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  • Development of Syndrome Definitions for Acute Unintentional Drug and Heroin Overdose

    Content Type: Abstract

    Nationally, deaths due to opioid overdose have continually increased for the past 15 years . Deaths specifically related to heroin increased more than four-fold between 2002 and 2014. Hospital inpatient discharge data provide information on non… read more
    … include a significant lag in reporting time. Syndromic ED visit data provide near real-time identification of public … unspecified substances among emergency department (ED) visits in Virginia. 4 views Submitted by teresa.hamby@d… on … include a significant lag in reporting time. Syndromic ED visit data provide near real-time identification of public …
  • Development and Application of Syndromic Surveillance for Severe Weather Events Following Hurricane Sandy

    Content Type: Journal Article

    Following Hurricane Superstorm Sandy, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) developed indicators to enhance syndromic surveillance for extreme weather events in EpiCenter, an online system that collects and analyzes… read more
    … emergency department (ED) data and classifies each visit by indicator or syndrome. Tsai Stella Hamby Teresa Chu … emergency department (ED) data and classifies each visit by indicator or syndrome. …
  • Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 3

    Content Type: Report

    A Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop was held in Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 3 on June 9-10, 2015 at the offices of the District of Columbia Department of Health. This was the eighth workshop in a series, with… read more
    … developed and shared analyses of ILI ED visit trends between MMWR Week 40, 2014 through MMWR Week 21, 2015 and drug overdose ED visit trends between MMWR Week 1, 2014 through MMWR Week 21, … participants developed and shared analyses of ILI ED visit trends between MMWR Week 40, 2014 through MMWR Week …
  • Syndrome evaluation of individuals reporting emergency department utilization for notifiable disease and conditions

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Duval County Health Department (DCHD) serves a community of over one million people in Jacksonville, FL, USA. Each year, DCHD Epidemiology Program reports an average of 1133 (4-year average) notifiable diseases and conditions (NDC)… read more
    … of NDC to identify related emergency department (ED) visits and subsequent CC-based syndrome categorization. … of SS syndromes based on the patient’s CC during their ED visit. Document … have surveyed reports of NDC to identify related ED visits and subsequent CC-based syndrome categorization. …
  • An information visualization approach to improving data quality

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Public Health - Seattle & King County syndromic surveillance system has been collecting emergency department (ED) data since 1999. These data include hospital name, age, sex, zip code, chief complaint, diagnoses (when available), disposition… read more
    … (when available), disposition, and a patient and visit key. Data are collected for 19 of 20 King County EDs, for visits that occurred the previous day. Over time, various … diagnoses (when available), disposition and a patient and visit key. Data are collected for 19 of 20 King County EDs, …
  • Alabama Department of Public Health–Syndromic Surveillance Monitoring and Improving Data Quality

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Data latency limited the Alabama Department of Public Health’s (ADPH) ability torecognize and respond quickly to public health threats. Despite ADPH’s request that 95% of syndromic surveillance (SyS) data be submitted to ESSENCE* within 24… read more
    … (SyS) data be submitted to ESSENCE* within 24 hours of a visit, some facilities were slow to process and submit data, … (SyS) data be submitted to ESSENCE* within 24 hours of a visit, some facilities were slow to process and submit data, … (SyS) data be submitted to ESSENCE* within 24 hours of a visit, some facilities were slow to process and submit data, …
  • Increasing the Return-on-Investment from Syndromic Surveillance: Putting the Systems to Work for Routine Local Health Department Activities

    Content Type: Abstract

    Since October 2004, the Indiana State Health Department and the Marion County Health Department have been developing and using a syndromic surveillance system based on emergency department admission data. The system … read more
    … receives standards-based HL7 emergency department visit data, including free-text chief complaints from 72 … receives standards-based HL7 emergency department (ED) visit data, including free-text chief complaints from 72 … to arrange payment for proper heating. Weather related visits Using custom queries in ESSENCE, MCHD looks for ED …
  • Open Source Development of Syndromic Investigation Decision Support Tools

    Content Type: Abstract

    Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS), a syndromic surveillance system created by the University of Pittsburgh has been used in Ohio by the state and local health departments since late 2003. There are currently 133… read more
    … facilities providing 88% coverage of emergency department visits statewide to the RODS system managed by Health … date admitted, age, gender, zip code, hospital name, visit number, chief complaint, and syndrome. The HMS-RODS … facilities providing 88% coverage of emergency department visits statewide to the RODS system managed by Health …