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  • Comparing and Contrasting Two ESSENCE Syndrome Definition Query Methods

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Kansas Syndromic Surveillance Program (KSSP) utilizes the ESSENCE v.1.20 program provided by the National Syndromic Surveillance Program to view and analyze Kansas Emergency Department (ED) data. Methods that allow an ESSENCE user to query both… read more
    … both the Discharge Diagnosis (DD) and Chief Complaint (CC) fields simultaneously allow for more specific and … in this way. The first is a query of the field named “CC and DD.” The CC and DD field contains a concatenation … consists of the last non-null value for that patient visit ID and the chief complaint parsed is the first …
  • Assessing the Usage of Dating Sites and Social Networking Sites in Newly Diagnosed HIV Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Harris County, Texas, 2014

    Content Type: Abstract

    Internet based technologies are becoming quite prominent among today’s generation due to its easy accessibility through computer or phone devices. Internet’s relative anonymity leads high risk groups to find it easier to meet sexual partners with… read more
    … partners with similar characteristics through dating sites like Grindr, Jack’D, Adams4Adams etc. and mainstream social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. According to … partners with similar characteristics through dating sites like Grindr, Jack’D, Adams4Adams etc. and mainstream …
  • Unstructured Free-text Data and Meaningful Use

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2010, as rules for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Electronic Heatlh Record (EHR) Incentive Programs (Meaningful Use)(1), were finalized, ISDS became aware of a trend towards new EHR systems capturing or sending emergency department (ED)… read more
    … or sending emergency department (ED) chief complaint (CC) data as structured variables without including the … surveillance and survey data on the value of free-text CC to public health practice. On 1/31/11, ISDS, in … was conducted to better support a requirement for ED CC as free-text, by investigating the relationship between …
  • Ontology-Based Automatic Chief Complaints Classification for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Free-text emergency department triage chief complaints (CCs) are a popular data source used by many syndromic surveillance systems because of their timeliness, availability, and relevance. The lack of standardization of CC vocabulary poses a major… read more
    … and relevance. The lack of standardization of CC vocabulary poses a major technical challenge to any automatic CC classification approach. This challenge can be partially … through a medical ontology in the context of automatic CC classification for syndromic surveillance.   Objective …
  • Making the Best Use of Textual ED Data for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    In this webinar Dr. Travers will review two tools developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which aid in processing textual CC’s and triage notes in support of syndromic surveillance. Textual data from emergency departments… read more
    … Carolina at Chapel Hill, which aid in processing textual CC’s and triage notes in support of syndromic … can still be problematic. Chief complaints from ED visits are a common data source for syndromic surveillance, … but there is still no standard for documenting CC. EDs still customize their own CC pick lists, and …
  • Detection of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Chief Complaint Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Following an Oct 12-13, 2006 snowstorm, almost 400,000 homes in western New York lost power, some for up to 12 days. News reports said that emergency rooms saw many patients with CO exposure; 3 deaths were attributed to CO poisoning. As part of NYS… read more
    … system, electronic ED records with a free-text CC field listing the symptoms reported by the patient are sent to NYS DOH daily. Each CC is searched for text strings indicating complaints in one … of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning from chief complaints (CC) in hospital emergency department (ED) records submitted …
  • Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) receives daily emergency department (ED) data from 33 (29%) of the 114 EDs in North Carolina. These data are available via a Web-based portal and the Early… read more
    … definitions of the CDC and search the chief complaint (CC) and, when available, triage note (TN) and initial … a TN, which is a brief text passage that describes the CC in more detail. Most research on the utility of ED data for SS has focused on the use of CC. The goal of this study was to determine the sensitivity, …
  • Detecting Changes in Chief Complaint Word Count: Effects on Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) receives daily ED data from 49 of NYC’s 52 hospitals, representing approximately 95% of ED visits citywide. Chief complaint (CC) is categorized into syndrome groupings using… read more
    … NYC’s 52 hospitals, representing approximately 95% of ED visits citywide. Chief complaint (CC) is categorized into syndrome groupings using text … information systems (HIS). Previous work noticed that CC word count varied over time within and among EDs. The …