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CDC Fentanyl Overdose v1
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Definition Purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected fentanyl overdoses.New or Revised Definition: NewDate Added to ESSENCE: December 6… read more… Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10-CM) and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) … that indicated fentanyl involvement. First, ICD-10-CM and SNOMED diagnosis codes indicating acute fentanyl … Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10-CM) and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) … -
Online Dissemination of National Influenza Surveillance Data
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Infectious disease surveillance is important for disease control as well as to inform prevention and treatment [1]. While influenza surveillance data coverage and quality has improved significantly in recent years due to resource investments and… read more… Stohr K. The global agenda on influenza surveillance and con- trol. Vaccine, 2003: 21(16)1744-8. Further Information: … -
Mulitregional CUSUM Surveillance
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Monitoring sales of over-the-counter products is becoming increasingly common for purposes of public health surveillance. Sales data for anti-diarrheal medications have been used to monitor outbreaks of waterborne Cryptosporidium outbreaks. An… read more… club cardholders. Daily counts were initially assumed to come from a Poisson distribution. Data were transformed to … -
Optimizing Simultaneously the Geometry and the Internal Cohesion of Clusters
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Irregularly shaped cluster finders frequently end up with a solution consisting of a large zone z spreading through the map, which is merely a collection of the highest valued regions, but not a geographically sound cluster. One way… read more… 243-262 [3]Kulldorff M, 1997. A Spatial Scan Statistic, Comm. Statist. Theory Meth., 26(6), 1481-1496. Corresponding … -
Visualization of Syndromic Surveillance Using GIS
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Syndromic Surveillance has been in use in New York City since 2001, with 2.5 million visits reported from 39 participating emergency departments, covering an estimated 75% of annual visits. As syndromic surveillance becomes increasingly spatial and… read more… that they are for reference but are often not implicitly cor- rect when shown in a map product. REFERENCES [1] … -
Talking Turkish: Using N-Grams for Syndromic Surveillance in a Turkish Emergency Department without the Need for English Translation
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Previously we used an “N-Gram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in English for bioterrorism. The classifier is trained on a set of ED visits for which both the ICD diagnosis code and CC are… read more… English Translation Sylvia Halasz PhD1, Philip Brown1, Cem Oktay MD2, Arif Alper Cevik MD3, Isa Kilicaslan MD2, … -
Delineating Spatial Clusters with Artificial Neural Networks
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Multiple or irregularly shaped spatial clusters are often found in disease or syndromic surveillance maps. We develop a novel method to delineate the contours of spatial clusters, especially when there is not a clearly dominating primary cluster,… read more… [1] Kulldorff M, 1997. A Spatial Scan Statistic, Comm. Statist. Theory Meth., 26(6), 1481-1496. [2] M. H. Fun … -
Discrete Data from Electronic Medical Records - Next Generation Data Sets for Syndromic Surveillance
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Traditionally Emergency Department syndromic surveillance methods have relied on ICD-9 codes and chief complaints. The implementation of electronic medical record keeping has made much more information available than can… read more… For example, a gastrointestinal syndrome grouping con- tains some of the following ROS: nausea, vomiting, …