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  • Syndromic Surveillance and Heat Wave: Is it Working?

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    Most of the time, health consequences of heat waves are serious. Heat wave response plans were developed for reducing health effects but even if they are very efficient it is not possible to eliminate all health consequences.… read more
    … through the Internet. Items collected for each patient visit included the diagnosis code according to ICD10, … Based on the same age groups, the daily means of patient visits and hospitalized patients were calcu- lated. The … “on alert period”. During the “on alert period”, 4,557 visits per day were recorded vs. 4,511 during the “off alert …
  • A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival

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    One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more
    … of Health, Bureau of Epidemiology, Tallahassee, FL, USA E-mail: howard.burkom@jhuapl.edu Objective This presentation … Results This method was tested and validated on ED visit count data covering over 6 years and aggregated at …
  • Using Public School Absentee Data to Enhance Syndromic Surveillance in Miami-Dade County, 2007

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    The Miami-Dade County Health Department currently utilizes Emergency Department based Syndromic surveillance data, 911 Call Center data, and more recently Public School Absenteeism data. Daily monitoring of school absenteeism… read more
    … hours of 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.; 36.3% (74 of 204) of visits to the ED among 0-17 year olds had a chief complaint … 11:00 p.m., March 11th and 12th. This apparent delay to visit the ED may signal that the GI illness was not severe …
  • Privacy Protection versus Cluster Detection in Spatial Epidemiology

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    With the widespread deployment of near real time population health monitoring, there is increasing focus on spatial cluster detection for identifying disease outbreaks. These spatial epidemiologic methods rely on knowledge of patient location to… read more
    … tions, significant clusters contained fewer additional ED visit points (i.e., points that were not part of the … in small circle) and few additional points from the ED visits (red dots outside small circle). However, when the … with points at zip code centroids (right), many more ED visits were included in the detected cluster. CONCLUSIONS …
  • Use of Surveillance Data to Measure the Impact of Viral Infections among Young Children

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    Respiratory viruses cause substantial morbidity and costly resource utilization among young children, especially during the winter months. Accurate estimates of the impact of these viruses are important in guiding prevention efforts… read more
    … extrapolation to calculate population- based rates of ED visits for influenza and RSV and associated resource … The effect of influenza on hospitalizations, outpatient visits, and courses of antibiotics I nchildren. N Engl J … admission 0.9 (0.4, 1.9) 11.8 (9.3, 14.9) Primary care visit 4.8 (3.7, 6.3) 23.2 (20.1, 26.6) Antibiotic use 3.1 …
  • How’s the Weather? Severe Weather Classifications in Syndromic Surveillance

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    Hurricane ‘Superstorm’ Sandy struck New Jersey on October 29, 2012, causing harm to the health of New Jersey residents and billions of dollars of damage to businesses, transportation, and infrastructure. Monitoring health outcomes for increased… read more
    … in more recent events to monitor for weather-related visits to storm-affected area emergency departments (ED’s). … in more recent events to monitor for weather-related visits to storm-affected area emergency departments (ED’s). …
  • Using Syndromic Surveillance and Climatic Data to Detect High Intensity HFMD Seasons

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    Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a highly infectious disease common among early childhood populations caused by human enteroviruses (Enterovirus genus).1 The enteroviruses responsible for HFMD generally cause mild illness among children in the… read more
    … in emergency department (ED) and urgent care center (UCC) visits for hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) among … in emergency department (ED) and urgent care center (UCC) visits for hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) among …
  • A Probabilistic Case-finding Algorithm for Chronic Disease Surveillance

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    There is a clear need for improved surveillance of chronic diseases to guide public health practice and policy. Chronic disease surveillance has tended to use administrative data, due to the need to link encounters for an individual over time and to… read more
    … a patient to have one hospitalization or two physician visits within two years with a diagnostic code for DM. While … a patient to have one hospitalization or two physician visits within two years with a diagnostic code for DM. While …