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CDC Heroin v3
Content Type: Syndrome
THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC HEROIN OVERDOSE V4 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE. States… read more… Specific terms Inclusions Discharge Diagnosis – ICD-9-CM poisoning Yes 965.01, E850.0 (also included terms with no period, e.g., “96501”) Discharge Diagnosis – ICD-10-CM poisoning Yes T40.1X1A, T40.1X4A (also included terms … -
Emergency Department Surveillance of Alcohol-Related Violence and Injuries to Enable Event Monitoring and Management
Content Type: Abstract
Syndromic surveillance has been used been used as method of surveillance for various events in recent years. For example, post September 11th, 2001 anthrax attacks in New York City, World Youth Day in Toronto 2002, Salt Lake City 2002 Olympics,… read more… EDs during Homecoming weekend, which has become a greater con- cern in recent years. This information may be used to … -
Marketing a Syndromic Surveillance System to Hospital Emergency Departments
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The Oregon Health Authority (OHA), in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, implemented a syndromic surveillance system, Oregon ESSENCE. A critical component to developing and growing this statewide system is… read more… that is both appealing and concise. Oregon’s hospitals come in all shapes and sizes, each with unique approval … -
Canine Tick Diagnoses are a Sentinel for Tick-borne Diseases in People
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To determine if ticks on dogs can provide early warning for tick-borne diseases in people.… which the word “tick” appeared using NC DETECT, 3. ICD-9-CM discharge diagnoses of tick-related illnesses from all NC … 1479 ED visits for the first six months of 2008. An ICD-9-CM code of “Lyme Disease” was recorded 65 times from 34 … -
Analytic Fusion of ESSENCE Clinical Evidence Sources for Routine Decision Support
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Block 3 of the US Military Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) system affords routine access to multiple sources of data. These include administrative clinical encounter records in the… read more -
Spatial Cluster Detection in Case-Control Datasets with the Autonomous Leaves Graph
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Ordering-based approaches [1,2] and quadtrees [3] have been introduced recently to detect multiple spatial clusters in point event datasets. The Autonomous Leaves Graph (ALG) [4] is an efficient graph-based data structure to handle the communication… read more… for case event data: an ordering-based approach. Comm Stat Theor Meth. 2011;40:358�72. 3. Yiannakoulias N, … -
Analyses of National Syndromic Surveillance Data: Real-Time Hospital, Veterans Affairs (VA) & Department of Defense (DoD) Data
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Since July 2004 the BioSense program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received data from DoD military and VA outpatient clinics (not in real time). In January 2006 real-time hospital data (e.g. chief complaints and… read more… (80% inpatient). 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% All S yn dr om es Bo tul ism Hem or rh ag ic Illn es s Ly mph ad en itis … h Sp ec ific In fec tio n Fe ve r P er ce nt o f S yn dr om e Outpatient Inpatient/Admitted Emergency Figure 2 … -
Finding Time-of-Arrival Clusters of Exposure-Related Visits to Emergency Departments in Contiguous Hospital Groups
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Time-of-arrival (TOA) surveillance methodology consists of identifying clusters of patients arriving to a hospital emergency department (ED) with similar complaints within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently… read more… 2011. 2. Tokars JI, Burkom H, Xing J, English R, Bloom S, Cox K, et al. Enhancing time-series detection algorithms for …