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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.… Nicholas Soulakis, nsoulaki@health.nyc.gov http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pcip/pcip.shtml Respiratory … -
The Day-of-the-Week Effect: A Study Across the Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System
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Complex, highly parameterized data models are often used to detect syndromic outbreaks. Unfortunately, such models can pose greater maintenance challenges as parameter variations increase. As such, our work focuses on whether day… read more… Information: Ross Maciejewski, rmacieje@purdue.edu www.purvac.org Advances in Disease Surveillance 2008;5:44 … -
Do Women Really Complain More than Men? Looking at Gastrointestinal Chief Complaints in Boston
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The purpose of syndromic surveillance is the early identification of disease outbreaks. Classification of chief complaints into syndromes and the type of statistics used for aberration detection can affect outbreak detection sensitivity and… read more… [Accessed July 1, 2005] Available from URL: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/syndromedef Advances in Disease … -
BioSense Real-Time Data Initiative: Improving Emergency Preparedness- Monitoring Injury Sub-Syndromes
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Analysis of the BioSense data facilitates the identification, tracking, and management of emergent and routine health events, including potential bioterrorism events, injury related incidents and rapidly spreading naturally occurring events (1).… read more… Nelson Arboleda MD, MPH, narboleda@cdc.gov http://www.cdc.gov/biosense/ Advances in Disease Surveillance … -
Biosurveillance: A Definition, Scope and Description of Current Capability for a National Strategy
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Homeland Security Presidential Directive – 21 (HSPD-21) requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a national biosurveillance capability that provides early warning and situation awareness for urgent public health events.… read more… Statement. 2006. Accessed on June 3, 2008 at: http://www.astho.org/pubs/BiosurveillancePositionStatementFINA … -
Missouri's Syndromic Surveillance Experience
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This abstract describes MissouriÃs experience with syndromic surveillance. Missouri has expanded from acquiring pre-tabulated data from volunteers to receiving patient-level data via electronic feeds from 85 hospitals across the state processed… read more… state. Further Information: ESSENCE@dhss.mo.gov http://www.dhss.mo.gov/ESSENCE/ Advances in Disease Surveillance … -
Identification of features for detection and prediction of homelessness from VA clinical documents
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Homelessness in general is a major issue in the US today. The risk factors of homelessness are myriad, including inadequate income, lack of affordable housing, mental health and substance abuse issues, lack of social support, and nonadherence to… read more… S Shen et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 63 … -
Implementing an outbreak/event tracking monitor for public health
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Utah has a centralized State Health Department and 12 Local Health Departments situated throughout the state. Coordination of outbreaks or events that crosses jurisdictions has been historically difficult. Utah has not had a functional NEDSS-… read more… Mottice et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 54 …