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  • The New York State BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience

    Content Type: Abstract

    In addition to monitoring Emergency Department chief complaint data and pharmacy sales as indicators of outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System also monitors information from the… read more
    … mine case resolution, and providing user-level feed- back to the CDC to effect system improvements. BACKGROUND In … mation: patient age, gender, coded patient ID and/or visit ID. Although all 8 alerts were determined to be “false …
  • Data Visualization for Health Surveillance: Current Concepts and New Horizons

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenters Wayne Loschen, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL) Karl Soetebier, MPW, Georgia Division of Public Health Paul Picciano, PhD,… read more
    … for collaborators! §  Contact me at hardisty@psu.edu §  Visit the GeoVISTA Center Website … (e.g., local units, developing nations) §  Lack of IT resources/expertise §  Non-programmers, …
  • Preventing blindness due to diabetic retinopathy in India: Need for a paradigm shift

    Content Type: Webinar

    Estimates suggest that there are 65 million persons living with diabetes in India and 6 million are at risk of going blind due to retinopathy. Recent studies highlight that 45% persons with diabetes are already blind when they present to an eye care… read more
    … factors"to"reduce"risk"of"complica2ons" •  Very"few"visit"an"ophthalmologist"when"referred" 12" … •  20%"advise"re2na"examina2on"rou2nely"at"first" visit" •  45%"stated"that"they"could"not"access"eye"data"of" …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition Development Using Recursive Partitioning Techniques for Highly Dimensional Databases

    Content Type: Abstract

    Seasonal influenza accounts for a high proportion of outpatient morbidity during the winter months. However, influenza case counts are greatly underestimated due to frequently undiagnosed influenza. Electronic medical record (EMR… read more
    … following database tables: age, vital signs, reason for visit, procedures (CPT), and diagnoses (ICD-9). 10-fold … rate, 51 CPT codes, 46 ICD-9 codes, and 41 ‘reasons for visit’ were identified for the final model analysis. The … 1. This model includes Temperature, Age, 8 reasons for visit (Sore throat, Fever, Cough, Cold symptoms, Throat …
  • Increased emergency department presentations for head trauma following media coverage of a fatal epidural hematoma

    Content Type: Abstract

    Previous reports have demonstrated the media’s influence on emergency departments (ED) visits in situations such as dramatized acetaminophen overdose, media report of celebrity suicides, television public announcements for early… read more
    … Each health department independently reviewed their ED visit data from January 2008 (when possible) through August … visits. The head injury syndrome consisted of any visit with a chief complaint of ‘head trauma,’ ‘head … age. The data were analyzed across all sites by week of visit and age group. Results The figure below shows the …
  • Evaluating the performance of two alternative geographic surveillance schemes

    Content Type: Abstract

    Influenza-like illness (ILI) data is collected by an Influenza Sentinel Provider Surveillance Network at the state (Iowa, USA) level. Historically, the Iowa Department of Public Health has maintained 19 different influenza sentinel… read more
    … ‘noticed’ by a surveillance site (and thus having their visit reported back to the IDPH). The Huff model operates by computing the …
  • Automated Monitoring of Asthma Using the BioSense System

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2006, approximately 6.8 million children and 16.1 million adults were reported to have asthma in the US. The CDC BioSense System currently receives data from >540 hospital emergency departments (EDs; 522 send patient chief… read more
    … age group comprised 39% of asthma visits. Below age 19, visit rates were higher among males and above age 19, rates … subsyndromes most frequently associated with an asthma visit were dyspnea (33%) for chief complaints and … using chief complaints and final diagnoses. Seasonal visit rate increases and 1-day geographic clusters found in …
  • Automated Monitoring of Exposures Using the BioSense System

    Content Type: Abstract

    BioSense is a national automated surveillance system designed to enhance the nation's capability to rapidly detect and quantify public health emergencies, by accessing and analyzing diagnostic and prediagnostic health data. The… read more
    … department (ED) visits, outpatient (OP) reasons for visit, and inpatient (IP) reasons for admit were examined … was the patient class with the highest exposure-related visit rate: 14.3/1000 ED chief complaint visits. Exposure-related visits for OP reason for visit and IP reason for admit were 1/1000 OP visits and …