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  • Homelessness - Washington State Department of Health

    Content Type: Syndrome

    The following syndrome was developed to explore emergency department visit records involving people experiencing homelessness. Trends over time, patient demographics, geographic distribution, and primary reasons for seeking care were explored.… read more
    … syndrome was developed to explore emergency department visit records involving people experiencing homelessness. … syndrome was developed to explore emergency department visit records involving people experiencing homelessness. …
  • Mental Health Emergency Department Visits in Houston: Developing a Post-Disaster Mental Health Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    The objective of this project was to classify and extract mental health emergency department (ED) visits from the Houston Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) system. In addition, this project will offer a
    … and extract mental health emergency department (ED) visits from the Houston Real-time Outbreak and Disease … Mental Health Emergency Department Visits in Houston: Developing a Post-Disaster Mental Health … and extract mental health emergency department (ED) visits from the Houston Real-time Outbreak and Disease …
  • Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?

    Content Type: Abstract

    A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to … read more
    … that these areas received only 15% of total outpatient visits. Because of this seemingly favorable signal-to-noise … that an ARI surveillance system that focused on urgent visits would outperform one that monitored all outpatient … respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas? H Zheng1,2, T …
  • Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?

    Content Type: Abstract

    A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to improve the performance… read more
    … that these areas received only 15% of total outpatient visits. Because of this seemingly favorable signal-to-noise … that an ARI surveillance system that focused on urgent visits would outperform one that monitored all outpatient … respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas? H Zheng1,2, T …
  • Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?

    Content Type: Abstract

    A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to improve the performance… read more
    … that these areas received only 15% of total outpatient visits.1 Because of this seemingly favorable signal-to-noise … that an ARI surveillance system that focused on urgent visits would outperform one that monitored all outpatient … respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas? H Zheng1,2, T …
  • Optimizing Performance of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome

    Content Type: Abstract

    A number of different methods are currently used to classify patients into syndromic groups based on the patient’s chief complaint (CC). We previously reported results using an “Ngram” text processing program for building classifiers… read more
    … applies the ICD9 classifier to a training set of ED visits for which both the CC and ICD9 code are known. A … and specificity of the Ngram CC classifier for individual visits using a ROC curve analysis. Points on the ROC curve … of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome Philip Brown¹, Sylvia …
  • Visits with Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections Reported to the BioSense System, 2006-2007

    Content Type: Abstract

    Biosurveillance systems typically receive free- text chief complaint and coded diagnosis data, however this data has limited specificity for notifiable disease surveillance. The Biosense System receives chief complaint and/or diagnosis data from… read more
    … a Category B bioterrorist agent. Objective To describe visits reported from BioSense hospitals with non-typhoidal … Visits with Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections Reported to … Health Informatics, Atlanta, GA Objective To describe visits reported from BioSense hospitals with non-typhoidal …
  • Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Influenza-like Illness and Antiviral Medication Transactions

    Content Type: Abstract

    The electronic surveillance system for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH). ESSENCE utilizes a secure,… read more
    … medication transactions and emergency department (ED) visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) and the relationship … Trends in emergency department visits for influenza-like illness and antiviral medication … medication transactions and emergency department (ED) visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) and the relationship …