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Sensibility and Specificity of Syndromic System for Influenza Based on General Practitioners Network in Gironde, France
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To determine sensitivity and specificity of syndromic surveillance of influenza based on data from SOS Medecins, a healthcare network of emergency general practitioners (GP) in Bordeaux, France.… (http://www.sosmedecins- france.fr/en/default.htm). Last visit on 10/07/2007. [3] Flahault A, Boussard E, Vibert JF, … -
Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview
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These slides were presented at the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview Partner meeting, led by CDC and organized by ASTHO in March of 2019. Presenters Puja Seth, PhD – Lead, Epidemiology… read more… sources ▪ Two sources: – Near real-time syndromic data (visit information within 24-48 hours) – Lagged hospital … from 31 states for ED and 19 states for EMS – Some as far back as Q1 2016 – All data through Q3 2018 (as of January … -
Emergency Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) for Public Health in Canada
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In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more… captured in real-time: chief complaint, data/time of visit, hospital name, age, gender and 5- digit postal code … -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Using Syndromic Surveillance to Identify a Neuro-Invasive Disease Outbreak in Los Angeles County
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In November of 2001 a syndromic surveillance system was established in Los Angeles (LA) County to analyze emergency department (ED) chief complaints in select hospitals. Chief complaints were analyzed and categorized into a syndrome (rash,… read more… classification, and dates of interest (onset date, ED visit date) were reviewed for cases that visited a syndromic … -
Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor for Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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The goal of this project is to compare automated syn-dromic surveillance queries using raw chief complaints to those pre-processed with the Emergency Medical Text Processor (EMT-P) system.… by two clinical experts who determined whether the visit met the ILI clinical case definition. Any … -
Fast and Flexible Outbreak Detection by Linear-Time Subset Scanning
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The spatial scan statistic [1] detects significant spatial clusters of disease by maximizing a likelihood ratio statistic over a large set of spatial regions. Typical spatial scan approaches either constrain the search regions to… read more… spatial scans, with and without LTSS, on 281 days of ED visit data from 88 Allegheny County zip codes. Various scan … -
Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes
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Emergency Department (ED) triage notes are clinical notes that expand upon the chief complaint, and are included in the AHIC minimum dataset for biosurveillance.1 Clinical notes can improve the accuracy of keyword-based syndromes but require… read more… G, Bamberger A, Friedman C. Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor. Advances in … -
Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification
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This paper describes a novel approach to the statistical classification of free-text chief complaints for the purpose of syndromic surveillance.… geographic and temporal features of the patient and/or visit could also potentially augment the model. Other …