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  • Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor

    Content Type: Abstract

    With increased penetration of clinical information system products and increased interest in clinical data exchange, a variety of clinician’s notes are becoming available for surveillance. Chief complaints have been studied extensively, and… read more
    … notes have received attention, but narrative clinic visit notes have gotten little attention.   Objective To … current acute fever as fever related to the current visit, that occurred within the past week, and that was not … 2004 Apr;37(2):120-7. [2] Friedman C, Shagina L, Lussier Y, Hripcsak G. Automated encoding of clinical documents …
  • A Comparison of Electronic Emergency Department Visits and Data Collected Manually During a Field Exercise

    Content Type: Abstract

    To compare the completeness of emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admissions data collected electronically for syndromic surveillance and data collected manually for a field surveillance exercise.
    … To compare the completeness of emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admissions data collected electronically … a public health emergency. Field surveillance staff visited 26 hospitals to collect data on ED visits and … hospital admissions for the 7-day period before the site visit. Of the 50 hospital EDs that report electronic data to …
  • Combining Laboratory Test Orders and Outpatient Visits to Monitor Respiratory Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    To evaluate whether joint monitoring of laboratory test orders and outpatient visits improves the sensitivity and timeliness of alerting during seasonal increases in respiratory illness.
    … joint monitoring of laboratory test orders and outpatient visits improves the sensitivity and timeliness of alerting … counts of outpatient visits and laboratory test orders. Com- bined surveillance was performed by averaging the p- …
  • Using Syndromic Surveillance to Quantify ED Visits for Coagulopathy Cases

    Content Type: Abstract

    In March 2018, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) was informed of a cluster of coagulopathy cases linked to SC use. By June 30, 2018, 172 cases were reported, including five deaths, where 74% were male and the mean age was 35.3 years (… read more
    … healthcare facility utilization, including number of ED visits. Syndromic surveillance was utilized to monitor ED visits related to the cluster, assist with case finding and …
  • Proposed ICD–10–CM Surveillance Case Definitions for Injury Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits

    Content Type: Report

    National Health Statistics Reports, Number 100, January 23, 2017. Abstract This report describes a collaboration between the National Center for Health Statistics and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control to… read more
    … for injury hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits for use with administrative data sets coded using the … diagnosis) codes. The inclusion criteria for an injury ED visit requires the case to have either a principal diagnosis …
  • School-Related Visits - CSTE Environmental Health in School Workgroup

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Most children spend a significant portion of their time in daycare or at school. CSTE's Environmental Health in School workgroup identified these days/hours as a setting for possible "occupational" exposures. The CSTE EH in School Workgroup created… read more
    … note query for "school-related" emergency department (ED) visits using ESSENCE. Search Terms: “in school” or “at … 5. Right 6. Daycare 7. Left 8. Fell 9. Head 10. States 26 Visits by Ages 0-17 Top Syndromes / Subsyndromes 95.3% …
  • Evaluation of Case Detection of Marijuana-Related Emergency Department Visits

    Content Type: Abstract

    NSSP, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surveillance system, allows timely detection of emergency department (ED) trends by matching chief complaint (CC) text or diagnosis (DX) codes to established syndrome criteria [1, 2]. No CDC… read more
    … definition currently exists for marijuana-related visits. Accidental child ingestions and over-consumption of … relative trends and disparities in marijuana-related ED visits. Objective To evaluate methods of measuring …
  • Building an automated Bayesian case detection system

    Content Type: Abstract

    Current practices of automated case detection fall into the extremes of diagnostic accuracy and timeliness. In regards to diagnostic accuracy, electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) is at one extreme and syndromic surveillance is at… read more
    … immediate, and ELR is delayed 7 days from initial patient visit. A plausible solution, a middle way, to the extremes … UT, USA, on 1–2 December 2010. References 1 Que J, Tsui FC, Wagner MM. Timeliness study of radiology and … Symp Proc 2006; 1068. 2 Friedman C, Shagina L, Lussier Y, Hripcsak G. Automated encoding of clinical documents …