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An Emergency Department Based Syndromic Surveillance System for Meningitis and Encephalitis, Maricopa County, AZ 2004
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We developed, implemented and evaluated Meningitis and Encephalitis (M/E) syndrome case definitions based on electronic Emergency Department (ED) chief complaint data; and assessed their ability to detect aberrations that correspond with M/E… read more… for 570 (70%) of these cases. Abstracted data included ED visit date and time, age, gender, chief complaint and … -
A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival
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One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more… Results This method was tested and validated on ED visit count data covering over 6 years and aggregated at … -
Developing, Evaluating, and Disseminating Definitions for Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice: A Guidance Document
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This document, released February 18, 2019, focuses on several key areas related to syndrome definition creation, including the basics behind a syndrome definition, steps to build a syndrome, evaluation of a new (or old) definition, and dissemination… read more… new field involving the passive collection of healthcare visits in a way that is timely. This passive collection is … practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits in near-real time and aid in situational awareness … and modify as necessary. Try to think about how a visit for your condition of interest may be unique. Consider … -
Detection Abilities of Several Commonly Used Algorithms as Determined by Simulation Analysis
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The Public Health Agency of Canada is currently utilizing a syndromic surveillance prototype called the Canadian Early Warning System (CEWS). This system monitors several live data feeds, including emergency room chief… read more… E. coli outbreak incorporating 1750 cases into ER visit data for Winnipeg, Manitoba (pop. 700,000+) for the … -
Establishing a Syndromic Surveillance System Using Chief-Complaint Data at Emergency Department of One Regional Hospital in Taipei City to Detect Infectious Disease Outbreaks
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Facing public health threats of bioterrorism and emerging infectious diseases (EID), the traditional passive surveillance system is not efficient and outmoded. Evidences reveal that several newly developed syndromic surveillance… read more… From Oct. 1 to May 31, 2006, there have been 126,675 ED visit data stored in the data base. We categorized ED … -
Evaluation of Alerting Sparse-Data Streams of Population Healthcare-Seeking Data
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Objective This presentation discusses the problem of detecting small-scale events in biosurveillance data that are relatively sparse in the sense that the median count of monitored time series values is zero. Research goals are to understand… read more… streams were small-scale series of 1400 days of daily visit counts in 20 syndromic categories. The simulated data … -
Navy Disease Reporting System Case Validation through Use of HL7 and SADR/SIDR Databases: Chlamydia Trachomatis
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Reporting allows for the collection of statistics that show how often disease occurs, which helps researchers identify disease trends and track disease outbreaks. U.S. Navy has a modified list of reportable medical events to accommodate for… read more… only the electronic labo- ratory results and provider visit data. HL7 Yes No Yes No SADR Yes Yes No No Yes 89 89 … -
North Texas School Health Surveillance: First-Year Progress and Next Steps
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Recognizing the threat of pandemic influenza and new or emerging disease such as SARS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that schools work in partnership with their local health departments “to develop a surveillance… read more… information about DotNetNuke or to download the software, visit www.dotnetnuke.com. 5. Powell T, Tarrant County School …