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  • Animal bite surveillance using NC DETECT emergency department visit data

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    Animal bites may have potentially devastating consequences, including physical and emotional trauma, infection, rabies exposure, hospitalization, and, rarely, death. NC law requires animal bites be reported to local health directors. However,… read more
    … Between 2008 and 2010, 110 to 113 EDs were submitting visit data to NC DETECT. Several animal bite-related on-line reports are available and provide aggregate and visit-level analyses customized to users' respective jurisdictions. The NC DETECT ED visit database currently provides the most comprehensive and …
  • Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor

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    With increased penetration of clinical information system products and increased interest in clinical data exchange, a variety of clinician’s notes are becoming available for surveillance. Chief complaints have been studied extensively, and… read more
    … notes have received attention, but narrative clinic visit notes have gotten little attention.   Objective To … to detect fever, and to assess the feasibility of parsing visit notes for syndromic surveillance. Document … Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor George …
  • in silico Surveillance: Highly detailed agent-based models for surveillance system evaluation and design

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    Modern public health surveillance systems have great potential for improving public health. However, evaluating the performance of surveillance systems is challenging because examples of baseline disease distribution in the population are limited to… read more
    … in highly detailed synthetic populations can provide unlimited realistic baseline data. Objective To create, … in highly detailed synthetic populations can provide unlimited realistic baseline data. Methods Dynamic social … in highly detailed synthetic populations can provide unlimited realistic baseline data. Objective To create, …
  • Evaluating the Validity of ED Visit Data for Biosurveillance

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    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) receives a designated set of data elements electronically available from 110 emergency departments (EDs) (98%) on at least a daily basis via… read more
    … system. Document Evaluating_The_Validity_Of_Ed_Visit_Data_For_Biosurveillance.pdf Submitted by elamb on … Evaluating the Validity of ED Visit Data for Biosurveillance Aaron Ratcliffe MS, Clifton … Evaluating the Validity of ED Visit Data for Biosurveillance …
  • A Controlled Vocabulary for "Reason for Visit" in Ambulatory Encounters

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    Objective: To enable improved health surveillance and clinical decision support within ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems.
    … systems. Document A_Controlled_Vocabulary_For_Reason_For_Visit_In_Ambulatory_Encounters.pdf Submitted by elamb on … RANKED SLOPE= -1 A Controlled Vocabulary for “Reason for Visit” in Ambulatory Encounters F Mostashari*, N Soulakis*, … A Controlled Vocabulary for "Reason for Visit" in Ambulatory Encounters …
  • GIS Mapping of Occupational Health Visit Data from a Southeastern Ontario Tertiary Care Hospital

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    Health care workers (HCWs) have an increased risk of exposure to infectious agents including (among others) tuberculosis, influenza, norovirus, and Clostridium difficile as a consequence of patient care1,2 Most occupational transmission is… read more
    … GIS Mapping of Occupational Health Visit Data from a Southeastern Ontario Tertiary Care … GIS Mapping of Occupational Health Visit Data from a Southeastern Ontario Tertiary Care Hospital …
  • Defining and Applying a Method for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data

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    The goal of this paper is to describe a methodology used to create a gold standard set of emergency department (ED) data that can subsequently be used to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of syndrome definitions.
    … thod_For_Establishing_Gold_Standard_Sets_Of_Emergency_Room_Visit_Data.pdf Submitted by elamb on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 08:40 … for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data George S. Ghneim1, D.V.M., M.P.V.M., Ph.D., … for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data …
  • Comparison of Ambulatory Electronic Health Record and Emergency Department Visit Log Data for Respiratory, Fever, and GI Syndromes

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    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 … 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 …