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Surveillance Investigation Tool Development Targeted for Results
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The Automated Hospital Emergency Department Data System is designed to detect early indicators of bioterrorism events and naturally occurring public health threats. Four investigatory tools have been developed with drill-down… read more… Flu Sentinel Reports as a percentage of total hospital visits for the 2006-7 Influenza season. Lastly, real-time, … -
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. … -
Preferences and Perceptions of Biosurveillance System Users - Results from a Recent Survey
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“The ultimate measure of whether a surveillance system has achieved the optimal balance of attributes lies in its usefulness.” No one is better qualified to comment on usefulness than the users. As system developers, we are well advised to… read more… potential data sources, other than emergency department visits, that users felt were useful to essential for … -
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 … -
Rapid Identification of Pneumonias in BioSense Data Using Radiology Text Reports
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BioSense currently receives demographic and chief complaint data from more than 360 hospitals and text radiology reports from 36 hospitals. Detection of pneumonia is an important as several Category A bioterrorism diseases as well as avian influenza… read more… reports of chest X-rays performed for 42,510 hospital visits (which corresponds to 34,883 patients) and the … -
Automated Information Integration from Heterogeneous Data Sources: A Semantic Web Approach
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Integration of information from multiple disparate and heterogeneous sources is a labor and resource intensive task. Heterogeneity can come about in the way data is represented or in the meaning of data in different contexts. Semantic Web… read more… and medical records entries from emergency department visits, a combination of struc- tured, semi-structured 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 …