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  • Monitoring Hospital Emergency Department Visits for Chief Complaints of Insect Bites after a Major Flood

    Content Type: Abstract

    On August 20th and 21st, 2007, Ohio sustained heavy rains which resulted in severe flooding over a nine-county area in the north-central part of the state. Increased hospital emergency department (ED) visits were expected for gastrointestinal… read more
    … confirm the report. METHODS Emergency department (ED) visit data, including chief complaints (CC), were downloaded … Analysis of character-specific phrases in hospital ED visit data likely has applicability to monitoring other …
  • Klompas et al. Respond: Automated Public Health Reporting-- Possible with a Coalition of the Willing

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    Professor Hripcsak rightly points out some of the challenges inherent in disseminating and sustaining robust information systems to automate the detection and reporting of notifiable diseases using data from electronic medical records (EMR). New… read more
    … identification and notification is a salient re- minder that sophisticated technology alone is not enough to … working on enabling ESP to send clinical messages back into the secured clinical inter- face of the EMR. In …
  • Evaluation of the Rhode Island Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RI RODS) System: Disparate Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Rhode Island implemented the Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) system, developed in 1999 by the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Biomedical Informatics. This system is based on real-time information from… read more
    … were reported to RI RODS in May – August 2006. Each visit was assigned to a CDCWG syndrome based on first-listed … electronic ICD-9-CM diagnosis was quantified for each ED visit during the study period. RESULTS Although specificity …
  • Surveillance triggers for community-based mitigation of pandemic influenza

    Content Type: Abstract

    Four waves of pandemic influenza from 1918-1920 in New York City caused ~40,000 deaths, primarily of young-adults and children. The explosiveness of the autumn 1918 wave has led many to believe that in the event of a similar… read more
    … and a conservative assumption of a ~5:1 excess ED visit to death ratio, we estimate that community-wide … based on 1-wk illness to death lag and ~5:1 excess ED visit/deaths1918. Red squares indicate %cAR for week of …
  • How Bad Is It? Using Biosurveillance Data to Monitor the Severity of Seasonal Flu

    Content Type: Abstract

    We sought to evaluate the validity of pneumonia and influenza hospitalizations (PI) data gathered by our biosurveillance system.
    … we collect include hospital name, date and time of visit, date of discharge, age, sex, home zip code, chief … was intubated or was in the ICU, and a patient and visit key. Data are transmitted daily, but due to delays in …
  • Utilizing Emergency Department Data to Evaluate Primary Care Clinic Hours

    Content Type: Abstract

    In addition to utilizing syndromic surveillance data to respond to public health threats and prepare for major incidents, local health departments can utilize the data to examine patient volumes in the emergency departments (EDs) of… read more
    … the urban public hospital were analyzed for average daily visit volume on weekdays and weekends. The average daily visit volume per hour on weekdays and week- ends was …
  • An Exploration of New Uses of Traditional Data within an Ecological Study: Air Quality Effects on Pediatric Asthma Exacerbation Analysis

    Content Type: Abstract

    Under a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the DC DOH established the Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (EPHTP) to monitor specific environmental and public health indicators and to investigate any… read more
    … addition, spatial analysis by zip code was performed. ED visit rates by zip code were derived using the 2000 US census data. ED visit data from zip codes with more than 30% of children in …
  • Transitioning to ICD-10 CM: What is the impact for Public Health Surveillance?

    Content Type: Webinar

    Peter Hicks, an epidemiologist from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will present an expanded version of the 2013 ISDS Pre-Conference Workshop on the ICD-9/10 CM Transition and the impact upon Public Health. His presentation will… read more
    … codes is limited and the structure is restrictive (14K) • Lack clinical specificity to account for complexity or … by June 1, 2014 • Synthetic Data (dual coded) project Back-end Database Modifications Visit Date Time Patient Class Chief Complaint Diagnosis Text …