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  • Identification and Assessment of Repeat Drug Overdose Visits at EDs in Virginia

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    The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) utilizes syndromic surveillance ED data to measure morbidity associated with opioid and heroin overdoses among Virginia residents. Understanding which individuals within a population use ED services for… read more
    … of individuals with repeated emergency department (ED) visits for unintentional opioid overdose, including heroin, … they differ from individuals with a single overdose ED visit. 13 views Submitted by elamb on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 20:22 … of individuals with repeated emergency department (ED) visits for unintentional opioid overdose, including heroin, …
  • Assessing the Potential Impact of the BioSense 24-hour Rule Using NC DETECT ED Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Per a frequently asked questions document on the ISDS website, approximately two thirds of HL7 records received in BioSense do not provide a Visit ID. As a result, BioSense data processing rules use the patient ID, facility ID and earliest date in… read more
    … of HL7 records received in BioSense do not provide a Visit ID. As a result, BioSense data processing rules use … ID occur within the same 24-hour time frame, those two visits are combined into one visit and the earliest date … unique visit IDs and these are used to identify unique visits in NC DETECT. These data are also sent twice daily to …
  • Evaluation of Syndrome Algorithms for Detecting Pneumonia Emergency Department Visits

    Content Type: Abstract

    The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) uses ED syndromic surveillance to monitor near real-time trends in pneumonia visits. The original pneumonia algorithm was developed based on ED chief complaints, and more recently was modified… read more
    … to monitor near real-time trends in pneumonia visits. The original pneumonia algorithm was developed based … used to describe pneumonia emergency department (ED) visit trends in New York City (NYC). 6 views Submitted by … to monitor near real-time trends in pneumonia visits. The original pneumonia algorithm was developed based …
  • Finding Time-of-Arrival Clusters of Exposure-Related Visits to Emergency Departments in Contiguous Hospital Groups

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    Time-of-arrival (TOA) surveillance methodology consists of identifying clusters of patients arriving to a hospital emergency department (ED) with similar complaints within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently… read more
    … within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently conducted by the Florida Department … care hospital beds and 32% of all emergency department visits statewide. We present findings from TOA monitoring in … within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently conducted by the Florida Department …
  • Syndromic Surveillance for Situation Awareness: Understanding Syndrome Performance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse in Idaho was anticipated to lead to a large influx of visitors in many communities, prompting a widespread effort to assure Idaho was prepared. To support these efforts, the Idaho Syndromic Surveillance… read more
    … syndromic surveillance using emergency department (ED) visit data contributed to the National Syndromic … message containing information on an emergency department visit is sent to ISSp within 24 hours of the visit and includes the chief complaint for the visit. Data …
  • Processing of Novel Electronic Health Data to Support Public Health Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Accurately gauging the health status of a population during an event of public health significance (e.g. hurricanes, H1N1 2009 pandemic) in support of emergency response and situation awareness efforts can be a challenge for established public… read more
    … health information systems that previously had been un-vetted as public health information sources. These … health information systems that previously had been un-vetted as public health information sources. These …
  • Timeliness of Ambulatory Data for Age-Specific ILI Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    While there has been some work to evaluate different data sources for syndromic surveillance of influenza, no one has yet assessed the utility of simultaneously restricting data to specific visit settings and patient age-groups using… read more
    … utility of simultaneously restricting data to specific visit settings and patient age-groups using data drawn from … source population, we aimed to compare age-group and visit setting specific patterns in the timing of patients … of the CCFs between vari- ous age group and visit setting specific subsets of ILI visits and P&I …
  • Analysis of Daily Enhanced Syndromic Surveillance in Hillsborough County, FL, 2015

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    The Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County (FDOH- Hillsborough) conducts enhanced syndromic surveillance on a daily basis. The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics in Florida (ESSENCE-FL… read more
    … system added a feature that delivers an automatic daily email to designated primary ESSENCE-FL users in each county containing all visits which have been detected by the state’s visits of … chief complaint and discharge diagnosis (CCDD) field of a visit for keywords related to reportable diseases and …