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  • Open Source Development of Syndromic Investigation Decision Support Tools

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    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 …
  • A Biosurveillance-driven Home Score to Guide Strep Pharyngitis Treatment

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    GAS pharyngitis affects hundreds of millions of individuals globally each year, and over 12 million seek care in the United States annually for sore throat. Clinicians cannot differentiate GAS from other causes of acute pharyngitis based on the… read more
    … identify very-low risk patients prior to an ambulatory visit could reduce low-yield, unnecessary visits for a most common outpatient condition. We recently … A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis before a health care visit based only on history and real-time local …
  • Syndrome evaluation of individuals reporting emergency department utilization for notifiable disease and conditions

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    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

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    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, …
  • Comparing and Contrasting Two ESSENCE Syndrome Definition Query Methods

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    The Kansas Syndromic Surveillance Program (KSSP) utilizes the ESSENCE v.1.20 program provided by the National Syndromic Surveillance Program to view and analyze Kansas Emergency Department (ED) data. Methods that allow an ESSENCE user to query both… read more
    … consists of the last non-null value for that patient visit ID and the chief complaint parsed is the first non-null chief complaint value for that patient visit ID that is parsed by the ESSENCE platform. For this … of all chief complaint values related to a singular ED visit, and Discharge Diagnosis History is the same concept, …
  • Towards Estimating Childhood Obesity Prevalence Using Electronic Health Records

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    Although recent data suggests childhood obesity prevalence has stabilized, an estimated 1 in 3 U.S. children are overweight or obese.1 Further, there is variation by racial and ethnic groups, location, age, and poverty2, resulting in a need for… read more
    … to the population. Additionally, the type of clinical visit (e.g., wellness vs. acute) may affect the prevalence … may be additional selection biases based on the type of visit and whether height and weight was measured and … The current work sought to quantify the effect of visit type on childhood overweight and obesity prevalence …
  • Finding Chances to Intervene Before the Fatal Overdose: Linking ED and Mortality Data

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    In 2017, 951 Missouri residents died from an opioid overdose, a record number for the state.1 This continues the trend from 2016, which saw an increase of over 30% in opioid overdose deaths compared to 2015. The Missouri Department of Health and… read more
    … data, diagnoses codes, procedures codes, and other visit information. Records can have up to 23 diagnosis … The first diagnosis field is the primary reason for a visit. Objective: Link emergency department (ED) with death … data, diagnoses codes, procedures codes, and other visit information. Records can have up to 23 diagnosis …
  • Optimization of Linkage between North Carolina EMS and ED Data: EMS Naloxone Cases

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    The opioid overdose crisis has rapidly expanded in North Carolina (NC), paralleling the epidemic across the United States. The number of opioid overdose deaths in NC has increased by nearly 40% each year since 2015.1 Critical to preventing overdose… read more
    … with naloxone administration to the corresponding ED visit assists in understanding the health outcomes of these … administration in 2017 were successfully linked to an ED visit record. This study explored methods to improve EMS and … with naloxone administration to the corresponding ED visit assists in understanding the health outcomes of these …