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Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina
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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the early event detection system that serves public health users across North Carolina. One important data source for this system is North… read more… Katrina evacuees’ hospital visits in North Carolina. Document … results of each report were exported into an electronic document, which was emailed to staff at the DPH. This report …Identifying Syndromic Fingerprints in Reason Fields in Emergency Department or Telehealth Records using N-grams for Similarity Analysis
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An N-gram is a sub-sequence of n items from a given sequence where n can be 1, 2,…, n and the items can be letters or words. N-gram models are widely used in statistical natural language processing [3]. In the syndromic surveillance context, N-grams… read more… that these fingerprints are valuable for classification. Document … Text categori- sation”, Proceedings of Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, Las Vegas, NV. …Minimizing False Alarms in Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes a method of avoiding false alerts in automated syndromic surveillance algorithms which monitor the temporal relationship between a particular monitored syndrome (the ìtargetî) in relationship to other reference healthcare data… read more… reference healthcare data streams (the ìcontextî). Document … surveillance up to now, will be applied to gain practical guidance toward this goal. REFERENCES [1] Burkom H, Alerting …Respiratory Syndrome in the Netherlands in Relation to Pathogen Activity
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Syndromic surveillance may be suited for detection of emerging respiratory disease elevations that could pass undiagnosed. The syndromes under surveillance should then retrospectively reflect known respiratory pathogen activity. To validate this for… read more… by the seasonal dynamics of common respiratory pathogens. Document … data using the CDC syndrome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance. Time series of respiratory pathogens (Respiratory …Securing protected health information in NC DETECT
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NC DETECT receives daily data files from emergency departments (ED), the statewide EMS data collection system, the statewide poison center, and veterinary laboratory test results. Included in these data are elements, which may contain Protected… read more… patient data during both integration and reporting. Document … functionality which allows authorized users to document signals and keep track of signal investigations. …Utilizing a Patient Tracking System for Public Health Emergencies
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In 2003, the need for a system to track and manage patient status and location was identified by Boston Emergency Medical Services (Boston EMS) and the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals. After consultation with EMS (… read more… information needs during public health emergencies. Document … was facilitated by the parameters set in the PHIN document. Stakeholders worked closely with system developers …A Syndrome Track and Reporting System in Hillsborough County Florida: Findings from a Systematic Evaluation
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One of the first county-wide syndromic surveillance systems in the nation, the Syndromic Tracking and Reporting System (STARS) has been in operation since 11/01/2001, and now covers Hillsborough, Pinellas and Collier counties.… read more… methods, and aberration investigation. Document … efficiency, characteristics of aberration detection, and guidance procedure for aberration investigation. Syndrome …Understanding the Dynamics of Gastro-Intestinal Syndrome: General Practioner and Hospital Data vs Laboratory Surveillance
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Objective Understanding the baseline dynamics of syndrome counts is essential for use in prospective syndromic surveillance. Therefore we studied to what extent the known seasonal dynamics of gastro-intestinal (GI… read more… GI syndrome in general practitioner and hospital data. Document … using the CDC syndrome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance. Trends in positive diagnoses of known GI pathogens …