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  • A Term-based Approach to Asyndromic Determination of Significant Case Clusters

    Content Type: Abstract

    Biosurveillance systems commonly depend on free-text chief complaints (CC)s for timely situational awareness. However, diagnosis codes may not be available soon enough and may have uncertain value because they are assigned for billing purposes… read more
    … systems commonly depend on free-text chief complaints (CC)s for timely situational awareness. However, diagnosis … [1]. While effective for finding case clusters whose CC terms are classifiable into syndromes, TOA … complaints from a health facility with emergent or urgent care capability. 8 views Submitted by rmathes on Mon, …
  • Animal bite surveillance using NC DETECT emergency department visit data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Animal bites may have potentially devastating consequences, including physical and emotional trauma, infection, rabies exposure, hospitalization, and, rarely, death. NC law requires animal bites be reported to local health directors. However,… read more
    … Between 2008 and 2010, 110 to 113 EDs were submitting visit data to NC DETECT. Several animal bite-related on-line reports are available and provide aggregate and visit-level analyses customized to users' respective jurisdictions. The NC DETECT ED visit database currently provides the most comprehensive and …
  • Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more
    … departments for their own surveillance needs. Originally, sites were asked to send whatever syndrome definition they … to send their broader, higher count syndrome. In 2008, sites were asked to send both a broad syndrome, and a narrow … illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot DR …
  • Use of Diagnosis Code in Mental Health Syndrome Definition

    Content Type: Abstract

    Between 2006 and 2013, the rate of emergency department (ED) visits related to mental and substance use disorders increased substantially. This increase was higher for mental disorders visits (55 percent for depression, anxiety or stress reactions… read more
    … 2006 and 2013, the rate of emergency department (ED) visits related to mental and substance use disorders … mental disorders indicates a growing burden on the health-care delivery system. New methods of surveillance are needed … systems primarily rely on patient chief complaints (CC) to monitor and detect health events. Some studies …
  • An automated influenza-like-illness reporting system using freetext emergency department reports

    Content Type: Abstract

    Current methods for influenza surveillance include laboratory confirmed case reporting, sentinel physician reporting of Influenza-Like-Illness (ILI) and chief-complaint monitoring from emergency departments (EDs). The current… read more
    … to incomplete, delayed reporting. Chief complaint (CC) based surveillance is limited in that a patient’s … the cost, delays, incompleteness and low specificity (for CC) in current methods of influenza surveillance is … to incomplete, delayed reporting. Chief complaint (CC) based surveillance is limited in that a patient’s chief …
  • Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor

    Content Type: Abstract

    With increased penetration of clinical information system products and increased interest in clinical data exchange, a variety of clinician’s notes are becoming available for surveillance. Chief complaints have been studied extensively, and… read more
    … notes have received attention, but narrative clinic visit notes have gotten little attention.   Objective To … to detect fever, and to assess the feasibility of parsing visit notes for syndromic surveillance. Document … Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor George …
  • Heat-related Illness - CSTE Heat Workgroup

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This definition is based the following document created by the CSTE Heat Workgroup: Heat-related Illness Syndrome Query: A guidance Document for Implementing Heat-related Illness Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice (attached). The query… read more
    … and discharge diagnosis. It is also available in the CC and DD category in NSSP ESSENCE. (992 OR (E900 ANDNOT … OR EXHAUST OR EXPOS OR FATIGUE OR CRAMP OR STRESS OR IN CAR OR OUTSIDE OR PROSTRATION) ) ) ANDNOT ( ALLERG OR … OR HEATH OR HEATTH OR HITTING HEAT OR PALPITATION OR CHEAT OR HEATER OR HEATHER OR HEATING OR HOTEL OR LITHOTR OR …
  • A Comparison of Chief Complaints and Emergency Department Reports for Identifying Patients with Acute Lower Respiratory Syndrome

    Content Type: Abstract

    Automated syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on free-text chief complaints. Chief complaints (CC) demonstrate low to moderate sensitivity in identifying syndromic cases. Emergency Department (ED)… read more
    … based on free-text chief complaints. Chief complaints (CC) demonstrate low to moderate sensitivity in identifying … based on free-text chief complaints. Chief complaints (CC) demonstrate low to moderate sensitivity in identify- ing … (lower three diamonds). ED Classifi- cation dominated CC Classification by a physician (), CoCo ( ), and MPLUS ( …