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  • Monitoring for Local Transmission of Zika Virus using Emergency Department Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    The first travel-associated cases of Zika virus infection in New York City (NYC) were identified in January 2016. Local transmission of Zika virus from imported cases is possible due to presence of Aedes albopictus mosquitos. Timely detection of… read more
    … spread of illness. Daily emergency department (ED) visit surveillance to detect individual cases and … Case and cluster identification of emergency department visits related to local transmission of Zika virus.  8 views … spread of illness. Daily emergency department (ED) visit surveillance to detect individual cases and …
  • CDC Stimulant v2

    Content Type: Syndrome

    THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC STIMULANT OVERDOSE V3 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE.… read more
    … last year, they started to notice increases in overdose visits related to stimulant use. Because CDC had worked with … indicating a stimulant poisoning is present, the ED visit is automatically included in the syndrome. If there is … that these codes were not identifying acute overdose visits and instead were being coded correctly as “stimulant …
  • 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. …
  • BioSense 2.0 Webinar: Data Quality Checks and Assurance

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenters Caleb Wiedeman and Harold Gil will describe some of the processes their organizations use to ensure the quality of data in BioSense v2.0. First, Caleb Wiedeman will review his normal routine of verifying data quality, including checking… read more
    … BioSense v2.0 application for aberrations and drops in visit counts, linking front-end data to the back end using … data quality metrics in BioSense v2.0 (e.g., drops in visit counts). Discuss the UCEP group’s work on BioSense …  v2.0  application  for  aberrations   and  drops  in  visit  counts,  linking  front-­‐end  data  to  the  back …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …