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A Novel, Context-Sensitive Approach to Anonymizing Spatial Surveillance Data: Impact on Outbreak Detection
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The use of spatially-based methods and algorithms in epidemiology and surveillance presents privacy challenges for researchers and public health agencies. We describe a novel method for anonymizing individuals in public health datasets, by… read more… (ED) visits for respiratory illness. Baseline ED visit data were in- jected with artificially-created … -
A Pilot Study of Aberration Detection Algorithms with Simulated Data
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To evaluate four algorithms with varying baseline periods and adjustment for day of week for anomaly detection in syndromic surveillance data. read more… for detecting anomalies in daily emergency depart- ment visit data for 130 hospitals with 6 syndrome categories. … -
Absenteeism Among Employees in a Southeastern Ontario Hospital: A Novel Application of Syndromic Surveillance
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Sickness absence is particularly pronounced within health care organizations where job demands and work environment expose workers to an increased risk of illness and injury, potentially leading to an inability to attend work.… read more… the databases. The conditions/ syndromes within the OH visit data are pre- determined by the system, and classified … -
Comparing Telehealth and NACRS Influenza Activity to Fluwatch Surveillance Using EARS-X
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This paper will use CDCÃs EARS-X to examine Tele-healthÃs potential as an early warning system specifically for influenza-like illness compared to NACRS, as well as qualitatively comparing the resultant EARS flags to peaks in influenza activity… read more… since 2000. For the purpose of this paper, only ED visit portion of the dataset was included in the analysis. … -
A Case Manager Tool for Anomaly Investigation in BioSurveillance
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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… New York, for the years 1996-2005. The record for each visit includes hospital, patient geography … -
A Comparison of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Department Encounters as Data Sources for Detection of Clusters of Lower Gastrointestinal Illness
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We sought to compare ambulatory care (AC) and emergency department (ED) data for the detection of clusters of lower gastrointestinal illness, using AC and ED data and AC+ED data combined, from two geographically separate health plans participating… read more… omitted if they occurred within 6 weeks of a previous visit to the same setting for LGI. Generalized linear mixed … -
Comparison of respiratory, febrile and influenza-like illness syndromes to detect laboratory-reported H1N1 and RSV, Influenza Season 2009–10, New York City
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The New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene monitors visits daily from 49 of 54 NYC emergency departments (EDs), capturing 95% of all ED visits. ED visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) have reflected influenza… read more… reports and 1114 RSV reports were matched by MRN to an ED visit. The majority of influenza reports matched to the FF … -
Where are the data? Accuracy of automated EHR reporting
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Over 300 independent practices transmit monthly quality reports to a data warehouse using an automated process to summarize patient information into quality measures. All practices have implemented an EHR that captures clinical information to be… read more… 3278 patients at 46 practices. Chart reviewers collected visit-based information on patients’ diagnoses, vitals, …