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  • Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance (Pt 3): A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the BioSense Implementation

    Content Type: Webinar

    This webinar is part of the Meaningful Use Webinar Series entitled "Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue" Presenters Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS, Centers for… read more
    … Date: Emergency department (ED), urgent care (UC) patient visits, Inpatient care, and Ambulatory care (EP’s) … Severe illness or death Dizziness Rash Patient visit volume Gulf Oil Spill – Mental Health Surveillance q  … V is it C ou nt s ILI and pneumonia diagnosis inpatient visits ILI inpatient visits A B C D Hospitalized patients …
  • Bayesian Analytical Tool for ILI and Fast Detection of Intentional Release

    Content Type: Abstract

    Bio-surveillance is an area providing real time or near real time data sets with a rich structure. In this area, the new wave of interest lies in incorporating medical-based data such as percentage of Influenza-Like-Illnesses (ILI) or count of ILI… read more
    … (ILI) or count of ILI observed during visits to Emergency Room as intelligence function; since … such as percentage of ILI or count of ILI observed during visits to Emergency Room as intelligence function; since … (ILI) or count of ILI observed during visits to Emergency Room as intelligence function; since …
  • Modeling Disease Surveillance and Assessing its Effectiveness for Detection of Acute Respiratory Outbreaks in Resource-Limited Settings

    Content Type: Abstract

    A U.S. Department of Defense program is underway to assess health surveillance in resource-poor settings and to evaluate the Early Warning Outbreak Reporting System. This program has included several information-gathering trips,… read more
    … uses health and census data collected during the 2006 Lao visit and incorporates features of recently published agent- … Scenarios investigated were derived from the Lao site visit--the gain from adding EWORS capability in strategic …
  • Assessing and Optimizing the Accuracy of Physician Billing Claims for Use in Automated Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    To assess the accuracy of community-based physician claims for identifying 5 syndromes: fever, gastrointestinal, neurological, rash, and respiratory.
    … status (+/-), syn- drome type, syndrome ICD-9 code, and visit month (to avoid seasonal bias). The RAMQ then sent the … patient complaints, symptoms, and signs for each sampled visit. The sensitivity, specific- ity, and positive …
  • Emergency Department Data Quality Best Practices

    Content Type: Abstract

    Data quality for syndromic surveillance extends beyond validating and evaluating syndrome results. Data aggregators and data providers can take additional steps to monitor and ensure the accuracy of the data. In North Carolina,… read more
    … of data elements that should not change, i.e. time of visit, discharge disposition, etc. The aggregate trends monitored (for each hospital) include a) number of visits/day, b) percentage distributions for disposition, … acuity and insurance codes and c) percentage of visits that receive a diagnosis code, percentage that …
  • Automated Detection of GI Syndrome using Structured and Non-Structured Data from the VA EMR

    Content Type: Abstract

    Objective We performed a gold-standard manual chart review for gastro-intestinal syndrome to evaluate automated detection models based on both structured and non-structured data extracted from the VA … read more
    … METHODS We randomly sampled 15,377 of 253,818 outpatient visits to the VA Maryland Health Care system (VAMHCS) and … Additionally, we searched for documentation on the index visit day of fever > 37.8ºC. RESULTS The ESSENCE and … The NegEx algorithm for text-processing detected 2,338 visits with non-negated vomiting or diarrhea or abdominal …
  • A Case Manager Tool for Anomaly Investigation in BioSurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Effective anomaly detection depends on the timely, asynchronous generation of anomalies from multiple data streams using multiple algorithms. Our objective is to describe the use of a case manager tool for combining anomalies into cases, and for… read more
    … of New Jersey include some 4.2 million records for ED visits to 24 hospitals in the New Jersey and New York, for the years 1996-2005. The record for each visit includes hospital, patient geography … the meningitis scare, the “Clinton” chest pain effect, ED visits related to possible anthrax exposure around October …
  • Using Syndromic Surveillance Data for Enhanced Case-Capture of Conditions of Public Health Interest

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance can be a useful tool for the early recognition of outbreaks and trends in emergency department (ED) data. In addition, as a more timely data source than traditional disease reporting, syndromic data may also be… read more
    … from 8 hospitals. These data include: date and time of visit, age, zip code, chief complaint, mode of arrival, and … for the year 2006, representing 0.65% of all ED visits and an average of 7.9 ED visits to review per day. The most frequent conditions of …