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  • Can Telehealth Ontario Respiratory Call Volume be Used as a Proxy for Emergency Department Respiratory Visit Surveillance by Public Health?

    Content Type: Abstract

    The prompt detection of disease outbreaks is a major concern to public health as it has the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality (1). Real-time syndromic surveillance uses existing non-traditional data for timely analysis and feedback to… read more
    … me_Be_Used_As_A_Proxy_For_Emergency_Department_Respiratory_Visit_Surveillance_By_Public_Health_.pdf 2 views Submitted … be Used as a Proxy for Emergency Department Respiratory Visit Surveillance by Public Health? Adam van Dijk MSc, Don … be Used as a Proxy for Emergency Department Respiratory Visit Surveillance by Public Health? …
  • A Flexible Space-Time Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak Detection and Monitoring

    Content Type: Abstract

    A time periodic geographic disease surveillance system based on a cylindrical space-time scan statistic proposed by Kulldorff [1] has been used extensively for disease surveillance along with the SaTScan software. This statistic is based on a… read more
    … the circular spatial scan statistic. However, due to the unlimited geometric freedom of cluster shapes, these … the circular spatial scan statistic. However, due to the unlimited geometric freedom of cluster shapes, these …
  • Defining emergency department asthma visits for public health surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of asthma control efforts. When using limited clinical ED datasets for secondary purposes such… read more
    … only the primary ICD-9-CM diagnosis assigned to the ED visit; however, doing so may underestimate the public health … secondary or tertiary positions. For example, for an ED visit with a primary diagnosis of upper respiratory … the infection triggered the asthma exacerbation and the visit could be attributed to both infection and asthma.   …
  • A Comparison of Electronic Emergency Department Visits and Data Collected Manually During a Field Exercise

    Content Type: Abstract

    To compare the completeness of emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admissions data collected electronically for syndromic surveillance and data collected manually for a field surveillance exercise.
    … To compare the completeness of emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admissions data collected electronically … To compare the completeness of emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admissions data collected electronically … hospital admissions for the 7-day period before the site visit. Of the 50 hospital EDs that report electronic data to …
  • Using Age & Syndrome to Characterize Epidemic Winter-Seasonal Acute Gastroenteritis

    Content Type: Abstract

    We describe age- and syndrome-specific emergency department (ED) visit patterns for diarrhea and vomiting associated with periods of confirmed epidemic rotavirus and presumed epidemic norovirus in New York City (NYC).
    … age- and syndrome-specific emergency department (ED) visit patterns for diarrhea and vomiting associated with … age- and syndrome-specific emergency department (ED) visit patterns for diarrhea and vomiting associated with … patterns suggest NV predominated during the ED visit peak in Dec 2004, RV during the Feb-May 2005 period …
  • Timeliness of Ambulatory Data for Age-Specific ILI Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    While there has been some work to evaluate different data sources for syndromic surveillance of influenza, no one has yet assessed the utility of simultaneously restricting data to specific visit settings and patient age-groups using… read more
    … utility of simultaneously restricting data to specific visit settings and patient age-groups using data drawn from … source population, we aimed to compare age-group and visit setting specific patterns in the timing of patients … of the CCFs between vari- ous age group and visit setting specific subsets of ILI visits and P&I …
  • ICD-10-CM Conversion

    Content Type: References

    Curated list of documents supporting the transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS. For more information about the project, visit the project description page on… read more
    … to ICD-10-CM/PCS. For more information about the project, visit the project description page on … (41) 25.3% (86) 43.5% (148) 13.8% (47) 5.3% (18) 2.62 340 Lack of funding 12.4% (42) 26.9% (91) 37.9% (128) 16.3% (55) … diagnosis code to indicate the trimester for which the visit is being billed: 1st trimester: less than 14 weeks 0 …
  • BioSense 2.0 Webinar: Data Quality Checks and Assurance

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenters Caleb Wiedeman and Harold Gil will describe some of the processes their organizations use to ensure the quality of data in BioSense v2.0. First, Caleb Wiedeman will review his normal routine of verifying data quality, including checking… read more
    … BioSense v2.0 application for aberrations and drops in visit counts, linking front-end data to the back end using R, and using phpMyAdmin to check daily files. … data quality metrics in BioSense v2.0 (e.g., drops in visit counts). Discuss the UCEP group’s work on BioSense …