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  • Health Effects of LA county Wildfires in October 2007

    Content Type: Abstract

    Determine if poor air quality resulting from wildfires could be measured in the general population by monitoring smoke-related respiratory Emergency Department (EDs) visits.
    … smoke-related respiratory Emergency Department (EDs) visits. Document … smoke-related respiratory Emergency Department (EDs) visits. BACKGROUND October 20, 2007 marked the beginning of … week of November to further quantify the change in ED visit frequency resulting from the poor air quality. RESULTS …
  • Syndromic Surveillance in Boston: Validating the Detection of Small Events and Integrating Response from a Local Health Department

    Content Type: Abstract

    The interpretation of aberrations detected by syndromic surveillance is critical for success, but poses challenges for local health departments who must conduct appropriate follow-up and confirm outbreaks. This paper describes the response of the… read more
    … (BPHC) to a cluster of emergency department (ED) visits in children detected by syndromic surveillance. … (BPHC) to a cluster of emergency department (ED) visits in children detected by syndromic surveillance. … complaint and demographic data are received for each visit; chief complaints are then grouped into eight syndrome …
  • An Exploration of New Uses of Traditional Data within an Ecological Study: Air Quality Effects on Pediatric Asthma Exacerbation Analysis

    Content Type: Abstract

    Under a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the DC DOH established the Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (EPHTP) to monitor specific environmental and public health indicators and to investigate any… read more
    … 2004 and DC hospital pediatric emergency department (ED) visits for asthma exacerbations.    Objective The study … the relationship between air quality and pediatric ED visits for asthma among DC residents over a 3 year period. … air quality and pediatric emergency department (ED) visits for asthma among DC residents over a 3 year period. …
  • 2021 Mortality Pilot Project Final Webinar

    Content Type: Meeting Recordings & Notes

    In 2021, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and CDC’s NSSP partnered with the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) and Ruvos on a project to route mortality data through… read more
    … in this effort within your own jurisdiction, please email syndromic@cste.org or nssp@cdc.gov .  Additional … in this effort within your own jurisdiction, please email syndromic@cste.org or nssp@cdc.gov .  Additional … in this effort within your own jurisdiction, please email syndromic@cste.org or nssp@cdc.gov .  Additional …
  • Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … for this system is North Carolina emergency department visits. ED data from hospitals across the state are … of monitoring hurricane Katrina evacuees’ hospital visits in North Carolina. Document … of monitoring hurricane Katrina evacuees’ hospital visits in North Carolina. BACKGROUND The North Carolina …
  • Syndromic Surveillance and Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery (SPHERR) Subcommittee Calls

    Content Type: Meeting Recordings & Notes

    2024• September 2024 (Injury & Illness Trends in Grand Canyon)-… read more
    … February 2022 - No call this month January 2022 The Give: Visits of Interest Query and BT-related Queries in ESSENCE … Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Visits - Recording , Agenda April 2021  The Give: Winter …  (The Give: An Optimal Algorithm Matching EMS Data to ED Visit Data and Development and Use of Queries Related to …
  • An Evaluation of Heat-Related Emergency Department Visits Based on Differences in Heat Syndrome Definitions in Northern Illinois

    Content Type: Abstract

    Comparison of heat-related health effects across regions or among different syndromic surveillance systems is problematic due to the lack of a standardized heat-related syndrome definition. While a national standard for common heat-related syndromes… read more
    … An Evaluation of Heat-Related Emergency Department Visits Based on Differences in Heat Syndrome Definitions in …
  • Fast and Flexible Outbreak Detection by Linear-Time Subset Scanning

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … to constrain our search by penalizing or excluding un- likely subsets (e.g. disconnected or highly irregular … spatial scans, with and without LTSS, on 281 days of ED visit data from 88 Allegheny County zip codes. Various scan …