals using cell phone data. Although these data are finer grained, they have … methods (e.g., tracking currency movements or cell phone signals) have been suggested to measure how people … of currency and movement of individuals using cell phone data. Although these data are finer grained, they have …
  • Data Requests for Research: Best Practices based on the NC DETECT Experience

    Content Type: Abstract

    The North Carolina Division of Public Health (NC DPH) has been collecting emergency department data in collaboration with the Carolina Center for Health Informatics in the UNC Department of Emergency Medicine since 1999. As of August 2011, there are… read more
    … NC population and captures approximately 4.5 million ED visits each year. As a result, requests for data from … NC population and captures approximately 4.5 million ED visits each year. As a result, requests for data from … tick-borne illness and asthma, and comparison of NC ED visit data to national data, among others. Because the ED …
  • Monitoring Staphylococcus Infection Trends with Biosurveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a leading cause of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI). Until recently, S. aureus pneumonia has been considered primarily a nosocomial infection, and was reported… read more
    … system to describe trends in emergency department visits for SSTI as well as staphylococcus pneumonia … system to describe trends in emergency department (ED) visits for skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI) as well as … The data elements include hospital name, date/time of visit, age, sex, zip code, chief complaint, disposition, …