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  • Use of Final Diagnosis Data for Surveillance of Respiratory Syncytial Virus

    Content Type: Abstract

    The BioSense system receives patient level clinical data from > 370 hospitals and 1100 ambulatory care Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs medical facilities. Visits are assigned as appropriate to 78 sub-syndromes… read more
    … We could not de-duplicate DoD patient visits due to lack of a longitudinal patient identifier. We analyzed ICD-9 … with a period of latency between the time of the patient visit and when the data are available to BioSense; however, …
  • Using ESSENCE to Track a Gastrointestinal Outbreak in a Homeless Shelter in Miami-Dade County, 2008

    Content Type: Abstract

    Although Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) provides tools to detect a significant alert regarding an unusual public health event, combining that information with … read more
    … zip code, hospital and time of emergency department (ED) visit to explore a potential outbreak. If clustering is … 2008, three small clusters by resident zip code and ED visit time were detected in a southern Miami-Dade County … staff contacted the Director of the shelter and a site visit was conducted on Wednesday, June 18 by MDCHD Office of …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Climate and Health Guidance Document

    Content Type: Report

    In general, data from public health surveillance can be used for short- and long-term planning and response through retrospective data analysis of trends over time or specific events. Combining health outcome data (e.g., hospitalizations or deaths)… read more
    … designated health outcome. EDs may update individual visit data, providing discharge (i.e., post-visit) diagnosis codes (i.e., diagnosis or external cause … As the diagnosis codes are assigned at the end of the visit when all the information (e.g., laboratory test) is …
  • Analyses of National Syndromic Surveillance Data: Real-Time Hospital, Veterans Affairs (VA) & Department of Defense (DoD) Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Since July 2004 the BioSense program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received data from DoD military and VA outpatient clinics (not in real time). In January 2006 real-time hospital data (e.g. chief complaints and… read more
    … within 24 hours of discharge were grouped into a single visit. For DoD data, each visit to a facility, regardless of duration since the last dis- charge is considered as one visit. We calculated both the percent of total visits that …
  • The use of NC DETECT ED data to examine heat-related illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    NC DETECT provides near-real-time statewide surveillance capacity to local, regional and state level users across NC with twice daily data feeds from 119 (99%) emergency departments (EDs), hourly updates from the statewide poison center, and daily… read more
    … line-listing data were used to assign each HRI ED visit to one of the following categories: … negligence, no A/C, substance abuse or undefined. Visit categories were examined by age group over the study …
  • The New York State BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience

    Content Type: Abstract

    In addition to monitoring Emergency Department chief complaint data and pharmacy sales as indicators of outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System also monitors information from the… read more
    … mine case resolution, and providing user-level feed- back to the CDC to effect system improvements. BACKGROUND In … mation: patient age, gender, coded patient ID and/or visit ID. Although all 8 alerts were determined to be “false …
  • Data Visualization for Health Surveillance: Current Concepts and New Horizons

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenters Wayne Loschen, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL) Karl Soetebier, MPW, Georgia Division of Public Health Paul Picciano, PhD,… read more
    … for collaborators! §  Contact me at hardisty@psu.edu §  Visit the GeoVISTA Center Website … (e.g., local units, developing nations) §  Lack of IT resources/expertise §  Non-programmers, …
  • Preventing blindness due to diabetic retinopathy in India: Need for a paradigm shift

    Content Type: Webinar

    Estimates suggest that there are 65 million persons living with diabetes in India and 6 million are at risk of going blind due to retinopathy. Recent studies highlight that 45% persons with diabetes are already blind when they present to an eye care… read more
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