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  • HL7 Version 2.5.1 PHIN Messaging Guide for Syndromic Surveillance: Emergency Department, Urgent Care and Inpatient Settings, Release 2.0, NIST Clarifications and Validation Guidelines, Version 1.5 (July 2016)

    Content Type: Messaging Standard

    This document lists conformance testing issues and associated policies derived by NIST, in collaboration with the CDC, based on a review of the HL7 Version 2.5.1 PHIN Messaging Guide for Syndromic Surveillance: Emergency Department, Urgent Care,… read more
    … added regarding OBX-5.4, OBX-5.5, OBX-5.6 in Facility/Visit Type OBX segment with CWE in OBX-2 for messages in the SS-UC-1_UC_Visit_Influenza_Child Test Case July 19, 2016 NIST … surveillance, SHALL have the same value for PV1- 19.1 (Visit ID). The NIST test tool will not test conformance …
  • Syndromic Surveillance to Monitor Wildfire Events

    Content Type: Success Stories

    In recent years, Washington State has experienced episodes of degraded air quality from wildfires burning within the state, as well as surrounding states and provinces. Wildfire smoke, particularly the high concentrations of small particulate matter… read more
    … across the state (maximum and average), total ED visit volume, respiratory effects (e.g., general, asthma, … were removed. For example, timeseries of daily visit counts were converted to visit percent in order to remove the appearance of increases … maximum PM2.5 and smoke-related emergency department visit counts in Washington State. …
  • Sensitivity and Specificity of ICD-9 Based Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural Emergency Department, Michigan 2004

    Content Type: Abstract

    The use of syndromic surveillance systems to assist with the timely detection of unusual health events first occurred prior to the events of September 11, 2001. In the State of Michigan a pilot project with emergency departments began collecting… read more
    … in subgroups including sex, age group, day of week of visit, month of visit, and resi- dency status to determine significant …
  • Arizona's Near Real Time School-based Syndromic Surveillance Program

    Content Type: Abstract

    1) Describe a near real-time school-based syndromic surveillance program that integrates electronic data records and a two-way health alert system for early outbreak detection, notification, and possible intervention for Arizona schools. 2)… read more
    … nurses to upload critical codes immediately. The alert email is sent to ADHS and the local health depart- ment … submitted approximately 1.6 mil- lion school nurse visit records via the SSSP. ILI and influenza data from …
  • CDC Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Why the syndrome was created: The purpose of the suspected child abuse and neglect (sCAN) syndromic surveillance query is to monitor trends in childhood abuse and neglect in emergency departments and… read more
    … suspected child abuse or neglect are categorized as visits related to suspected or confirmed physical, sexual, … age of 18 years to capture child abuse or neglect-related visits. To maintain specificity of the query, certain chief … suspected child abuse or neglect are categorized as visits related to suspected or confirmed physical, sexual, …
  • Use of Epidemiological Knowledge to Create Syndromic Surveillance Reports

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance is an investigational approach used to monitor trends of illness in communities. It relies on pre-diagnostic health data rather than laboratory-confirmed clinical diagnoses. Its primary purpose is to detect… read more
    … race/ethnicity, resident zip code, hospital, time of visit and chief complaint whereas bioterrorism-associated … file include patient age, sex, chief complaint, time of visit, race/ethnicity, discharge disposition (e.g. admitted, …
  • Beyond Detection: Attack Characterization with Syndromic and Clinical Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Most research in syndromic surveillance has emphasized early detection, but clinical diagnosis of the index case will tend to occur before detection by syndromic surveillance for certain types of outbreaks [1]. Syndromic surveillance may, however,… read more
    … we conducted a simulation study using ambulatory visit records for respiratory conditions. We used a model … [1] to simulate the daily increase in syndromic clinic visits and the time to first diagnosis through blood culture … each outbreak, we injected the simulated syndromic clinic visits into baseline data and estimated the dis- ease burden …
  • Syndromic Surveillance in the State of Florida

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic Surveillance utilizes health-related symptom data to monitor disease outbreaks. Its’ potential for prompt detection of disease outbreaks and strengthening of rapid public health response is anticipated. As a result, syndromic surveillance… read more
    … were identified. Data collection was through a mail/telephone survey utilizing a questionnaire made of five … While most of the sys- tems are based on data of patient visit to Emergency Department of major hospitals, a few also …