This paper describes HHC outpatient data and evaluates the performance for early influenza-like illness (ILI) outbreak detection. We compare its detection ability to that of the emergency department (ED) data and of the two data sources simultaneously.
Objective The objective of this study was to determine which chief complaints and ICD-9-CM coded diagnoses from real-time BioSense hospital data correlate well with data from conventional influenza surveillance systems.
This study describes the ability by which total volume of ED visits correlate with influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity in the community.
The Navy Environmental Health Center is developing Health Level-7 data for use in syndromic surveillance activities. The objective of this study is to identify the usefulness of that data to identify and track influenza patients through pharmacy records.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of electronic medical record (EMR) data sources to improve the detection performance of a syndromic surveillance system. This analysis involves examining the temporal correlation between alerts generated from the EMR data sources and alerts generated from the more traditional data sources already being used by the surveillance system.
This study analyzes the critical tracing fraction (fc) to eliminate diseases like rubella when both asymptomatic and symptomatic cases are considered.
We will convene a consultative meeting on chief complaint classifiers and standardized syndromic definitions in Pittsburgh, PA, from September 24-25,
Patientâs chief complaint (CC) is often used for syndromic surveillance for bioterrorism and outbreak detection, but little is known about the inter-hospital variability in the sensitivity of this method. Objective: Our objective was to characterize the variability of a gastrointestinal (GI) CC text-matching algorithm.
The aim of the study is to evaluate the detection properties of different algorithms across a range of outbreak and time series characteristics.
This paper describes and compares electronic systems used by the Department of Defense (DoD) for syndromic surveillance in-garrison and in a deployed environment in Southwest Asia.