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  • Alcohol-Related ED Visits and Ohio State Football: Putting the O-H in ETOH

    Content Type: Abstract

    According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), binge drinking causes over half of the 88,000 excessive alcohol use deaths and costs approximately $149 billion dollars annually in the United States. Additionally, excessive alcohol use can… read more
    … relationship between alcohol-related emergency department visits in Franklin County, Ohio and Ohio State University … relationship between alcohol-related emergency department visits in Franklin County, Ohio and Ohio State University …
  • Beyond Mortality: Violent Injury Surveillance Using NC DETECT ED Visit Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Violence-related injuries are a major source of morbidity and mortality in NC. From 2005-2014, suicide and homicide ranked as NC's 11th and 16th causes of death, respectively. In 2014, there were 1,932 total violent deaths, of which 1,303 were due… read more
    … violence-related injuries in NC.1 This study examined ED visit data captured by NC DETECT to identify and describe … violence-related injuries in NC.1 This study examined ED visit data captured by NC DETECT to identify and describe …
  • ED visits for AMI, Stroke, ACS & COPD after the Statewide Smoking Ban in Cook Co., IL

    Content Type: Abstract

    Tobacco use is the leading global cause of preventable death, killing more than five million people per year. In addition, exposure to secondhand smoke is estimated to kill an additional 600,000 people globally each year. In 1986, the US Surgeon… read more
    … the effect of the comprehensive smoking ban in IL on ED visits by utilizing chronic disease categories created with … smoking ban in IL significantly reduced the ED visits associated with AMI, ACS, stroke, and COPD in adults … chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) related ED visits in adults in Cook County, IL. Submitted by elamb on …
  • Time of Arrival Analysis in NC DETECT to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records

    Content Type: Abstract

    TOA identifies clusters of patients arriving to a hospital ED within a short temporal interval. Past implementations have been restricted to records of patients with a specific type of complaint. The Florida Department of Health uses TOA at the… read more
    … if TOA could be used for identifying clusters of ED visits not filtered by any syndrome or sub-syndrome. In other words, can TOA detect a cluster of ED visits relating to a public health event, even if symptoms … to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records …
  • Ratio of Excess ED ILI Visits to Seroprevalence, Influenza A/H1N1 Infection, FL, 2009

    Content Type: Abstract

    A seroprevalence survey carried out in four counties in the Tampa Bay area of Florida (Hillsborough, Pinellas, Manatee and Pasco) provided an estimate of cumulative incidence of infection due to the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) as of the end of that year… read more
    … 2009 influenza A/H1N1 virus corresponding to each ED visit for ILI in a four-county area of Florida. Knowing such … 2009 influenza A/H1N1 virus corresponding to each ED visit for ILI in a four-county area of Florida. Knowing such … influenza virus in a population. … Ratio of Excess ED ILI Visits to Seroprevalence, Influenza A/H1N1 Infection, FL, …
  • Comparing Syndromic Data to Discharge Data to Measure Opioid Overdose Emergency Department Visits

    Content Type: Abstract

    Timely and accurate measurement of overdose morbidity using emergency department (ED) data is necessary to inform an effective public health response given the dynamic nature of opioid overdose epidemic in the United States. However, from… read more
    … syndromic surveillance (SyS) systems, while others may have access to more complete, but slower emergency … present overdose morbidity using ED data. These choices may affect the number, timeliness, and accuracy of the cases … Data to Measure Opioid Overdose Emergency Department Visits …
  • Two Unique Syndromic Surveillance Systems: State and Federal Collaboration to Identify Spike in “Visits of Interest”

    Content Type: Success Stories

    The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) uses Health Monitoring Systems’ EpiCenter to collect, manage, and analyze real-time emergency department (ED) data acquired from acute care hospitals and satellite EDs. NJDOH integrates these data into a… read more
    … expert identified a spike in the NJDOH’s hospital ED “Visits of Interest” category based on chief complaint and … team that NSSP ESSENCE identified an uptick in ED “Visits of Interest.” NJDOH’s data analyst assessed the … complaints in two contiguous counties. Although these visits had prompted an alert in NJDOH’s SyS system for total …
  • A Controlled Vocabulary for "Reason for Visit" in Ambulatory Encounters

    Content Type: Abstract

    Objective: To enable improved health surveillance and clinical decision support within ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems.
    … RANKED SLOPE= -1 A Controlled Vocabulary for “Reason for Visit” in Ambulatory Encounters F Mostashari*, N Soulakis*, … encounters; 5,627 (1.9%) had no documented reason for visit. There were 410,633 reasons listed, comprised of 254 …